Adam Here: Glasgow, Scotland, has always felt like the home I had never visited until 2022. My grandparents immigrated to Canada from Glasgow in the late 60s, and I often heard stories of their trips ‘back home’ or stories from visiting family. We visited...
In July of 2022, our family of five, while housesitting in Europe was able to use Trusted House Sitters in Switzerland to find a house sit for two weeks in Zurich. We were really excited when the house sit in Switzerland came up since the hotspots for Trusted...
“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” – George Bernard Shaw, 1942 (We’re going to imagine George was lumping Canada into “America” as a continent and the rest of the UK into “England”...
We spent six months house-sitting in Europe in the summer of 2022 with our three boys (8, 10, and 12 at the time). It was always on our bucket list to visit Europe, but the cost of hotels for that length of time was only reasonable if we stayed far outside of the...
When we got off the ferry from Portsmouth, England to Caen, France, my cousin Ash picked us up to drive us to Chateau de Lalacelle – a property in Alecon, France (in Northwest France – rural Normandy) that he and his partner, Terry, purchased to restore...