It was so good to get back travelling again in 2022. Having returned to Australia in November 2019 for a … More
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2019 in review – how much did we spend?
Well, it’s the end of another year and time to review our travel budget and travel costs for the year … More
Travel costs – how much did we spend in July/Aug/Sept 2019
How much have our travel costs been so far this year? This post is a continuation of previous posts from … More
Travel costs – how much did we spend in Apr/May/June 2019
This post continues on from the report we did earlier in the year documenting our travel first quarter travel costs. … More
6 months down – how much has it cost??
We recently celebrated 6 months since starting our roving retiree lifestyle on 9th April 2017 and thought it would be … More
Our first six months as roving retirees…
Six months into our new roving retirement and we are loving it. Having sold virtually all of our possessions we … More
Travel costs – June 2017 (France and the UK)
One of the reasons for doing this blog is to show people that it doesn’t have to cost a fortune … More
Our first month of being roving retirees
It’s been one month since we left Australia on our full time roving retiree lifestyle. How much has it cost…
We’re famous – well almost!!!
“How can you afford to travel full time??” friends and family have asked us. Well, part of the answer is in an article
What a year!!! (part 1)
Who knew that as we set off on November 5th 2015 what a wonderful, exciting, adventurous, enlightening, educational year it would turn out to be for us.
From St Albans to the Via Verde…
We had a day to fill in having completed our last house sit in the UK looking after Trigger the Cocker Spaniel. On Monday we would be flying to Girona, Spain on the Costa Brava for our next house sit. We decided to spend the afternoon wandering around the northern London suburb of St Albans. It turned out to be a great decision.
Preparing for our Excellent Adventure…
Glenn, for many years, has had romantic ideas about spending 6 months living in a sugar cube house on a Greek Island and the remainder of the year living in Australia.
“It will never work! How can we afford it? Won’t we get bored? What about our house, jobs?” was my response.