While we were staying in Newport, Wales (https://idealcaretech.com/wonderful-wales/), Mark found a wonderful festival nearby in Merthyr Mawr. Put on by the Street Food Circus, the Forest Feastival was a fantastic day. The feastival runs for 6 weekends in April and May, so we were lucky… Read More »Feasting in the Forest
Cymru Fendigedig Next up, Newport, Wales, and a housesit with the most adorable German Shepherd, Freddi. Newport is in Southern Wales, not far from Cardiff. (Cardiff gets it’s own post, it was so cool.) We happened to be in Newport for King Charles III’s coronation.… Read More »Wonderful Wales
After leaving the Hadrian’s wall area (https://idealcaretech.com/really-old-things-sheep-and-peacocks/) we headed further into the Lake District. Famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains, the Lake District is also associated with William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, and John Ruskin. Carlisle – Castle, Cathedral, and the Cursing Stone Though just… Read More »See the Løveli Lakes
After nearly three months in Scotland, we headed south. We had just finished a housesit in Saltcoats, Scotland with two wonderful dogs and had about two weeks before our next sit in Wales. One of the bucket list items for this trip was to walk… Read More »Really Old Things, Sheep, and Peacocks
Spring in the UK is lambing time. So many lambs! According to National Records of Scotland, sheep outnumber Scotland’s human population by over a million. And March and April are lambing time where that population goes up substantially. We were on the Isle of Arran and… Read More »It’s Lambing Time!
It’s hard to know where to begin; Oxford is just amazing. Architecture, history, authors, movies, it’s all around you. Whether you are familiar with Oxford through the Morse TV show, Harry Potter, Narnia, Discovery of Witches or all of the above they barely scratch the… Read More »Oxford, City of Dreaming Spires
So our first stop in the UK was Slough. Known for… the location of the the fictional Wernham Hogg paper company in the UK version of The Office. It’s also the home to Sir William Herschel (1738-1822 ) who is credited with discovering the planet… Read More »Slough? Why Slough?
Iceland in January?? Yes, Iceland in January. Yes, it was cold (though it was much colder in Oxford). And, yes, it was dark; at that time of year there’s only about 5 hours of daylight. Mark and I agreed that we wanted to take this… Read More »In the Land of Ice & Fire (well, mostly ice)
We loved our time in Belize, but it was nice to be back home in Georgia for a while. We got to see friends and family, regroup, and plan for the next trip. While in Belize, we had decided that 2023 we would travel to… Read More »2023-Planning Our Year in the UK &Europe
We had our first housesitting assignment lined up for end of April through beginning of October in Teakettle, Belize. Teakettle is a tiny town in the Western part of the county in the rainforest. We knew Belize also has beautiful beaches and the world’s second-largest… Read More »Go Slow, But Keep Moving