About us

Welcome

Thank you for checking out our blog.  Firstly, we would like to introduce ourselves to you.

We are Peter and Gill (pronounced Jill) and we are now experienced house sitters with excellent references. Gill is now 61 years of age and retired in July 2011 after working for a large manufacturing company where she managed their workplace injury claims.  Peter is now the ripe old age of 63, and he is also retired from a sales management position.  Nowadays he still has a very small company that has contracts with two overseas suppliers of training and assessment products and these are then on sold through representatives in Australia and New Zealand.  

We have always enjoyed travelling and have now visited many countries during various trips.  In 2000 we shifted from our homeland of New Zealand to Melbourne for work purposes.  Besides many trips back across the ditch we travelled extensively within Australia and on several overseas holidays.  It was during this time that we made the decision that we wished to undertake a lap of Australia as "grey nomads".

With the purchase of a new 4wd Nissan Patrol and a large caravan with all the facilities on board we set off from Melbourne in July 2011.  By late October 2012 we had travelled 52,500 kilometres and visited every state, the most northern, southern, eastern and western points and met lots of very interesting people.  It was during this time that we also initially house sat for some home and pet owners.

We decided to share this blog of our house sitting experiences - we hope that it might answer some questions for you and give you an insight into our experiences and a new and different way of travel.

What are we doing now?  We returned to New Zealand in December 2013 to spend time with our families and friends.  We have a home in Mt Maunganui, New Zealand (the favourite holiday destination for many people) and when it hasn't been rented out to holidaymakers we have enjoyed living in it.  In addition we have completed house sitting assignments in New Zealand.

What is next?  We will spend from May to November 2014 in Australia house sitting at a number of homes in various areas.  We will share those experiences throughout the year.

Our Assignments

2011  -  2012  -  2013  -  2014  -  References  -  The Future