House Sitting My Way Through Southern England: Discovering New Places

So there are different platforms out there that you can use to sign up.

Usually there's a, an annual fee.

Sometimes there are additional fees.

You have to, you have to look.

I'm with Trusted Housesitters.

There are other places like Mind My House is, is one of them, and I think there's another one that I'm, that I've heard about, uh, kind of just recently called N- Nomador, M-N-O-M-A-D-O-R.

But these are just different platforms.

You can sign up for them, and you can become a pet sitter, a house sitter.

Most people are going to have pets to take care of.

Sometimes it's just the house every now and again, but more than likely you are going to have some furry companions.

You can filter out just for cats or just for dogs if you don't care.

Sometimes you're taking care of rabbits or guinea pigs or things like that.

So you can kinda choose what you want, at least with Trusted Housesitters.

And what this does is the house owners, the pet owners, the pet parents, get somebody that's been vetted because everybody kinda goes through a little bit of a vetting process, both the people that are asking for you to come into their home and take care of their pet, and the people who are applying who want to come in as a sitter.

Everybody kinda goes through, there's a little bit of background checks and things like that.

So they are opening their home to you for you to come in and stay there, but in return they get their pet or pets taken care of.

There may also be some little things to do around the house.

You might have some plants to water or a garden to water, kinda depending on the time of year.

Sometimes there are farm stays and it might be even more.

So if you are somebody who doesn't mind going out and maybe taking care of some horses, if you're a horse person, you can certainly do this as well.

So it kind of, there's different levels of what you can do.

But what happens is sometimes, like for me, you know, I'm m- looking, you can kinda look at the area of where the, the sit is.

Sometimes you can kinda pick out an area that maybe you wouldn't otherwise go, right? So that's kinda what I did, is I was, I was looking for places maybe that I hadn't been, that I maybe wouldn't otherwise go.

I didn't have a car, and so I kind of was looking for places that maybe I could get to via a train some way.

And a lot of times they'll tell you.