Dogs I've met

Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, is a major tourist destination for northern Europeans and Spaniards (The Canary Islands are part of Spain). 

While most of the tourists head for the south coast, a major secondary concentration is at Puerto de la Cruz, on the north coast. 

Here are our house-sitting pets from 2019!

They are a more conventional bunch this year, with no farm animals – they are virtually entirely dogs and cats, with just one picture there of fish in a tank.  Usually I wouldn’t bother adding a picture of fish (the interaction isn’t deep), and there were other fish that I haven’t included, but for our house-sit in London the fish were the only pets that had to look after!  

2019 is here!  And I'm looking forward to another year with travelling and house-sitting. 

I've spent a major part of 2018 travelling and house-sitting around Australia and New Zealand, and house-sitting really means pet sitting, so I’ve looked after many different animals during the year.  This picture shows most of those pets (there's a few more odd ones such as some extra chickens and the occasional fish that I haven't added).

We are house-sitting in Mountain River, in Southern Tasmania.  Our temporary pet this time is Kaya, the Alaskan malamute.  

Mountain River district is in the Huon Valley, and it's named for Mountain River, which flows from the alpine plateau of Wellington Park. The main peak of Wellington Park is Kunanyi/Mt Wellington, which forms the dramatic backdrop of Hobart. 

It’s a very beautiful area – a rural and wild valley surrounded by beautiful high mountains.

This house-sit is just one night in a house in Marcoola on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.  Like our other house-sits, this one was organised through Trusted House Sitters.  And, like our previous house-sit in Cazorla, Spain, this one is an accommodation business called  Glanymor Cottage, with rooms that are rented out through Airbnb. There are no guests this weekend, and the owners are going away to nearby Brisbane.

We are currently house-sitting in Cazorla, in southern Spain. This house is a small hotel called Cortijo los Abedules, which incorporates three self-contained units of various sizes. It's the end of the season now, and the owners have shut the business down while they've gone away for their own holiday, so we are looking after their house and their dogs.

I'm in Ireland now; in fact, I've been here for two weeks.  I'll have more to say about Scotland soon, but for now it's time to introduce Ireland.

We are house-sitting an 1839 farmhouse in Ballycarrigeen Lower, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland.  Our charges this time are a dog, a cat, a rabbit, and four chickens. 

Our house-sit in Melrose is a large, typical British house on a larger-than-usual (for Britain) block of land in a new rural subdivision on the edge of town.