May I ask, you only do month long sits? So if you don’t see month long, you don’t apply?
For international sitting we wouldn’t go for less than a month, ideally that would be one sit, but we’d be happy to do 2 x 2 week sits…even more ideally, we’d stay for more than a month!
We have sat near Bordeaux in the past and loved the food, wine and weather.
We flew as coming from NI had limited options. I hope you enjoy your new adventure. Make the most of it!
Damn. My Dyslexia strikes again. It is rather amusing typo though I agree.
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Thank you all for some great replies, as its our first time sitting in france, think we will fly from gatwick, we have a car available to use at the sit, which is very kind of them, we will fly to bordeaux then get train to bergerac where the HO will pick us up
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Hope that your first out-of-country housesit goes well. We have completed in housesits in a bunch of countries - Canada, US, UK, Portugal, Greece, Belgium so far. Super fun. Met some wonderful people. I’d concur with earlier advice. Fewer housesits. More competitive. Listings go quickly. Need to be responsive and flexible.
Question: are you an EU citizen? If not how do you do back to back in Spain and France without having Schengen regulations trip you up. I am spending time in the UK to avoid this but would love to know if others have a valid (read legal) solution.
Hi @TRockwell Yes I am a UK/Dutch dual citizen and my husband is German so fortunately we both have freedom of movement in the EU.
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You can do back to back sits, they just can’t total over the 90 day limit. There aren’t many ways to get around having to do the schengen shuffle, unfortunately. I spent 10 years doing it, so it’s possible and not particularly difficult, but it can get old.
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