Helpful and handy, honest and reliable married English couple. Living in Spain, travelling in Europe, with small, female, non moulting dog. Non smokers and one tee totaler!

About this sitter

Reliable couple with plenty of practical skills. Aged 55 and 64 (hopefully you can tell which is which) we like cycling and I (Janie) love walking, especially if there are hills. As we are based in Jávea, Spain and have a campervan as transport we would drive to sits rather than fly in. We feel this provides better flexibility for the owner.

Why they want to house sit

A base and something to occupy ourselves with when away from our home in Spain. We have a camper and have travelled extensively in Western Europe but are finding we prefer to feel a little more grounded but still explore new places, house sitting gives us that.
During our last house sit we got re acquainted with guinea pigs....which was lovely!

Their experience

Please read this reference link I could not add to our profile https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JqFOw-Oj9DyonG97jtQcCFjtwi6FdKVaAMZvp-aI8zM/edit?usp=drivesdk
Experienced with houses,we have renovated a few. Experienced with animals, our sits have had fish, guinea pigs and a cat another was three dogs (small to large) another a tortoise. Previously horses, cows and dogs of course. We owned geese at one property, great fun, so fowl are fine as well.
I was a cleaner in private houses for many years, those people are now my friends.

What can they bring to the assignment

Honesty, reliability, practicality, common sense. The comfort of knowing we would spend most of the time at the property, no compunction for long day trips or evenings out. We are very security conscious, and have lived without near neighbours and one house we owned we had to ford a river at times to get home, not got the vehicle for that now though!
We enjoy the company of animals, they rely on us for so much, being there for them is vital, a two way street as they give so much back. I (Janie) don't eat meat and Bob does not eat so much now. We are both non smokers and in fact are very intolerant of the habit. I also do not drink alcohol and Bob is a moderate drinker.