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One goat too many.

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on November 18th 2022. After four days at one house-sit we are this week travelling on to our next property, an hour away, in a tiny village called Lullin, still in the Alps, south of Thonon les Bains on Lac Leman. We leftContinue reading “One goat too many.”

House-sitting in the French Alps

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on November 11th 2022. It’s that time of year when we begin house-sitting in France and our first one this year is in Gervais les Bains in the French Alps, a shorter stay than usual at just four nights but it slotted neatlyContinue reading “House-sitting in the French Alps”

Impressions of Belgium

For the past ten days we have been living on a barge in Belgium. We have visited Belgium only once, some years ago, a weekend trip to Bruges, but now a chance encounter has brought us to a city that we have never heard of in a region that we know nothing about. We metContinue reading “Impressions of Belgium”

Snapshots of a country part two

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on October 21st 2022. As promised this is the second part of our snapshot tour of Britain, and this time we are in England, visiting some quite unique gardens and galleries. We spent a day recently visiting The Newt in Somerset, situated betweenContinue reading “Snapshots of a country part two”

Snapshots of a country

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on October 14th 2022. We have spent the last two weeks travelling around England and Wales, visiting friends and family after we finished our house-sit in North Wales, and what has struck me, as someone who no longer lives in the country andContinue reading “Snapshots of a country”

A singing parrot, a glut of mushrooms and an armchair African adventure

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on September 29th 2022. ‘I think she’s getting to like you,’ I said, as Michael carefully eased Monty the parrot out of her day cage. ‘What makes you think that?’ said Michael dubiously, balancing her carefully on his arm as he walked throughContinue reading “A singing parrot, a glut of mushrooms and an armchair African adventure”

Snowdonia

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on September 22nd 2022. This week we find ourselves up in north Wales, looking after a menagerie of dogs, cats, fishes, chickens and a female parrot rather confusingly called Monty. Before we began our nomadic life on Olivia Rose, Wales was the placeContinue reading “Snowdonia”

Home is where the heart is.

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on September 9th 2022. It’s just over five years since we sold our cottage, bought Olivia Rose and left our much-loved Welsh hills to cruise through Europe. Although we might have left the UK in body, we hadn’t truly left it in ourContinue reading “Home is where the heart is.”

A trip to the Netherlands

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on August 30th 2022. We’ve left the boat for a week and headed north, traveling to pastures new. How do I begin to describe the Netherlands? It’s a wonderful thing when a country takes you so completely by surprise. We’ve travelled much ofContinue reading “A trip to the Netherlands”

The end of the season

Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on August 19th 2022. At the end of the last blog we were wondering whether we had time to carry on down the Somme. The route runs for another sixty kilometres or so to the coast, ending at the charming town of StContinue reading “The end of the season”