Housesitting in New Zealand (Once tried you’ll never look back!)

Housesitting in New Zealand (Once tried you’ll never look back!)

Housesitting in New Zealand. I honestly can’t think of a better way to see the country.

Regular followers of my newsletter and podcast will know that we (my husband, Brian and our kids, Sonny and Tessa) are no strangers to housesitting.

As well as trotting around New Zealand, staying in beautiful kiwi houses, we have spent months housesitting around Europe when we travelled the world with the kids for a year.

In the last seven years, Brian and I have clocked up twenty-seven house-sits worldwide. 

It’s official.

We are now professional house-sitters. At last. An accolade.

 

 

Husband and wife Liz and Brian Deacle. Hosts of the very popular It's a Drama Podcast!

At last, Bri! Something to brag about!! 

 

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The best place in New Zealand to visit? (Shhh…keep it to yourself)

The best place in New Zealand to visit? (Shhh…keep it to yourself)

Sixteen years ago, fresh off the plane from the UK, I first set foot in Taranaki, New Zealand.

And I was gutted.

Grey, cloudy and miserable.

Not at all what I signed up for on the immigration website and not a bloody hobbit in sight.

My husband had been offered a plumbing job in New Plymouth Taranaki, and to fulfil our visa requirements, Taranaki was to be our home for the foreseeable future.

I told myself we’d give it six months, and then we’d be out of there. Off to find greener pastures where milk flowed from rivers and the sheep pooed honey.

Sixteen years later, we’re still here. We never left Taranaki.

Here’s why…

 

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Farewell. We’re leaving New Zealand (and going to…?)

Farewell. We’re leaving New Zealand (and going to…?)

You can now JOIN our Secret Patreon Community! https://patreon.com/itsadrama

It’s been quite a year for us. 

If you have followed the podcast for a while, you will know that we have suffered two big losses. Both Liz’s mum and dad passed within 6 months of each other.

And before you know it, it’s Christmas time. Which is always the hardest.

Determined to celebrate Christmas in a way that we have never done before, in a country the four of us love, we have decided to leave New Zealand to spend a month-long-once-in-a-lifetime family break in…?

Did you know we now have a SECRET podcast? Behind The Drama is a fabulous member-only podcast where Brian and I take you deeper into the more personal stories about life as a married, entrepreneurial couple.

A couple who juggle travel, family, business, mental health and marriage.

A couple who have two adult kids that still live at home.

But that’s okay.

Because they don’t mind being slaves.

Honest.

If you are of a certain age who dreams of throwing conventional life into the air and swapping it for optimism, yes-ness, adventure, and a ton of much-needed knicker-wetting humour, then this is the podcast for you – It is real, it is honest, it is tough, and it is JUST what you need.

Trust me, you LOVE this! Find out more by going to https://patreon.com/itsadrama

 

Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.

Liz and Brian x

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Tears in the Toilet. Returning to New Zealand

Tears in the Toilet. Returning to New Zealand

Liz and Brian are back in New Zealand. They flew from Chiang Mai via Bangkok and China and, thirty hours later, were home in Taranaki, New Zealand. Tucked up in bed.

But flying home to NZ didn’t go smoothly. In fact, it was a sodding fiasco.

What started as a dream-come-true-flight ended with wet knickers and tears.

And not only that, the food on the plane was sh*t.

Sit back and listen to the story of the return flight 

Enjoy!

Liz and Brian x

 

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