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Two books about long-term travel in Europe — one that shows you what it feels like, one that shows you how to do it. Now available together for less.
Sound Familiar?
Long-term travel in Europe looks complicated from the outside.
The Schengen rules. The visa questions. The accommodation puzzle. Where to base yourself, how long to stay, how to make the money work. The more you look into it, the more it seems like something that requires months of research and a perfect plan before you can even think about leaving.
We felt exactly the same. We arrived in Europe with a colour-coded spreadsheet, bookings made three months in advance, and a timeline that was almost entirely wrong within the first three weeks.
What we discovered — slowly, and mostly by getting things wrong first — is that long-term travel in Europe is considerably simpler than it looks. It does not require a perfect plan. It requires staying longer than feels necessary, and being willing to let a place become familiar.
The moment everything changed was when we booked a place for a month instead of a week and discovered we were paying half the nightly rate. By the second week, the neighbour had invited us in for a drink, we knew the shortcut to the market, and we were, briefly and genuinely, part of the street.
The 90-day Slow Travel Starter Kit
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Section One
The 90-Day Rule – Simply Explained
Plain-English explanation of how Schengen actually works — including the reset calculation most guides get wrong — with a visual timeline.
Section Two
A Sample Year Planner
A full month-by-month example showing Schengen time, UK houesits, and Balkans reset periods – so you can see how the year fits together.
Section Three
Your First Housesit — Getting Started
The two platforms we use, how to build a profile that gets approved, and why being older works in your favour more than you might think.
Section Four
The Slow Travel Packing List
Built specifically around long stays, washing machines, and carry-on only travel. Based on what we actually pack after years of getting it wrong first.
Section Five
Your First Step — A Simple Checklist
The things worth doing before you leave, in the order they matter. No overwhelm. Just a clear, honest list of what to sort before you go.
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90-day rule explained clearly – Sample year planner – Housesitting getting started guide – Slow travel packing list – First step checklist
We bought the large bottle of olive oil. It meant we were staying long enough to finish it. It meant we lived here, at least for now. And something quietly shifted.
Gary & Sally · Timeless Wanderers
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Book One
The Real Secret to Long-Term Travel in Europe
The story — what slow travel actually feels like
- Why most people rush Europe and how to stop
- The 90-day Schengen rule explained simply
- The real cost of long-term travel — the honest numbers
- Choosing your base and why it changes everything
- Life outside the Schengen zone — UK and the Balkans
- The hard days nobody posts about
- Travelling well after 50 — energy, health, and pace
- 50+ housesits and what they taught us
Book Two
How We Actually Travel Europe Long-Term
The system — how to actually do it
- Why most people overcomplicate long-term travel
- How we choose where to go — and why it matters
- How long to stay and what longer stays give you
- How we move between places without exhausting ourselves
- How to find accommodation that makes daily life easy
- What a normal week actually looks like
- The mistakes we made so you do not have to
- How to build a lifestyle you could sustain for years
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Who we are
We are Gary and Sally — Timeless Wanderers.
We sold our home, our cars, and most of our possessions in Australia and headed to Europe with a colour-coded spreadsheet and considerably more luggage than we needed.
That was several years ago.
The spreadsheet lasted three weeks.
The travelling has not stopped since.
We have done more than fifty housesits across the UK and Europe, spent multiple seasons based in Tuscany, and found our way to Albania and Montenegro by accident and stayed by choice.
We write about what long-term travel actually looks like — not the highlight reel, but the ordinary Tuesdays, the hedge-trimming afternoons, and the neighbours who invited us in for a drink because we had been around long enough to be worth knowing.
Everything we share is based on what we have actually done. Including the mistakes.