Book Two
How We Actually Travel Europe Long-Term
The Honest Guide to Slow Travel, Housesitting and Belonging
Sally & Gary · Timeless Wanderers
The Practical Companion
The Exact System Behind Our Slow Travel Lifestyle
Eleven chapters covering everything from how we choose a base to how we manage the 90-day rule — the framework we built after several years of getting it wrong first.
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“You don’t need a perfect plan to travel Europe long-term. You need to stop overcomplicating it.”
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Inside the Book
Eleven Chapters. One System.
Each chapter answers one question we get asked constantly — written honestly, with the mistakes included.
- Why Most People Overcomplicate Long-Term Travel — and the spreadsheet that lasted three weeks
- How We Choose Where to Go — living somewhere versus visiting it
- How Long We Stay (And Why It Matters) — the case for thinking in weeks, not days
- How We Move Between Places — without exhausting ourselves in the process
- How We Find and Choose Accommodation — walkability, monthly rates, and housesitting
- How We Plan Around the 90-Day Rule — the Schengen rule explained simply, including the reset calculation most guides get wrong
- What a Normal Week Actually Looks Like — the Tuesdays nobody photographs
- Housesitting and Why It Changed Everything — fifty-plus sits, two platforms, what we learned
- The Mistakes We Made (So You Don’t Have To) — moving too fast, packing too much, comparing ourselves to others
- Creating a Sustainable Long-Term Travel Lifestyle — rest, routine, and what actually makes it last
- Putting It All Together — plus a full readiness checklist in the appendix
Is This Book For You?
This is for you if
- You are planning your first long-term trip through Europe
- The Schengen rules feel confusing or intimidating
- You want a practical framework, not just inspiration
- You are curious about housesitting but do not know where to start
- You want to know what mistakes to avoid before you make them
This isn’t for you if
- You are looking for a city-by-city guidebook
- You only travel in short, fast-paced trips
- You want a rigid step-by-step itinerary to follow exactly
- You are looking for budget backpacking advice for under-25s
If you have not read the first book yet, the two work even better together — the story and the system, side by side.
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Who we are
Sally & Gary — 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. The spreadsheet lasted three weeks. We have done more than fifty housesits since, spent multiple seasons in Tuscany, and found our way to Albania and Montenegro by accident and stayed by choice. Everything in this book is based on what we have actually done — including the mistakes.