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In over seven years of full-time travel, I’ve stayed in a lot of Airbnbs. These are some of the hosts I remember as being exceptional and why.
What was I thinking when I booked this place? Is this a question or an exclamation? Both fit. I knew I didn’t want to be in the centre of Ao Nang, loud crowds, thumping music wasn’t my scene (even if the cheap beer was.) But Krabi, the larger town, seemed just that bit too far away, so I looked for something in between.
This post is a little out of sequence. You left me looking after cats in Hungary, now I’m falling out with longtail boats in Thailand. I will talk about my arrival in Krabi in the next post – but this story insisted on being told first.
Why I didn’t start travelling full-time until my sixties
Regrets, I’ve had a few … quite a few in my case. One of them is not trying cat sitting earlier than I did. I waited until year six of my travels to join the agency Trusted House Sitters and it took quite a few months after that to pick up the courage to apply for my first sits …