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Michelle & Maruan

Experienced caring couple to put your mind at ease

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Our experience

Part of our housesitting story is that we met while Michelle was caring for a farmhouse in Tuscany seven years ago and now we're married! We both have extensive house- and pet caring experience. Pet caring has included dogs, cats

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Reviews (20)

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Giulia

Michelle and Maruan are a very special couple, other than being perfect and attentive sitters. It was super easy to organize everything with them because

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Felanitx, Spain · 29 Mar - 05 Apr 2025
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Sarel

Michelle & Maruan were a lovely couple who made us feel our cats were in safe hands. It did not take long for Bonnie & Clyde to settle with them. They were

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Whitehead, United Kingdom · 05 Jul - 13 Jul 2024
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Janet

Michelle and Maruan were excellent pet and housesitters. Due to various commitments on our part it was a bit of a hurried handover but that didn’t faze them

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Dingwall, United Kingdom · 02 Jun - 19 Jun 2023
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Wendy

Michelle and Maruan were wonderful pet sitters. They are such lovely people and they took great care of my two kitties, even pilling one of them when she

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Albuquerque, NM, US · 14 Sep - 01 Oct 2022
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nona

We did not meet Michelle except via skype before leaving as a surprise family wedding pulled her back to the USA. So Maruan came alone to begin with

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Skibbereen, Ireland · 21 Dec 2018 - 11 Feb 2019

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Dieter

Michelle and Maruan are best house-sitters ever!!!. Maruan has house sat for our farm in Italy numerous times in the past 15 years, as well as volunteered his help in running the farm and hosting our guests. With his green thumb, he was especially helpful in taking care of our gardens and with his open personality he tended mindfully to the needs of our guests. Michelle, who we met later on, also volunteered her help on the farm. Her special gift to us and to our guests was her delcious cooking which nurtured our bellies and our souls. We left our home for them to take care of several times. They took care of our cats, dog, house plants, gardens and the general upkeep of the property with great dedication. They were very respectful to the environment and with their sense of esthetics they have enhanced the beauty of our home. Its always been a joy to come back to a clean and orderly space and spend some extra time with their gentle and open-hearted personalities. I recommend them highly as house sitters.

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25 April 2015

About Michelle & Maruan

We are a caring couple who love the adventure of staying in one place long enough to get to know it a bit.

Michelle

Age60OccupationPsychotherapistLives inWestport, Ireland
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Maruan

Age57OccupationShiatsu Teacher/Therapist

Why we want to house sit

Caring for a home, its animals and its gardens, and being a part of its routines, allows for a completely different experience and way of being with a place. Coming to know some of the places of the world and its people in this way makes

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