House sitting in Rochester- what to do??

i can't help with this but would like to make a suggestion. When you go through passport control in the UK, don't tell them you are there for a housesitting job. Just tell them you are visiting friends. I know someone who went to UK to housesit, told the immigration people, and she was refused entry because to them housesitting was a job and she didn't have a work permit. She told them she wasn't getting paid but they didn't care. After a nice long flight to the UK, she had to turn around and go back a few hours later. At her own expense.

Wow, thanks for the suggestion, I would have never known about this.

Do you mean High Halstow? This is a village on the Hoo Peninsula, which is relatively remote. There are a couple of nature /bird reserves nearby, but in March, it could be bleak and windy there. It is flat, being close to the Thames. The nearest rail station is Rochester, which is 30 + minutes away by bus. Central London will be c 1.5 hours away.

I am sure that the people whose home you are visiting will be able to provide you with transport details.

Hopefully, by mid March the risk of snow should have abated, but we have had snow at this time of year.

Rochester Cathedral is worth seeing as is Chatham Dockyard and Canterbury.

There is also a castle in Rochester, right next to the cathedral. Other places to visit, depending on exactly where you'll be and what transport you'll have, are Reculver and Richborough for the Roman ruins, Margate for the gallery and Whitstable for the general niceness. It can be a bit windswept in March along the North Kent coast, but it could be fabulous spring weather. Pot luck I'm afraid.

I’d just like to know how you get a house sitting job like that? That would be a great thing to do and get to see a different country! Have fun!

High Halstow is about six miles from Rochester but feels fairly remote so you will want a car otherwise I suspect you’ll feel quite cut-off. There does appear to be a regular bus service into Rochester but there’s so much of Kent to discover and explore that a car would be useful.

Have you read Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations? Those marsh scenes, with the hulks of the prison ships? Magwith the convict? Pip growing up on the North Kent marshes? It’s that area. Although it’s not as bleak and marshy these days.

"I’d just like to know how you get a house sitting job like that? That would be a great thing to do and get to see a different country! Have fun!"

And also officially illegal.