Willkommen auf der Seite für Reiselustige mit kleinem Budget, für Sprach- und Kulturinteressierte und alle hilfsbereiten Abenteurer!
Workaway bietet euch die Möglichkeit, günstig durch die ganze Welt zu reisen, Sprachen und Kulturen zu erforschen und neue Menschen kennenzulernen. Gegen lediglich vier bis fünf Stunden tägliche Arbeitshilfe rund um Haus und Garten, stellen euch Gastgeber kostenlose Unterkunft und Verpflegung zur Verfügung.
Falls ihr Interesse an einem der zahlreichen Gastgeber habt, könnt ihr gegen eine einmalige Anmeldegebühr von 22 Euro (29 Euro für Paare) zwei Jahre lang freien Zugang zu allen Gastgeberkontakten bekommen. Alles Weitere könnt ihr dann mit diesen persönlich klären.
Da Workaway lediglich Kontakte vermittelt, ist die Anreise eigenständig zu organisieren. Dies betrifft auch Visa, Krankenversicherung etc., falls erforderlich. Wer hierzu fragen hat, dem kann vielleicht in unserer Link-Sektion geholfen werden.
Unsere Ziele sind:
die Förderung des interkulturellen Verständnisses und der Kommunikation zwischen Menschen aus aller Welt
die Realisierung von Reise- und Arbeitserfahrungen in fremden Laendern, auch fuer Reiselustige mit geringem Budget
die Möglichkeit für jeden, Fremdsprachen zu erlernen und diese in einer Gemeinschaft des Zusammenlebens zu praktizieren
Wie Workaway funktioniert:
Workaway stellt eine Liste von Gastgebern weltweit (Familien, Alleinstehende, Unternehmen etc.) zur Verfügung, die sich bei uns registriert haben, um freiwillige Helfer für alle möglichen Bereiche zu finden. Garten- und Landarbeit, Tierpflege, Hilfe im Haushalt, Einkaufen und Kochen, Bau- und Reparaturarbeiten oder Kinderbetreuung sind nur einige Beispiele.
Entdecke das Land des Flamencos, der Stierkämpfe und der einzigartigen Strände! Einen köstlichen Fino mit einer Tapa geniessen kannst du in Andalusien, wo viele Gastgeber Workawayer willkommen heißen.
Das Land, welches mit Cabo de Roca den westlichsten Punkt des europaeischen Festlandes hat, ist vor allem durch die Algarve bekannt. Neben den beiden großen Städten Porto und Lissabon, den Azoren und Madeira beinhaltet Portugal viele weitere kulturelle Sehenswürdigkeiten.
Außer für den Fußball, die Mode und die leckeren Pizzen und Nudeln ist Italien auch durch seine wunderschönen Strände berühmt. Die Toskana, Sardinien oder die geschichtsträchtige Hauptstadt Rom sind immer eine Reise wert!
Besondere Anziehungspunkte Kanadas sind die Nationalparks mit ihren wunderschönen Landschaften und die nette, offene Art der Kanadier. Die Niagarafälle, die Rocky Mountains oder Städte wie Vancouver, Toronto und Montreal - einfach sehenswert!
Das Land für Abenteuerlustige und Naturfreunde - als Hauptattraktionen gelten wohl das Great Barrier Reef, der Uluru Nationalpark mit dem Ayers Rock und den Olgas und der Kakadu Nationalpark. Wen es lieber in die Städte zieht, kann in Sydney oder Melbourne nach einer Arbeitsmöglichkeit suchen.
Die Heimat der "Kiwis" ist bekannt für spektakuläre, schöne Landschaften, bestehend aus gewaltigen Gebirgsketten, dampfendenVulkanen, weitläufigen Küsten, tief eingekerbten Fjorden und üppigen Regenwäldern.
Charakterstarke Weine, Baguette und facettenreiche Käsekreationen sind eine gute Grundlage, um sich gestärkt auf eine Kulturreise durch das Land der Künste zu begeben! Ob nun Louvre oder Eiffelturm in Paris oder Normandie und Bretagne - das vielseitige Frankreich zieht sowohl Stadt- als auch Landmenschen an!
Besuche das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten! Die USA lockt vor allem durch ihre riesigen Nationalparks und nie schlafenden Metropolen - eine Spritztour auf der Route 66 oder einen Sonnenuntergang am Grand Canyon? Komm und beiß in den "Big Apple"!
Die angebliche Heimat des Whiskys offenbart Naturfreunden an den "Cliffs of Moher" ein spektakulären Blick auf den Atlantischen Ozean! Zudem sollte man sich den alljährlichen St. Patrick's Day vormerken und dort sein grünes Wunder erleben!
Genieße traditionelle Teestunden und komme dem Geheimnis von Loch Ness auf die Schliche! Während Schottlands Ebenen zum Wandern einladen, kannst du in London den Buckingham Palast oder die Wachsfiguren bei Madame Tussaud's bestaunen! Wem das noch nicht genug ist, der besucht einfach ein Fußballspiel der besten Liga der Welt!
Getreu dem Spitznamen "Regenbogennation" ist Südafrika kulturell sehr weit gefächert. Wer hier Urlaub macht, erfährt eine aussergewöhnliche Mischung aus Kulturen, Sprachen, Städten und einzigartiger Flora und Fauna. Ob in den Metropolen Pretoria oder Kapstadt, an den weitläufigen Stränden oder gar in einem der zahlreichen Wildschutzgebieten und Nationalparks - Südafrika garantiert jedem sein eigenes Abenteuer!
Du willst in die Fußstapfen zahlreicher mythologischer Helden treten und das antike Athen erkunden? Oder dich in das illustre Nachtleben stürzen und bei Sirtaki-Tänzen Ouzo und säuerlich-frische Speisen genießen? Sowohl auf dem Festland als auch auf den zahlreichen Inseln wie Kreta erwarten dich stets besonnene Hellenen!
Als Schwelle zwischen Europa und Asien ist die Türkei ein Schmelztiegel aller möglicher Kulturen und Einflüsse. Istanbul und Ankara sind große touristische Anziehungspunkte. Wer der Hektik entfliehen möchte, findet mit Wanderregionen wie etwa Lykien und dem Paulusweg eine entspannende Alternative.
We are Rosie and Simon, an English couple living in France since 2007 with our two boys aged 9 and 10. We speak some French and the boys are fluent!
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Our home is a 0.8ha smallholding on which we have a children friendly eco-gite (green holiday home). On the smallholding we have a large organic vegetable/fruit garden, a polytunnel and a young orchard. We have a mixture of animals which are reared as free-range and naturally as is practical, including pigs.
We are somewhat out in the sticks approx. 25km from Vire and Flers, the nearest railway stations. However the area offers fantastic opportunities for many outdoor pursuits; walking, cycling, pony trekking, rock climbing, paragliding etc. Slightly further afield are the D-day Landing Beaches and Mont St Michel (1-1.5hrs by car). For those without transport we have bikes you can borrow.
If you enjoy the quiet of the countryside mixed with the chaotic life we lead plus lots of animals around then this may well suit you. We can cater for one person or a couple at any given time. We eat meat but can cater for vegetarians although I think veganism may be a culinary step too far (sorry). We have Internet access with Skype and an Internet phone with free calls to much of the world including Europe, N. America and Australia/New Zealand.
Hours average 5 to 6 hours per day with weekends and evenings your own, but this can be adapted to suit all i.e. work weekends, days off in the week.
We, 32 (♀) and 35 (♂), open-minded, nature and adventure loving, are proud to call ourselves owner of a beautiful old Gründerzeit house in Leipzig.
Colourful, divers and open – that’s life in Leipzig. The city is famous for its vivid cultural scene with its countless clubs, pubs, museums, cabarets, libraries, opera and “Gewandhaus”. Nevertheless hectic you won’t find in Leipzig. In the midst of many parks and surrounded by a beautiful lake- and riverscape you can also let your soul tangle and enjoy the solitude of a 500.000- inhabitants-“village”.
Located in the multi-cultural eastern part of Leipzig our house is by tram just 5 minutes away from main station & city centre. It was built in 1910 and is full of living history and spirit. Unfortunately this liveliness has given way to emptiness and greyness within the last years as nobody took care of keeping the house intact. To make it completely habitable once again there is much to do (see below “Arbeit”).
Our dream is to breathe new life and colour in these ancient walls and the garden on the rear side of the building and make it to a place for alternative way of living and artistic freedom.
If you want you could help us. It would be our pleasure to welcome you in this small oasis.
Besides: Traveling to our house in Leipzig is very easy and not so much expensive. You can come by plain (low budget airline Easyjet or Ryanair) to Berlin and then by train to Leipzig or directly by plane to airport Leipzig/Halle (low budget airline TuiFly). We could also help you in organizing your trip.
Few years ago I lived in Budapest,but always wanted to move back to countryside to get closer to my dreams.What are my dreams?Simple:a farm where all the animals can live in full respect and harmony with nature.
I worked as a volunteer in an asylum for dogs before I moved to Andráspuszta.
So this farm has now more than 200 (bio organic) fruit trees,5 dogs,2 cats,30 chickens,but in a few months will increase the number with 2-3 cows,chickens and alpacas.But till than I need to build and renovate safe houses for the animals and a small building for preparing cheese.
The area where the farm is a quiet agricultural area near to a village called: Bölcske.Few families live hear in harmony,not more than 20 people
My partner and I live in a rural area in a large farmhouse. There is a lot of wildlife and we are surrounded by a working farm. However, we run our own business from home which supplies pet foods to small shops.
We are a spanish/german couple with an 4 years old boy and a 2,5 years old girl, running a little guest house on a farm with ecological and partly permaculture garden (vegetables and olive trees) in inland Andalucia. The farm is situated in beautiful surroundings in the Grazalema natural park which provides great mountain and walking area.
Steve is a great host (unfortunately I didn't meet Lesley).
That will be one of your most canadian workaway experience. Go fishing or with the canoe, make fire, pool billiard, good food... just do whatever you want in exchange for 5 hours a day!
Please continue this project, it's amazing
Chris
Our two weeks with Mona and our little family of backpackers, travellers, and locals was our best time in Norway. We cooked tons of food, fixed a leaky roof, painted, built things, split and stacked firewood, but most importantly we coexisted in joy. Thank you to Mona and the Evanger family for welcoming us and to Mauro, Tomasso, and Valentina, our wonderful fellow workawayers.
I stayed here for almost 3 weeks and really enjoyed my time there. Wonderful house and location, great kids and lovely, generous people. I worked in the garden, prepared for redecorating inside, with the animals, helping in the B&B and milking the cows on the farm. Enjoyed learning about the farm, the history of the house and local area and exploring the countryside with Dotty the dog. Brilliant food and accommodation too. It was my first workaway and a fun, enjoyable experience.
I spent three weeks in Karen\'s house, and it has been a really interesting exerience for me. She\'s very friendly, and everyday, when she was back home from work, she used to talk to me and to another guest in order to help us to improve our English level. Her daughter is nice as well, and her mother too, so it was really a pleasure to help them to do little housework, and it was a pleasure even greater to cook something for them, since they enjoyed Italian food. This was my first workaway experience, I\'m satisfied one hundred percent, I have to say thank you to Karen and her family for that.
Staying with Ari and Freydis was great! They are indeed very nice and it is fun to work with them! I absolutely recommend getting involved with them, with their amazing kids and all their animals(cows,calfs,hens, and sheep now). If you are looking for experiencing authentic Icelandic farm life in a nice family and surrounded by fabulous landscapes this is it!
Well I\'m a man of few words, so I\'ll keep it short. Very welcoming and generous family, really to feel like part of the family is special and thats how I felt so thank you Hughes. Karens cooking......ooh la la, I\'m still dreaming about it and the banana bread at 11\'s, It was like dining at a restaurant, no exaggeration. In fairness Ged, you know your way around the kitchen too. By God the food was unreal, the dinners, the desserts, the break time treats it was all so tasty my mouth is watering now just thinking of it. Not to mention the free flowing beer and wine!. Anyway I suppose I should mention the work. It was grand, good and varied!. Ged is a good laugh to work with, he\'ll take the piss and thats good, makes for good banter during the day. The house is good and cosy too! So Hughes thanks again for a great first workaway experience,I know many more workawayers will have as good a time as I did.
Captian Halpins was my first workaway experience, and Trish and Ian made it wonderful. They were friendly, warm, and helpful, and clear about the tasks! It was such a pleasure working with them, they are amazing people! I would recommend this experience to anyone!
I was only a week with Sue and Pete, but it was enough to have good times. Enjoyed myself with sarcastic humor of Pete learned a lot of English classes with Sue, that and a very patient person.
They are really lovely people and if you have the opportunity to stay with them for a while, do not miss.
Ah ... and delicious food! Both are very good cooks.
Hope to visit you again!
We just finished a month-long stay with these folks, and it was one of the most joyous, heartwarming, and eye-opening experiences we\'ve had.
The most hospitable hosts we can imagine. There were plenty of fun projects to be done...handywork, cooking, helping with the little one (who, by the way, is the best 1 year old either of us has ever met), watching the new kitty...but so much room for creativity that we found ourselves engulfed in the projects as though they were our own.
Fabrikschleichach is a tiny town (population 121, truly a hidden gem) and we got to meet many of the townspeople. They were all very welcoming. Make sure to be there on a Monday for the town gathering at the local restaurant...good times indeed! The scenery is beautiful, and there are plenty of trails around for hiking. Bamburg and Nürnberg are close, they took us to each for a day.
We love our new Franconian friends, and can\'t wait to return!
My stay at Warwick and Cassia\'s home was very great,
they\'ve helpt me a lot for my arriving in australia and give me good contacts.Their daughters are very cute and their home is nice.
I\'m still in contact with them and I think see them again before I come back in France
My friend and I stayed with Lukas for 2 weeks and an amazing time!!!! Not only were we lucky to have such good weather whilst there but we had a great time doing some gardening and best of all taking the huskies for walks and the one off sled run. Lukas is a great host with a beautiful house and garden. It was a really amazing and interesting experience and I would recommend this to anyone. (sorry for the late feedback Lukas!) May one day visit again! hope all the huskies are doing well:)
I stayed on the farm for 3 weeks with my girlfriend and absolutely loved it! Carlos is an awesome man! He is extremely accommodating and just a kind loving soul. His full time helper Victor is shy but another great person. Not far from the beach, but set back in the jungle it is a very enjoyable place to stay! I can\'t say enough great things about it!
