Success Stories

We have just had the most fantastic experience with our workaway Julien, We mapped 136km off road mountain bike routes in the Cape St Vincent national park in the W Algarve for our new Mt bike holiday website, along with a two day photo shoot, him specializing in skids and jumps and have a crazy nice time. Thanks Julien we look forward to seeing you soon

My school used to have a swedish Workawayer. Her name was Vendela. She‘s very nice easy-going and friendly and can helped my students practice English a lot.Some students have more confidence in speaking English. When she left She stayed for a month. When she left, we all miss her

Through Workaway, we have received three wonderful volunteers over the past two years. Two stayed with us for over abut five months each, and a third continues to help us from a distance. All three have made invaluable contributions to our grassroots work with women victims of violence.Many of us in developing countries do not have the resources or capacity to reach out for the help that we need. Our work is tiring, and we often feel that we are all alone, trying to solve huge problems.For a small NGO like ours, workaway has helped to connect us to the world.Volunteers have brought us fresh ideas and fresh enthusiasm.Thank you for this amazing service- please keep doing what you are doing.

We have had a great time in Oaxaca Mexico. It was our first workaway experience, and we could not have asked for better.Ineke and Jan were incredible. We built 2 river rock raised gardens and put in a river rock path.Ineke is a wonderful lady that we were very bless to get to know.We spent about 2 1/2 months here in San Agustin Mexico, a small town about 10 miles out of Oaxaca Mexico.

This year was the first year we had workaway volunteers on our campsite. Because every single one was a joy to have here,. They were all an asset to the team, and we loved learning from their country, languages, and culture. Just as they did for their french language skills, France as the country and local food and drinks. We‘re looking forward to lots of new experiences. The whole team

My first experience with volunteers from 'Workaway" couldn't have been better. Melanie and Sorin were totally wonderful. We hit it off immediately and they were always willing and polite - seeing ahead what needed to be done and working beautifully together. They were a joy to have around and I cannot recommend them more. They know they are always welcome to return - but, not to work!

As a first time ‘workawayer‘, I was overjoyed to experience 2 weeks at aChateau  in France. I was delightfully surprised to discover the other, younger, volunteers were just as nice and intelligent as could be. I had my own room (Wow!!), was given plenty of opportunities to explore the area and enjoyed the satisfaction of doing any and all jobs assigned to me. Julia, as a host, was so wonderful - she asked for a ‘job well done‘ and it was a pleasure to do just that. This was an excellent 1st experience and I shall certainly continue w/ this program. Thanks to all....

We put an advert  on the workaway website at the end of February and are very excited now, because we have help for the whole summer. We hope that everybody who will visit us have a great time and enjoy their stay in our beautiful country. Thank you so much for this idea. Cheers, Dorothea

We had a great workaway couple stay with us this winter for two weeks. They had just returned to the United States after three months of workaway adventure in Europe. In addition to great painting work in our home, they entertained us with their stories about working in different homes during their adventures abroad. They enjoyed the comforts of our home and our great college town and even took advantage of free memberships at our local health club. We look forward to other volunteers in the future!

We have hosted students for two weeks at a time. Because we are between Harvard University and MIT next to Boston we have many things within walking distance. Usually we save all the work to done over a weekend project with lots of time for sight seeing and to accommodate my work schedule. We are lucky to have met such wonderful people from all over the world.

we have had nothing but complete success with people coming to help in our home in tuscany and we are in touch with everyone and so far we have been invited to one wedding of a couple who got engaged whilst on their travels, workaway has changed our lives and is continuing to do so. thanks to everyone for all your fantastic efforts and what you have bought to our home. all the best sue and chris and the boys

I registered with workaway last year and started getting replies from around the world soon after. We accepted Larissa Herrs application and she arrived from Germany in October. Larissa has been an extended member of our family, my son adores her and she is like having an older sister in the family. Larissa has been my saving grace while I have worked big hours off farm, keeping the house and property and Hunter under control!! I am so grateful that workaway has put us in contact as the experiences we have had as a family have truely been amazing while we have had Larissa in the house. We work, socialise and enjoy life together. I will be devasted when she leaves but our memories will last a lifetme.

Very new to Workaways we took the plunge of inviting strangers into our world and our visions.Our experience has been a revelation, our volunteers were motivated, eager to learn and were always willing to do tasks without being asked.David, our very special volunteer was filling in time before university. So far, so good. .

I volunteered with 5 friends at an eco-project near Osoyoos, British Colombia. It was an amazing experience giving us the chance to get involved in landscaping, building, digging, sawing, interior decorating, painting etc etc. Learnt so much and had an incredible time working with the different volunteers from all around the world. Numbers ranged from 8-18 volunteers and we had a great time getting used to sawdust toilets and working hard together.

I currently live with a family in the suburbs of Chicago that I found through work away..and it is the best thing i've ever done! I am originally from a small town in New Hampshire, and I wanted to live in a more city-like part of the world.....Since I am a hairstylist and makeup artist, I chose Chicago because It has a reputation to be very diverse and possess a creative flare. Which I have experienced first hand is true, I am so happy that I found this family who is so generous for me to live with them and in exchange for my stay I am a nanny for two wonderful girls...I don't feel like I "work" for them at all...More so just part of the family as the girls big sister..It's wonderful and I would definitely recommend to travel through this organization if you do your research and find somewhere that would appeal to you! Good luck (:

The Year 2010 ¨ A Work-away´s Host New Experience¨Shall we do it, I asked Martijn my husband anxious. He frowns and hmmmmm´swell ok, lets go for it. I feel a nervous and enthusiastic feeling. Yes I look forward to meeting new people and their cultural behaviors, living so secluded and in a very quiet paradise is great, but sometimes you just miss some interaction with others human beings. February 2010, after being overwhelmed by the lots of reactions within two days after placing our profile, our first one and a half workawayers came with the intention of staying for five days. Taz and here 2 year old amazing daughter Freya stayed for three weeks, Taz here vegan life style was very interesting we tried out lots of vegan recipes and being busy with the children and the garden and the house was what we did, Taz very good in baking bread filled the house on many occasions with the lovely smell of here freshly baked bread, she wrote the recipe down for al the work-awayers to come, here own legacy in our family. After two weeks the adorable Jiri and cheery spunky Lenka joined the group with their dog Barbie, they came al the way from Czech and were happy with the Sun when they arrived. Sitting at our table with people from England, Czech and Holland in Spain, sometimes outside, was unbelievably cosy and familiar. When Taz and Freya left, we still miss Freya, Jiri and Lenka had a few weeks alone with us before Matt an Dani from New- Sea-land came for a short two week stay. I still often think about Lenka an Jiri and how Jiri´s eyes would sparkle after eating a nice dinner, words of thanks wasn´t needed, hihihi . Lenka would make our house so warm and cosy and what a strength she had, they both worked so so hard with all there soul and heart, we have lots of respect for there drive!!!! Matt the bare foot walker from the country side, he learned us about, coach surfing, dumpster diving an fire baths and bucket showers, lots of ;-) sports we didn´t know about before Matt, you could put him in any place in the world and he would survive, what a though bloque, hmmmm except after to much drinking the one time, Luckily the care taking Dani was at his site, to pamper him and take care of his hangover, what a sweet and very clever girl. She had lots of fun with Kiki and made, she was very creative two very nice table-clothes, we still use them, and the sushi meal she an I made was yummie!!!! After they left Jiri and Lenke stayed for a short week and there were lots of tears saying goodbye to each other, Kiki really loved Jiri and, Kiki still talks about wanting to see Jiri and Lenka. A few days after they left, Joseph from america came with loads of children books for Kiki and american cookbooks for me, so sweet his mom made the package to thank us to give her son, 18 the opportunity of being away from home in Spain but save at the same time. Joe was great with Kiki, did al kind of larp games with Kyrian, they were whole armies and knights , so cute !!! Joe was open to learn a whole deal of new abilities and experiences. Kyrian and I left for a while to Holland and Joe stayed at the Cortijo with Martijn and his best friend who had come over from Holland, they had a real great time all men!!! After Joe we had a little break for the summer. But in august Boyd our friend from down-under Australia came after living in London for quit a while. Boyd was a sweety always cheerful and peaceful, liked every type of food, was great with all of us and it was as having no stranger in the house, we are still enjoying the extra white walls he painted and he did a lot of driving for us to the beach etc. and enjoyed the trips every minute :-) Boyd stayed until Veronica from the U.S.A. arrived in sept. Boyd left , and we still miss him very much, to give Vero the opportunity to grow into here function as nanny she really looked out to be doing, not having lots of countryside skills. She was planned to stay until jan. 2011. She sadly ,after giving here lots of attention , had to leave in october. We had to put in so much more as that came back to us, she was´nt able to leave her preoccupation‘s with here lover, mom, friends back home and this resulted in lots of tears , stress and acting out. Not able to provide any professional help, we are but Hosts, we both decided to say goodbye, all our best wishes go out to here, although she took to much!!So the work away experience is maybe what you make of it yourself, you learn so much as a host and as an worker, I could only advice everybody to act with respect, honesty and love, and then workawaying is and makes your live that more interesting and challenging. I wish every body a great Workaway Experience !!!!!!!!!SteffieWe Will Continue the Work Away Experience in 2011 with lots of joy!!!

When it comes to meeting new people I must confess that I‘m a bit of a nervous wreck doing it. That awkward moment when all eyes are on you and the unrelenting pressure to please your peers before the ice finally breaks is one of life‘s experiences that never seem any less painful each time. But it‘s when the broken ice melts away that the warmth and natural beauty of discovery is uncovered. I plucked up the courage to extend my travelling by utilising my Workaway account - and arranged a 2 week stay on an EcoFarm. There were volunteers from all over the globe, all with their own stories to tell and knowledge to share. It was hard remembering names, just like your first day at school. But hour by hour, day by day every person at the farm became a most familiar and friendly face. One realises what they have obtained once they leave their stay - new friends with new places to stay, places to re-visit, new skills to take home. It‘s made me more confident, more resourceful and more connected with the world than ever before. Thanks workaway for providing a simple and transparent system that makes all this possible.

I spent a few months with several different "workaway" hosts in the South of Spain last year and returned home totally rejuvenated. My lifetime dream has since come true and I have recently purchased a "little" (20000m2) piece of heaven, in the mountains in the very south of Spain. Needless to say, there is a whole lot of work to be done, tending all the different fruit trees, olives and nuts aswell as renovating the tiny little cassita that stands halfway up "my" mountain.
I‘m also planning to start several small projects such as a children‘s language class, an open air movie theatre, etc..
So pretty soon I‘ll be changing my membership from "a workawayer" to a new "host" on your books.
I‘m really looking forward to meeting all kinds of different people from all over the world, each bringing their own particular skills and adding a multitude of cultural knowledge and colour to what will hopefully become yet another succes story for your brilliant "initiative : THANK YOU "WORKAWAY" !!!

We have hosted three different workawayers so far, and each experience has been truly wonderful. The guests have offered not only a working hand, but a glance into a different background and culture, and broadened our horizons.
While it certainly requires a bit of a leap of faith to offer to host someone you have never met, we can highly recommend this incredible win-win set-up - hosts win, as they get help and, in some cases, friends. Workawayers win because they get free room and board, but more than that, they get to experience life in a different culture.

Hi there
We live in NZ. In 2009 we spent 8 months travelling in an old motorhome Europe, and doing Workaway. We went to six hosts over that time in Italy, Austria, France and England. We helped out in a variety of ways, and in return we received amazing hospitality and experiences. We have lifelong friends, and are recommending them to others we know planning to travel. It was a really fabulous way to explore the world. None of the tourist experience; real life in real villages! We are planning to return in 2011, basing our trip on the Workaway philosophy, and of course using this site.
There is a slight difference in our case however .... I am 55 years old and my husband 61! As one host cheekily put it, we are the oldest workawayers they have had! However she continued by saying that as a consequence of our age we have lots of skills, and a good work ethic.
Workaway is an excellent idea. We are so glad we found it by chance before we set off for our European adventure. We are spreading the word throughout NZ - to the young and the "slightly older", but fit!
Thankyou for your brilliant idea.

I love Workaway!In August I went to stay with a host near San Francisco and I had an absolutely brilliant time- I was able to make friends, get some local advice and stay in an amazing place fairly cheaply- things that would have been difficult if I was staying in a hotel (or even a hostel).Next summer, I hope to stay with a host in Mexico- I can‘t wait.I‘m only 17, and I really do love this site. Thank you so much.

We had the two most wonderful young people from France come and visit. For the first week or so they did sight seeing and walking around Boston. For one weekend they helped us paint my sister‘s entire house to lift her spirits after the death of her precious daughter. I know it sounds sad but work away will forever bring a smile to our faces as the two young folks worked so hard, laughed at the way we spoke and did an amazing job with their spirit. I was a little worried at first but now that we have had such a positive experience I am open to having more people use our home as a base in the US and I have begun to travel myself and look into doing my own work away ! I joined as both a host and workawayer ! Thanks for all you do!

We‘ve been hosting volunteers at our Greek island guesthouse for four years. We‘ve had such great experiences with all the people who have come to help and always look forward to meeting new people who are exploring the world. We never cease to be impressed with our volunteers, they‘ve all been amazing people that inevitably become an integral part of what we hope to offer our guests while they are here. Of course, much more is exchanged between host and volunteer besides work and food! We hope volunteers leave our farm with more knowledge than they arrive with and we are always learning!

Well we are 2 months into our first "farm stay" at self-fed farm in central NY, usa. (actually only 3 and a half hours from our hometown!) and the experience so far has been perfect. It is so gratifying to see your work pay off and look at the beutiful land you helped groom. I am eating new healthier foods that my wife has been trying to push for years... and it really is delicious! Alli and the girls weed together everyday, the girls love harvesting and taking rides in the tractor! It is too bad she is planning on selling this awesome property due to natural gas drilling, because we would happily stay forever! Looking forward to everyday here.

Hi world of workawayers, It‘s the first time I‘m actually sitting down to write about our adventures. Ever since the first Workawayers arrived last year around November (or was it October???) it has been an international whirlwind adventure. Each one of you who visited and worked with us has enriched our lives and let the house evolve from rough diamond into glistening beauty. Just this early afternoon Juan and Jennifer waved goodbye and flew off to Barcelona after having been here  for 5 weeks, David left last week.... who knows we might all meet up this summer in the Pyrenees! Coming monday a new Workawayer will join our project.....Via this short note I want to thank you all!!!!! Please know that whenever you are in the area a cardamom/chocolate/fresh ground mocca-beans coffee is awaiting you...............with open arms.With love, Mieke, Elly & Nicky

I spent a month in South India in an eco resort helping with tourists during January 2010, I had a great experience and I met very nice people.It was my first experience and it was great.Thanks workaway!

So far we have hosted 3 workawayers. What an amazing scheme! We have finally been able to tackle some decorating and gardening with their help. They have been lovely people and I would recommend the scheme to anyone. Just wish this scheme had been around 20 years ago when I was backpacking. Now we just need to find a host who will take my family of 4!!

Thanks to Workaway and team for your fantastic website. we have had a stream of really sweet people staying and helping at our Quinta  - Kate and Rich from Bumbury Australia (two weeks flying time away), Jake from the Land of Lincoln (Illonois), home of the horseshoe sandwich - a dead ringer for a young Johnny Depp!! Now we have Greg and Izzy from Poland who are finishing our version of the Cheeky Chapati Cafe. After the summer heat we look forward to lots more friends - there is a downside though - the Aussies have invited us to their wedding next year and aparently you can‘t drive from Portugal to Australia!!!!

We have just hosted our first Workaways, Katie & Angela. Feb/April 2010 They have been fantastic help and we hope all our Workaway visitors fit in as well as they have done. We have new friends to visit and welcome back to us in the future. Great exchange we look forward to meeting more friends from Workaway soon.

My first workaway experience was wonderful! I worked on a stud farm in Wales. I stayed with another girl and we kept each other company and had a lot of fun cooking our dinners. We followed the daily schedule and fed the horses twice a day and cleaned out the stables. We also did a lot of cleaning in a rental house and other maintenance activities. The couple who hosted us were great and we enjoyed breakfast with them and tea time and lunch! They have years of experience hosting students and volunteers from all over the world. They are also great help with language learning English and Welsh! It is a beautiful area to enjoy on days off with wonderful coastal walks. You can even see the sea and sunsets from the property. A thoroughly enjoyable experience

We get many inquiries from Workaway. Only two couples visited us so far. One of them were an English French couple who teach English. They were excellent teachers and the children enjoyed the whole duration of their stay. We expect more people like them in the future.

It is always a privilige to have motivated volunteers at our nursery. Each time we can teach a little about sustainability and bamboo growing. We learn new recipes, a little Italian, Spanish or Kraotian. About traditions and the way people in other parts of the world keep their vegetable gardens.

My boyfriend and I spent two months in a villa in Italy managing an all-inclusive yoga retreat. We found this job on workaway and it was a great experience for us! It enabled us to learn about Italian country-living, taking part in very traditional/old-fashioned-type tasks as well as sharpening our management skills and giving us something to put on our resumes. We made some great friends and learned a lot from the whole experience, I‘d say it was a success!

I registered a month ago, and I've already got two placements booked... In Spain and Chile! :) Workaway becomes part of your lifestyle.. :) ♥ Goodluck everyone....

We used workaway for the first time last year and hosted 4 young volunteers from Latvia who stayed with us for 4 weeks. They were also new to Workaway so we had a few teething problems but all in all it was a good experience.We had no idea what to expect but they, Sanita, Yanis, Kaspar and Viola, were very hard workers and we were happy with the amount of work they carried out, They were also very ingenious and came up with some great ideas. We intend to host more volunteers this year.

A year ago I signed up as a host for workaway. Since then I had several workaways staying with us, some of them students taking some time off to travel or professionals in their sabbatical year.From the social point of view, it is nice to meet people from different part of the world, share thoughts, experiences and opinions. All of our workaways have been extremely nice to my 3 children and were very well accepted by them.Regarding the jobs they can do, the best is to be flexible and see what skills they have and how to use these skills. There are lots of university degrees and excellent professional skills in computer, languages or health who want to get their hands dirty and like to check out hard, physical work. But it is hard to find someone who really has experience in handy jobs such as building, carpentry etc.At the moment I have a lovely German-American couple helping me with household, children and making a beautiful mosaic terrace.

Tawnie  came to us from Arizona. We loved her! Our two daughters became very attached to her, and sent her back to Arizona with pictures of green grass and Scottish trees! Thank you Tawnie and Workaway..

I joined workaway a a host looking for people to help with my eco project a I was overwhelmed by the amount to do after my partner and I had split up, I have had a number of helpers some fantastic some I was glad to see the back of, but our major success story is Dave and Georgia contacting us through the scheme. From the outset I knew that this was different! Dave is an very talented carpenter and lovely guy and Georgia his girlfriend is one of the loveliest people I‘ve ever met! As my circumstanes changed and I had to come back pretty much full timeto the UK; They have now pretty much taken over overseeing the project and living there, even looking after my dog for most of the time while I cant be there! I may otherwise have had to have her put down :-( Work Away is great!! As long as you are clear with any helpers before they come about what you expect from them and they are honest with you about what they can do, then it should all work smoothly. and maybe you‘ll be as lucky as me and get some new amazing friends and colleagues too!

I lived my first exchange in Kerry (Ireland), with a lovely English family. I spent two months(spring 2009) helping with their poly- tunnel and vegetables beds. Also helped painting the house and homeworks.They was lovely with me, introduced me in the irish culture and help me with my English.I was very lucky in meet this wonderful hosts, now I have good friends in Ireland.

I joined last monday and 2 days later, I hade 2 good contacts.

I find the website very EFFICIENT
The only thing is that I feel sorry not to have known it before ....

I would suggest a few pages in different languages in order to be known WORLDwide.. (its coming.... Workaway :))

Congratulations
the 18 euros are really worth investing

After being let down by two travel buddies last summer, i was left thinking what am i going to do. I study architecture and had spent the summer working in an office and other various jobs and really needed a break. I decided to just bite the bullet and travel alone. The Euro against the pound was pretty strong but i felt as a 21 year old female i didnt have many other choices than to travel in europe as a first time experience of travelling alone.My lack of funds and friends lead me to work away. I sent out about ten personalised messages to various hosts in Spain, Italy and Greece and ended up getting many responses. I eventually chose to work at a Farmhouse Hostel in Italy. As soon as i got there i knew it was the best decesion i had ever made. The place was literally breath taking, and the people were relaxed and generous. I think the host/volunteer ethos will lead you to these kinds of people. The work was as advertised and very enjoyable to help out and make peoples holiday more enjoyable. I met countless amount of people from around the world and i now feel i could stay anywhere and someone who i met would have a bed for me. If your thinking about workaway but unsure then try it , something that makes you scared can end up being the best experience of your life.

Ten extra pairs of hands...I register on a site called workaway.info earlier in the summer.  The deal is that you provide food and accommodation, and your volunteers will work for 5 hours each day, 5 days a week. I had no idea how much interest there would be with a project like ours…  but quickly discovered that a calendar was necessary to organise visitors.Up to today we have hosted Jess, Rosie, Sian, Caro, Helen, Rachel, Rosie (2 - our research shows that 66% of English women are called Rosie), Esther, Matt and Andrew… ten people…  and only three people have ever left!We started in June with individual visitors - though the house was often full with family, friends or the Global Agents for Change (team of 20 riders plus film crew). We doubled our numbers when Sian and Caro were here at the same time… then Rachel arrived as well. Caro and Rachel have formed a crack baking team - they’ve really shown us how far you can go with the new oven - with a constant production of cakes and pies to keep our energy levels up.Currently we have Rosie and Esther here too … they had been volunteering at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales for the past year.  I have heard a lot about CAT so it’s wonderful to have visitors who have spent a considerable amount of time there.  It’s been really great to compare notes with them about all sorts of eco technology - high and low.Sian is leaving today. She has worked like a trooper and is incredibly strong - she also blasted a lot of my students’ stereotypes about women… her job back in Australia was working in explosives in an iron ore mine - and her ovaries are fine!* Sian single handedly shifted tonnes of rubble away from the kitchen & we suspect would have dug her way back to Australia given too long. We now have a cellar with lighting and a concrete floor, walls in the hallway, stripped and varnished floors in all the bedrooms, a hot shower, washing machine, oven and freezer - (all post Sian developments). She’s been great fun to spend time with and we’ll really miss her sense of humour.  Our plots to keep her here have so far failed - (finding a Czech for her to marry - for example) but we hope she’ll come back some time.It has been really useful seeing how the house operates with 7 visitors… though Matt and Andrew (also from Australia) have their own camper van so I didn’t need to find a bed for them. Andrew has contributed way more experience in chopping wood than I was expecting from a design specialist!Over recent weeks we’ve eaten some really fantastic meals (though, now, cooking for nine, people are a little more daunted by the task!) and been introduced to the idea of desserts (not at all usual for us two). We’ve heard lots of new music and been educated in many different ways. By the end of October we’ll be down to one or two visitors and things will quieten down for mid winter - I can’t now imagine  with only us here!

Thank you Workaway, I had a wonderfull experience in Arizona with Betty and Rusty, wrangling in there ranch and discovering the life and legends of the old west!!!now Workaway is part of my life style!!!

We‘ve been hosts for various volunteer organisations for the last 20 years. I suppose by now we‘ve had well over 500 stay with us and they‘ve all helped either to run our business or build the Quinta itself. We‘ve learnt an awful lot from them and we hope that they in turn have learnt from us too. Obviously some have been better than others, but many have come back several years in a row and many more are now our friends - which bodes well if we ever want to take a holiday! This year it‘s to Mexico to stay with Pancho and Liliana who came to us for a two week stint and stayed a year and a half .....; I make no bones about the necessity for hard work or longer hours than other hosts. However, honesty pays off and it‘s far better that volunteers know what they‘re getting in to and no-one receives any surprises. In return for the longer hours though there are advantages in that we‘re flexible within reason with the time, the place itself is very beautiful,with a good atmosphere, and there are lots of activities for volunteers to make the most of in their down time.Every year is a success, (as we‘re still here), but this year was particularly good as far as volunteers went. First we had Tosten from America, then Brandyn from Canada, Tim and Paul from the UK, Marie Pierre from Canada again, Heather from the States, ("Unh hunh"), Belinda from Australia, Matt from New York and Melissa from Maine ... and it‘s still only September. We‘ve normally had more than this during the year but this crowd have been so good, so helpful, so willing and such fun to have around that it‘s made the whole Quinta hum with life and laughter and the hard work that‘s had to be done has seemed easier, more enjoyable and more satisfying.With our season now winding down we can start to take a look back over the last 9 months or so and see what‘s been achieved both physically and mentally here. It‘s good! Better than that, it‘s bloody marvelous! I‘ve seldom got to this stage in the year and felt such happiness, and a whole lot of that I attribute to the wonderful people we‘ve been lucky enough to have had help us throughout the year. I hope that some of them‘ll get to read this and understand the appreciation we feel for all they‘ve given us.

My friend Heather and I went to work on a lavender farm in Normandy,  for a week in September. It was the most incredible experience ever! The owners of the farm, were so nice and welcoming. Working in the lavender fields was lovely too, surrounded by that wonderful smell. Bob taught us all about the process of distilling the flowers into oil, and Corey gave us so many good ideas for visiting places in the nearby area. Every night we all had dinner together and laughed and talked over some amazing dish or other (they were able to accommodate my being vegetarian and Heather vegan) and, of course, incredible wine. If you‘re interested in working in northern France at all, i HIGHLY recommend it. A few points of advice: it was kinda cold by the time we went in mid-September, and I hadn‘t brought many warm clothes, so either going earlier or just packing more would be better. Also, we brought bikes, which was lovely, but the roads around there are CHALLENGING for biking. Actually, that doesn‘t even begin to describe it. Just prepare for a workout.

I just found this site through and am blown away. You have created a truly unique community. There are sites like this but none which include such a wide spectrum of opportunities. Not only that but your site is easy to navigate & very informative. I want to go tell everyone I know about it.
Again, Thank You!

I spent a month volunteering at Sanilles, Spain and had an amazing time. We did so many activities and I felt like I was part of the family. I learned to cook so many amazing dishes and practiced my spanish (although It is my first language). This experience was priceless and I plan to continue volunteering all over the world.

Our first Workaway volunteer has just left after a month with us. Elise was
from France and helped us with the horses, our vegetable garden, pond
project and painting. During her time here she visited the Centre of
Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, took a boat trip out to the bay to
see the dolphins and wildlife, walked the coastal path from Aberaeron to New
Quay, went by bus to Cardigan and spent many happy days in our local town of
Aberaeon with our other volunteers. Our next Workaway volunteer arrives on
the 2nd of October. :)

We recently had two great Aussie guys staying with us for a couple of weeks helping us with many jobs on the property. They are both great workers superb company and new friends for life.If any hosts out there are lucky enough to get these two young guys ......you will not regret it!Thanks to Rob and Charlie.....you are both welcome anytime.

Our first two workawayers have been brilliant. Thanks so much! As well as being a great help with getting stuff done on our project, showing them around has really helped me re-appreciate where we are here.Many thanks!