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02Oct2024
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How to adopt an open heart and mind while navigating cultural differences

Putting ourselves in new situations, countries, and cultures isn’t easy. It’s brave. When we do it with a willingness to learn instead of fix, we reap the benefit of a wholehearted experience that challenges our perspective, gifting us with a new ...

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24Sep2024
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How To Travel Light Long Term: 20 Tips + Packing Checklist

Once you learn how to travel light as a long-term traveller, you will never return to consistently carrying large suitcases. Packing light is not ...

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18Sep2024
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Symptoms that reveal you’re turning into a true workawayer

It always comes as a surprise when you realise you've become one of those people: not just a traveller, but one who has completely adopted the ...

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09Sep2024
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Reasons To Do a Workaway Project in Your Hometown

If you’ve never considered travelling in your home country or signing up for a Workaway project in your hometown, here are the reasons why you should!

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Solo, single and in your 30s: Travellers, isn’t it time you settle down?

Single? Travelling alone? Hitting your 30s or getting well into it? Isn’t it time you settle down? Don’t you ever get lonely without a partner or ...

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Free volunteering: How to volunteer around the world without paying ridiculous agency fees

So you want to volunteer abroad? Good on you! We love that you are looking to give back. But you’ve gone online and you’ve seen some organisations ...

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Journey with less: Woman who never travels with more than 5kg

She is taking the term travelling light to a whole new level – how Susan manages to travel with a bag weighing just 5 kilos…

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Volunteering & Van life: How to Make the Most of This Travel Trend

Following the pandemic, the soaring popularity of van life shows no signs of slowing down and there are many reasons why we've hopped onboard this ...

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Volunteering & Working Opportunities: Crew / sail around the world for free

Mention sailing and the chances are most of us will conjure up romantic images of wind in the hair freedom on the waves. If you are eager to discover ...

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6 Ways Sustainable Travel Can Help With The Planet’s Health and Yours

Instead of counting countries, absorb each city fully. Instead of hostel hopping, dive deep into conversations with locals. Travel in your own ...

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The Beginner’s Guide to Workawaying with Animals

Looking after animals while travelling is definitely on many workawayers' bucket list. But there's a lot more to those fuzzy cuddly moments with cute ...

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8 reasons why house sitting is the way to see the world

Want to stay in an idyllic house for free at your dream destination? Grab all these wins with one of the many house sitting projects on Workaway. ...

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The Whole World in Two Tiny Hands: Homeschooling with Workaway

Kids are the best teachers of life and to teach kids is both a challenge and an adventure. We have homeschooled our children for six years. During ...

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