Blog posts by Alicia

• Using Workaway

• about 6 min
• 24 comments

Planning for a Workaway trip with your children can be challenging, but it's absolutely worth the effort to take your family out of your comfort zone and on a worldwide adventure of a lifetime…

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• Travelling Tips

• about 2 min
• 12 comments

If you are like us and every day is your own individual Valentine’s day with the world, you’ll already be spreading your love as we speak. But what’s a solo, single traveller to do on Valentine’s day? We’ve got some fun things to do that aren’t going out for dinner or crying alone in your pj’s.

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• Using Workaway
• Inspiration

• about 3 min
• 61 comments

Travel and volunteering have no expiry date, so here are 5 little reasons why you should consider using Workaway when you are living in the ‘golden years’ after you’ve retired.

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• Travelling Tips

• about 6 min
• 94 comments

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 CHARGE ridiculous agency fees for your kindness. How crazy is that? In fact what we are here to do is show you how you can volunteer around the world without paying a cent…

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• Inspiration

• about 9 min
• 4 comments

In this crazy world full of technology, there’s still one form of innocent freedom we can run to in order to escape it all – travel books.

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• Inspiration

• about 4 min
• 34 comments

Coming home from a trip is hard, and even more so when it is unexpectedly cut short — let’s not beat around the bush. We’re all going through the same, and we all wish we knew how to cure those post-travel blues…

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• Inspiration

• about 5 min
• 88 comments

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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• Travelling Tips

• about 7 min
• 40 comments

Tips & advice about ways to travel the world including websites and other ways of saving or stretching your hard earned cash.

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• Inspiration

• about 3 min
• 9 comments

We want to spread the word further, to show everyone why becoming a volunteer is so rewarding. Here are 10 reasons why volunteering is the BEST FEELING in the world.

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• Inspiration

• about 4 min
• 4 comments

One problem we come across regularly is the desire to travel over the reality of travelling. For some, it really just isn’t possible – whether that be because of money, time or commitments… But you know we are not the sort of people to back down easy, so we’ve come up with these 5 ways to experience the world and to feed your inner wanderlust, without actually having to travel.

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• Inspiration

• about 3 min
• 29 comments

Why do we travel? To meet people, to see amazing sights, to learn new languages, or purely just to get out there to see the world? Whatever the reason we travel, have you noticed how we have become obsessed with counting countries?! Uploading the most Instagrams and trying to conquer every continent? Why do we travel with so much urgency now?

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• Using Workaway

• about 4 min
• 15 comments

While living and travelling around the world we’ve been fortunate enough to see some amazing places, amazing people and amazing food. But when it comes to accommodation we are shocked daily by the sheer amount of damn right awesome places there are to stay in the world. And some of them are even right here on Workaway ready and waiting for people like YOU to stay in. Here are 8 that have caught our eye recently..

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• Inspiration

• about 6 min
• 6 comments

What makes these ordinary moments extraordinary? Connection. To the people, the place, the culture. More than checking off a bucket list, collecting mementos, or visiting museums, connecting with locals is the best way to not only catch a glimpse into the daily life of another culture, but to become part of that daily life.

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• Using Workaway

• about 7 min
• 29 comments

Before even embarking on the experience, a host needs to be prepared mentally and practically for a visitor – it’s not always easy sharing your space or adapting to someone else’s. Here we’ve got a 10 point step-by-step guide to help you get the most of out of your experience as a host…

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• Inspiration

• about 4 min
• 15 comments

The only limits you have are the limits you believe! These travellers will show you why you can travel the world no matter your age or ability.

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• Using Workaway

• about 4 min
• 35 comments

Be a good guest by following some of the advice here to make your Workaway stay an enjoyable and productive one where both hosts and volunteers benefit.

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• Travelling Tips

• about 4 min
• 23 comments

Everyone smiles in the same language! There are hundreds of festivals set up all around the world for that exact reason; to make you SMILE!

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• Inspiration

• about 6 min
• 23 comments

Love and travel go hand in hand, in fact TRAVEL IS LOVE. Travel means falling in love with new places, new languages, new foods and new surroundings. And for a lot of us falling in love with a person. But is love found on the road true love? Is it sincere and will it last the test of time? Or will it be swept away like the footprints in the sand only to be replaced over and over again?

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