Posts tagged with: "sabbatical"

• Travel Stories
• Inspiration

• about 6 min
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Every month, we review our lovely photo competition entrances and are at awe with all the fun and jaw-dropping adventures our Workawayers get up to! In the last few months, there's been a pair of wanderers whose vibrant snapshots and energy have caught our eye - meet Fabian and Eva, the French couple who took a sabbatical year to travel the world and discovered a passion for adventure and photography on the way!

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• Inspiration

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When I tell people now that I quit my job as a nurse to travel solo around the world for fourteen months, it seems kind of dramatic. In fact, I believe it’s the decision that saved my life, the one I was meant to live! Learning to trust and believe in the strong desires of your heart won’t give you all the answers. However, it will give you the courage to live your life according to your own rules.

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• Using Workaway
• Travelling Tips

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• 62 comments

It can be intimidating if you’re new to volunteering abroad (or need to reassure your parents). Here are a few tips for your first Workaway that I’m sure will give you the confidence to go for it and have one of the best adventures of your life.

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• Inspiration

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Not sure about taking the risk of going on a gap year? Think gap years are only for college students, or teenagers with no goal in life? Here are 7 perfect reasons for you to start packing and embark on a year-long adventure abroad!

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• Workawayer of the Month
• Travel Stories

• about 9 min
• 5 comments

Here at Workaway, we have heard so many different stories about people taking huge leaps to discover a different way of life abroad, but one of the most unique stories we discovered is from Workawayer, Florian from Bavaria, Germany, who quit his job to volunteer and travel Alaska! We found Flo so inspiring that we couldn't pass down the opportunity to know more about him and his story.

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• Inspiration
• Travelling Tips

• about 14 min
• 12 comments

Travelling on a budget? Here are our top 10 countries in Asia where you will find unbeatable food, rich culture and unforgettable scenery for an incredible price tag. Whether you’re a student or simply trying to travel slower and cheaper, you are guaranteed a priceless experience with this travel guide.

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• Workawayer of the Month

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• 13 comments

When Mike and Kara became empty nesters, these two leapt at the chance to have an epic adventure! Read on to find out more about this life-changing move, tips on how to extend a one-year trip into eight, and how they inspired their son to start travelling too...

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• Workawayer of the Month

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• 5 comments

Viviane decided years ago that 2020 would be the year she’d quit her job as an exec at a Silicon Valley startup and adventure around the world. While with the pandemic things didn't go according to plan, she managed to adapt her dream and safely embarked on her simple but epic gap year as a workawayer!

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• Inspiration

• about 7 min
• 20 comments

Life is too precious to be wishing it away for retirement when we’ll have the “time” to travel. Now more than ever, we have the time to plan, time to find your perfect host and to research our dream destinations... so why not use this time to plan your grown up gap year?

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• Inspiration

• about 5 min
• 122 comments

At Workaway we are avid travellers, worldwide wanderers and open road addicts, but there is definitely a right time to start to travel the world!

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