Profile information
Travel information
We are currently
Travelling
Activities we are interested in:
Looking to meet new people, help where we can and learn!
Our next destination:
Indonesia - from Apr 2025 until Jul 2025 View all
Description
Hi!
We are Chris and Emma, both 27 year old UK residents taking a year off working in healthcare, travelling the world.
We both love
Nature (I studied biology and conservation)
Travel
Building (lots of big and smaller projects)
Gardening
Photography
Gardening
Hiking
Food/ Cooking
History
We both spend time with family including nieces, 6 months old, 5 years old and 7 years old.
We are both hope to meet many locals and get to know the culture, happy to see and hear about anything a host wishes to share with us!
We have completed farm/homestays in Cambodia and Laos.
Our most recent 2 week stay helping a remote village in Laos building huts, making bricks, creating bamboo structures. Agriculture, fruit picking and working with local children to help their English skills through play and arts and crafts.
We have both looked after young kids and can run arts and crafts for groups, we can both teach English.
We both have professional cameras and can document and take photos for your workaway if needed.
I work in IT and can fix many computer or website issues.
We spend our time camping/ hiking out with cameras, helping out with various DIY building projects at home or with friends.
We both love music, board games (Chris Guitar) and gardening.
Emma loves crocheting and crafts too.
Interests
Outdoor activities
Sailing / Boating
Self development
Drawing & painting
Art & design
Cycling
Fitness
Gardening
Music
Photography
Plant care
Technology
Winter sports
Nature
Farming
Hitchhiking
Languages
Mountain
History
Hiking
Charity work
Cooking & food
Beach
Culture
Books
Camping
Carpentry
Architecture
Adventure sports
Animals
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentMore details about my language interests
Japanese Spanish German
Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Charity Work
Art Projects
Animal Care
Hospitality/Tourism
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Being an elderly companion
Eco Projects
Teaching
Babysitting and creative play
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Life at a Farmstay
Helping around the house
Able to teach about:
Helping with Computers/ Internet
More details about your skills
We both work in healthcare in the UK.
Emma
Works in Psychology
Lots of experience caring for children, baby sitting, caring for young adults and adults.
Psychology and care services, talking to people.
Volunteered teaching kids in Laos basic English and doing arts and crafts with them.
Has worked making bricks out of cement.
Has worked in restaurants and cafes.
Hard working
Fit and healthy - goes to gym
Loves cooking.
Chris
Works as a software developer
Has worked in pubs/ bars in the UK various roles in kitchen.
Heavy lifting, have worked in warehouses.
I have helped build bricks in Laos for a farmstay's new building. I have collected bamboo and prepared foundations.
Loves DIY building projects. Building sheds, garden landscaping, planters/ gardening related.
I have done some agricultural work planting vegetables and picking fruits and nuts.
Happy to learn more DIY building or gardening skills.
I also loves cooking and teaching.
Age
27 & 27
What else ...
Photography, outdoors, travel and meeting new people are our favorite things to do!
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Special dietary requirements
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Friends
Feedback
Great project with a lot of scope to grow bigger in the next few years.
Phonephet and his young family are a joy to be with, Phonephet has done a good job at balancing work and rest on this laid back island.
Our daily duties varied from picking… read more
