Craig & Lauren

United Kingdom
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Hello! We’re Craig and Lauren, a fun and easy going couple who have been travelling around the world since 2008 with our trusty backpacks and 7 different campervans. We've found volunteering a great way to stop moving so fast and get to know a certain area and the locals.

There's been a variety of work along the way: helping build a cabin, making homemade jams and preserves, building mud bricks in the Sahara, housesitting, dog-sitting (our favourite!!), cutting wood, cleaning chicken coops, pruning trees, corralling escaping pigs, painting, serving guests, cleaning rooms and making wine, to name a few.

We both love being in nature, relaxing with a book, hiking in the mountains and swimming in lakes. We tend to avoid city’s and most of our travel's are based around getting from one National Park to the next. We are very arty, Lauren is always embroidering something, painting, taking photos and writing a blog about our adventures, while Craig enjoys wood carving, cooking and fixing things.
Interests
Writing
Outdoor activities
Vegetarian or vegan
Videography
Van life
Photography
Pets
Nature
Mountain
Hiking
Gardening
Drawing & painting
DIY & crafts
Culture
Cooking & food
Camping
Blogging
Books
Beach
Art & design
Animals
Adventure sports
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
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This workawayer has indicated that they would be interested in sharing their language(s) or learning a new language. You can contact them directly to discuss this.
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Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Light gardening
Creative DIY projects
Light maintenance
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Animal Care
Charity Work
Art Projects
Helping with Computers/ Internet
Able to teach about:
Hospitality/Tourism
More details about your skills
We have over 20 year’s hospitality experience each (waiting, bartending, chefing, barista, hotels) so that's where most of our skills lie. Our work has ranged from serving VIP guests in a boutique restaurants and making artisan coffees in a ski-town café to pouring pints for locals in a village pub and working in chain restaurants. We also have experience working in a five star hotel as General assistants. However, while doing workaway we are enjoying getting our hands dirty in various indoor/outdoor tasks.
We both have a lot of common sense and motivation so are willing/able to give anything a go. We're keen on gardening and love looking after animals, but a mix of jobs has suited us best. Variety is the spice of life!
Age
43 & 36
What else ...
Our future plans (dream) is to buy some land and build a little log cabin, have a big garden with enough space to grow vegetables and have some hens and a cow. We're hoping that helping various people in workaway will give us experience and knowledge to do these things. Until then we're enjoying exploring the world with our backpacks and a string of old campervans.
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- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements
  Lauren - Vegetarian. Craig - Eats everything

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16 Aug 2024

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Shani and Tim are setting a great example of how country can meet city head on and live at peace with each other. This place shows us that with enough design, knowledge and willpower to start doing the right thing by Mother Earth, we can all live on this planet and make it a little greener and cleaner. We spent two weeks here whilst the hosts were… read more

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3 Jul 2024

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Craig and Lauren were a delight to have in our home - they were hard working, showed great initiative, did beyond what was expected of them and were sensitive houseguests. We were away for a large part of the time they were here and they took care of our animals as if they were their own. If this couple apply to do a workaway with you - take them.… read more

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28 Jul 2023

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Craig and Lauren started working with us in May 2023. They very quickly fitted in to the team and were a great asset at our 14 bed 5 star gold guest accommodation in the English Lakes. They were hardworking, cheerful and professional, had plenty of common sense and initiative, and they easily met the high standards of work required.
They were very… read more

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22 May 2018

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Thank you Karina and Ian for two fun months in the tiny village of Ringstad. We stayed from March until the end of April and helped prepare the place for the busy summer season. Our jobs were very varied and consisted of helping in the kitchen and restaurant, cleaning rooms, snow ploughing etc and Craig also fibre glassed and painted a damaged… read more

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16 Aug 2024

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3 Jul 2024

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28 Jul 2023

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22 May 2018

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17 Mar 2018

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Craig & Lauren stayed about 2 months with us. They are just great. Did a lot of handyman-work at our basecamp incl. Painting, organizing and making great system for all our tools and other stuff -and we can say for sure it’s a lot of stuff. Also did some outdoor work still it was cold wintertime. We are glad they took advantage of the beautiful… read more

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17 Mar 2018

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We spent almost two months in beautiful Nordskot and had such a great time! As it was off season (jan/feb) we were very lucky to stay in their best apartment on the jetty, where we regularly saw the magical northern lights! Most of our work was at the old school (basecamp) and we did lots of painting and organising. We were given a list of jobs… read more

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17 May 2017

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We stayed with Di and Bungie for 6 weeks and the time just flew by! We enjoyed all of the jobs they gave us and they were extremely appreciative of the work we did which was lovely. They were very generous and allowed us to use their car on our days off so we could explore the local area. We even went to Benagil Cave with Di and she organised… read more

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16 May 2017

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We just LOVE Craig and Lauren. They have been such fun over the last 6 weeks. They are fantastic volunteers, will do anything you ask of them, and always with a great attitude and a big smile. They are self motivated, and will look for other jobs to do themselves if they have finished their task. The stories of their amazing travels will keep you… read more

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2 Mar 2017

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We really enjoyed our stay in the desert camp in M'hammid. There was npt a great deal of work to be done for the 2 weeks of our stay but we did make alot of mud bricks, bamboo roof mats, mud flooring and watering and planting trees. What made this place was the group of people that were gathered their singing songs around the campfire, guitar,… read more

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15 Feb 2017

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We stayed with Mohammed and his welcoming family for 5 nights and were very pleased with our experience. The tempo of life here is very relaxed with plenty of time for reading, resting and conversation. During our stay we learnt the traditional techniques of tagine making, make and bake fresh bread, and morrocan mint tea (Lauren was very happy to… read more

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2 Feb 2017

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Craig and Lauren stayed with us for about seven weeks during December 2016 and January 2017. For five weeks of that we were away, leaving them an agreed list of work in the garden and to cope with whatever came up.

What came up was the coldest weather for a generation with over a metre of snow, no water, no electricity and all the paths and… read more

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27 Jan 2017

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This was such an amazing place to workaway. Roger and Jo are very easy to get along with, friendly and generous. We spent almost two months at Glossa, living in the lovely Old Wine Store with the most incredible view. We were gardening, house sitting and feeding Kirsty the cat. Money was provided for us to buy food in the village. The weather… read more

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22 Apr 2014

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Ian and Jess are a very friendly and welcoming couple with two sweet girls (and wee Eilean!) they all made us feel comfortable and at home. Work was very relaxed and we could work the 25hours in 4 days and have 3 days off to explore the STUNNING area - one of our favorites in Scotland, their are plenty of marked hikes up in the hills and a… read more

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13 Apr 2014

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craig and lauren stayed a month with us through out the the time they were friendly kind funny good company which is great, but the work they did during there stay was of the highest quality craig is a really talented guy with wood lauren talented painter any host would be lucky to have to have such a such a lovely couple stay with them i wish… read more

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24 Mar 2014

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Craig & Lauren spent the winter with us. They were hard working and very helpful, trying their hands at whatever task we gave them. They love animals and were brilliant with our dogs. they are a friendly and independent couple who are able to work unsupervised. I can highly recommend them

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15 Mar 2014

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We stayed with Sarah for just over 4 months throughout the winter season. Most of our work was with Richard the friendly gardener, from pruning roses, to makings bonfires and cleaning out the hen house. We also helped out with cleaning/making the b&b rooms, and washing up/serving in the restaurant side of things. Sarah would make lunch for us on… read more

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12 Nov 2013

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We stayed with Tania for 1 month and it was our first workaway experience, she was very good at answering any questions we had and there was a great folder she’d prepared full of everything from the daily routine, to walks in the area. There was always lots of work to do; the garden is a work in progress and with the two boys the house did need a… read more

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10 Nov 2013

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I recruited Lauren and Craig because they looked like friendly, fun loving people with helpful skills...and they were! :-) They were hard working and resourceful and completed a wide variety of tasks during their stay with me. These included jam, chutney and wine making, woodwork, general DIY, gardening, sewing, painting, helping out with my kids,… read more

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