Quite early in our travel planning we came across a website called Workaway. Immediately we knew that this was how we wanted to travel.
The Workaway concept is that travellers can work for a host in exchange for food and accommodation. Typically the work may occupy 5 hours a day for 5 days a week, leaving you with plenty of time to explore the local area. The work offered on Workaway is varied, from farm work to helping run a hostel. There is definitely something for everyone! The length of time that you stay with a host for is entirely up to you.
We spent some time setting up our profile (Workaway allows single or couple profiles), detailing our experience, our interests, and where we want to travel and then the searching begun! Workaway has so many hosts the choice can be slightly overwhelming. We narrowed our searches down by country and then searched by some of our interests e.g. "guitar", but if you have time it's quite nice to browse through other hosts to make sure you don't miss something you never would have thought of searching for. After finding a host you like the sound of you can contact them through the Workaway website. Not all hosts will reply to you, and some might not be able to host you at the time you want, so we sent out a few emails at a time and crossed our fingers for replies. Hopefully the hosts will think you're a good fit and you can start arranging your trip.
Hosts are also able to search for and contact travellers, and in the run up to our trip we also had hosts messaging us to ask if we would like to go and stay with them!
Workaway really appealed to us as a great way to keep the costs of travelling down, while trying some exciting new experiences and meeting some interesting people along the way. This blog will record our journey.
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