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Sep 1, 2026
Julie PinheiroHOST
It doesn't just save you money, it has the potential to close the distance between you and a foreign place.
Julie PinheiroHOST
When I backpacked through Chile, I had almost no money, so I used a website called Workaway to pick up a job working at a hostel in the capital city, Santiago.
Julie PinheiroHOST
I worked six hours a day at the front desk in exchange for a place to sleep and one hot meal a day.
Julie PinheiroHOST
I lived a somewhat regular rhythm, so I made friends with the owner of the hardware store and the university students down the street.
Mia KercherGUEST
And then I s- just started to...
Mia KercherGUEST
Then I think I did start to do a little research, and I found out about Workaway.
Mia KercherGUEST
So I did some volunteering, and I was in Albania and...
Mia KercherGUEST
Where else was I? Italy, in the mountains, and then I was supposed to go to Vienna after I finished in Italy, but my accommodation fell through right at the last minute, and nothing else was as cheap as that.
Cheryl DalyGUEST
I think I still have it open.
Cheryl DalyGUEST
Um, Like, for instance, this it's called Workaway, Workaway.info. And she goes, yeah, my family just wants we pick a month and go somewhere in the world.
Cheryl DalyGUEST
We don't even have to pay for it.
Cheryl DalyGUEST
We go to this Workaway.info. We find a place in the world that we want to go.
Cheryl DalyGUEST
We stay in their home or maybe they have like a cabin or whatever.
Cheryl DalyGUEST
you know, apartment on their property and they might need help with their animals, with their gardens, with some sort of work at their house, which is we just spend a month in this location, a month in that location.
DomHOST
So we all parted ways on that day.
DomHOST
So yeah, Ronia went back and, um, me and Lotta headed off to hitchhike, and C- um, Cam and Bec went to their... or got picked up for their work, uh, their Workaway.
DomHOST
Um, so me and Lotta took a bus out to a good hitchhiking spot, and then, yeah, spent the day hitchhiking, which was pretty fun and eventful.
DomHOST
We got...
DomHOST
Yeah, yeah.
DomHOST
Exactly.
DomHOST
So by the evening, we rocked up at our Workaway, which is this beautiful organic farm run by this Georgian couple, um, a young Georgian couple who have started it only a few years ago in COVID, and we're staying in this really, like, big old wooden house, apparently it's over 100 years old, with, like, a lot of character, two cats, four dogs-
BecHOST
dogs-Three.
MelissaGUEST
But I definitely over time was looking to move away from the bigger cities, um, and also do more slow travel.
MelissaGUEST
So for example, instead of, you know, spending one week and visiting five cities in one week, um, nowadays what I try to do is just go to one city, and that's something I've done a couple times, um, using websites like Workaway that give people a chance to stay for a couple weeks.
MelissaGUEST
Um, I've worked in hostels, for example.
MelissaGUEST
I worked in an art school.
Maëlle JulouNARRATOR
Workaway is a website platform that puts you in contact with potential hosts.
Maëlle JulouNARRATOR
The idea is to work a few hours every day in exchange for a free place to stay.
Maëlle JulouNARRATOR
I used this platform to stay in a Swedish farm for two weeks and live like a local.