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Experience Australia on a Working Holiday Australia Visa

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Working Holiday Australia Visa

  The Working Holiday Australia Visa is a great option for working and travelling in Australia. The WHV Australia program is the perfect strategy for an extended stay in Oz as it allows gap year students, backpackers and people on a career break to earn an income for supplementing their travel funds. It’s an opportunity [...]

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My Experiences Teaching Overseas

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North Carolina, USA

“If you could do it all over again Caz, would you still become a primary school teacher?” I was out to lunch with some of my oldest friends and we had just been sharing horror stories of teaching in Australia–mine, those of some other teachers there, and those that had been heard through the hallways [...]

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5 Working Holiday Stories on Friday Five Travel Podcast

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Bangkok, Thailand

Welcome to another Friday Five segment of the y Travel Cafe World Travel Podcast. This week we are sharing with you 5 of our working holiday stories. As most of you know a working holiday is how we have managed to travel the world for as long as we have. We have lived and worked [...]

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Welcome to Kuri Bay Paspaley Pearl Farm

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Port George C pearl farm Kuri Bay

Every afternoon, after a long hot day on the boats chipping barnacle encrusted shells, I would walk past the sign welcoming me to Kuri Bay Pearl Farm, the home of Paspaley Pearls. As I would read the sign, the aches in my shoulders, the stinging slashes on my body from the fireweed, and the arthritic pain [...]

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Working around the World as a Driving Instructor

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driving instructor

Becoming a driving instructor gives you the opportunity to work almost anywhere in the world. Thousands of Britons emigrate from the UK every year dreaming of clear skies, sunny beaches and palm trees. Living an improved life in a beautiful climate is certainly appealing, but just like here in the UK, you need to earn [...]

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Travel Tip: How to Get Free Flights

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How to get free flights

I’m sure we all know that the biggest expense to our traveling lifestyle is the price of flights. Free flights is the ultimate lottery prize and just like the lottery they are extremely hard to come by. But after catching over a hundred flights we’ve learned that it is possible to get free flights and [...]

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Living in Another Country and Sharing your Culture

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My country Australia

I love living in another country as a foreigner. It just makes everyday living that more exciting as everything around you is new and you are new and exciting to everyone around you. There is so much to learn from the new culture and you also have so much to share about your own. I’ve [...]

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