How many times have you seen a photo of someone travelling around the world, with only a backpack to call home, and a wide grin that says freedom rocks and you need to get some? I bet you want some of it too right? Most people do. Except, most people place the idea of them [...]

Explaining working holidays around the world, how you can get your working holiday visa and why you should consider this style of world travel

This is a guest post by Barbara from the Drop Out Diaries First and foremost, there wouldn’t be an “us” without slow travel. I met Darling Man after a year of living and working (and traveling) in Vietnam. I’d gone to Vietnam with the intention of staying three or four months, long enough to get [...]

This post is brought to you by Sophie Steine Visiting Germany for a working holiday, or to take part in a course, as I did, can be a very rewarding experience. Once you have got your head around the language and the local customs you will find a rich and diverse cultural history waiting to [...]

The question we get asked the most is how did we manage to travel the world for so long. Most people think that we are really rich. I wish. That is the beauty of travelling the world, you don’t have to be rich. You just have to make smart choices. In this week’s travel podcast, [...]

I have been receiving a lot of emails and questions from readers about teaching around the world since I wrote my last couple of posts about my experiences teaching overseas. So in order to help our readers who are looking for ways to continually travel, here are some tips to help you know how to [...]

“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 [...]

This is a guest post by Roy from Cruise Surfingz If you’ve ever done a working holiday in an English-speaking country, you’ve probably had loads of fun and perhaps even met people from your home country. There’s not much of a culture-shock and it’s fairly easy to adapt to your new environment (apart from the [...]

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 [...]

“Ready for the mud walk today?” Stilts plonked himself down at the table wuith a plate full of bacon and eggs, a hearty start to a long day out on the water. A gleeful chuckle followed. Mud walk or not, every day on Kuri Bay Pearl Farm was his greatest adventure. The air raid siren [...]