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3 Top Reasons Why We Travel

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Tomorrow morning I am taking the train into work and handing in my resignation. I will be wearing my ironed shirt and my shiny shoes as a weapon of courtesy, but my smile will be the one thing that is telling the truth and screaming with joy.   That alarm has been going off now on a morning for years. Sometimes the alarm is a good alarm, elephant trekking in Chang Mai for instance. Sometimes the alarm is a bad one, like catching the overnight bus through Laos and its many winding building sites. An alarm always has and always Read more

A Guide To Travelling When You Have No Money.

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A Guide To Travelling When You Have No Money.

A Guide To Traveling When You Have No Money   The main reason that people give, when it comes to the failure to broaden their own minds, is that they can’t ‘afford’ to travel, or that they can’t ever even think about travelling until they have X amount of pounds/dollars to ‘guarantee’ their safety. I’ve even met people on the working holiday in Australia who have been in the same city for their entire working holiday visa!     Guess what, You can go travelling right now, just up sticks and see the world. Grab a drink in Venice, dance with Read more

How to Get Work on a Working Holiday

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Some tips on getting a bar job Well the clues in the title, on a working holiday it stands to reason that at some point you are going to need to work. So what kind of job suites you the most? What about a working holiday job where you can lie by a beach all day long, meet loads of like minded people and get a little tipsy on a night, whilst saving money. Sounds like a dream doesn’t it?! Well it’s the perfect job for the off the plane, fresh faced foreigner like you! It’s bar work that you Read more

You Have A Visa, What’s Next?

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First off, congratulations on reading this. It shows that you are serious about wanting to get the very best from your working holiday and enjoy every moment of this unique (and expensive) opportunity that you have paved out for yourself. In 2012/2013 over 210,000 visas have been issued by the Australian government to people just like you. Firstly, its great to remember that you are not alone! There is a fantastic community of us offering both work and travel advice to help you out along the way. My name is Joel Mitchell and at the date of writing this I Read more