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I would love to take care of pets and farm animals - horses, sheep, goats, cows etc. and learn some more plant growing skills.
Nina is looking to meet other workawayers
about 44 minutes ago
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I currently live in Melbourne about an hour’s drive from the city centre on a farm that I found through Workaway, and I’d love it if anyone fancied exploring Melbourne a bit with me.
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New Zealand
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🐢••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••🧿 Bicycle Travelling : 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇦🇹🇮🇹🇬🇷 2018 🇨🇦 🇹🇼 2019 🇯🇵 2020 🇧🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹 2021 🇵🇹 2022 🇫🇷 2024 🇩🇰🇸🇪 2026 Feel free to add me: +32 0451021850 (Whatsapp) 🍄••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••🦥 Born in Switzerland to a Belgian father and a Colombian mother. Family is located across Italy, Belgium and Colombia. Travelled through 75 countries and lived in the following locations: 🏡 Childhood • Bern🇨🇭 • Kingston 🇯🇲 • Brussels 🇧🇪 • La Paz 🇧🇴 🏡 Adolescence • São Paulo 🇧🇷 • Brussels 🇧🇪 🏡 Adulthood • Brussels 🇧🇪 • Louvain-la-Neuve 🇧🇪 • Aix-En-Provence 🇫🇷 • Barcelona 🇪🇸 • Guadalajara 🇲🇽 • Madrid 🇪🇸 • Medellín 🇨🇴 • Istanbul 🇹🇷 • Kobe and Awa 🇯🇵 • Rome 🇮🇹 • Barrenta 🇵🇹 " All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel, to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows. " • Nikos Kazantzakis " The highest to which man can attain is wonder, and if the prime phenomenon makes him wonder, let him be content, nothing higher can it give him, and nothing further should he seek for behind it. Here is the limit. " • Johann Wolfgang Goethe 📌 I am a Third Culture Kid (TCK). This way of life has shaped significantly the core of who I am. If you want to know more about this subject you can start with this article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid
Séamas is looking for a travel buddy
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Language(s) I could teach : English
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Volunteering in Ondara. Next days going to Calp.
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Меня мотивируют новые знакомства, новые приключения и путешествия. Я очень люблю музыку, живопись и медитации. Полное ощущение счастья мне приносит уютная компания, духовные разговоры и китайский чай) Я люблю учится чему то новому, обучать людей своим навыкам и дарить им свои знания
Maxim is looking for a travel buddy
about 13 minutes ago
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Barbora: Passionate about sports and trying new things, Ex-competitive cross-country skier Thomas: Licensed pilot, ex-ice hockey player, grew up in the countryside, handy with tools
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We believe empowering communities at a local level is one of the most impactful ways to help them build self-sustainable livelihoods.

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