Workaway: a website where you sign up to host travellers in your home in return for them working for you? It sounds like the answer to my prayers.The Workaway website operates similarly to Airbnb (although it is less Egyptian cotton sheets and more blood, sweat and tears).
Hosts post opportunities to work in their homes and travellers, looking for free accommodation, reach out.Workaway hosts span the world.
There are opportunities to stay in a guesthouse in Vietnam, where guests contribute to running the place in return for a room right on the Dalat lake.
There is a host in Costa Rica, living off-grid in an isolated jungle home, looking for guests who can help look after their daughter.
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