We've been on an offgrid homestead in the mountains in North-West Tasmania for a week #Workaway. It's beautiful, remote and perilously steep and/or wiggly roads to get in. There is a strong community and a certain wariness: am told by our host that the conspiracy theorists are increasing in number, but they're generally incredibly friendly here.

Meeting the local kids it honestly felt like being a foreigner in a small village in Thailand: they stare and stare, unaccustomed to strangers.

Image: neighbouring farmhouse in the middle distance to the left and to the right in the far distance, you can see Cradle Mountain.

#tasmania

I meant to write this post a while ago, but it got eated by Tusky. Oops.

Anyhoo, my first #Workaway experience was brilliant. I'm probably a pretty extreme outlier as a Workawayer, most seem to be young and single or couple/no kids, but Workaway has good filters and settings for families, so it was easy to only contact hosts that were happy to host families - though a single parent family is a bigger ask in many ways.

I was lucky to get a host who had a really lovely separate guest accommodation, so we had privacy and that suits me fairly well, though it would have been fine to be in the same house as they had a child my daughter's age and I think she would have really liked that. But under the circumstances it worked better maybe that they had some separation or could have got seriously overstimulated! The work in this case was mostly childcare related and worked great for us. The weather was pretty chilly so didn't really spend as much time outside as we would have in warmer weather, but still a good amount of nature walks & farm time.

If you are thinking to join workaway, I absolutely can recommend it! It's much bigger than #WWOOF was back when I first did WWOOFing, and very easy to navigate: though the website, especially the messaging feature, is a bit buggy.

My #AffiliateCode is: A55X5165, which I mention mainly because if you sign up with it you get 3 months additional membership for free, which is much better than the 1 month free I got with the only discount choice I could find a couple of months ago.

Happy to answer any questions!

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Ich brauch demnächst für 5 Wochen Haus/Katzen/Garten-Sitter und hab grad mal im Internet geguckt, was es für Seiten dafür gibt und bin etwas überrascht, dass es so viele verschiedene gibt! 😲

Hat irgendjemand Erfahrungswerte - egal ob als Sitter oder Host - und kann etwas pro oder contra verschiedene Anbieter sagen bzw einen empfehlen?

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#mindmyhouse
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We're on another #lutruwita #Tasmania adventure! This time in my lovely #mitsubishi #minicabMiEV. Got the boat across (car travel for free special) and have managed the following itinerary so far since 7am today:

#Penguin
#Burnie
#Waratah
#Tullah
#Queenstown

There is EV charging at our bnb, which also has a lovely view over the town. We are here for 3 days and plan to do the Wilderness Railway, Strahan, and little side trips from town. Queentown itself is so interesting. It's got the most stunning mountain ringed backdrop, and the old miners cottages everywhere are in various stages of disrepair and refurbishment. There are clearly quite a few characters locally. But it really is stunning. As was the drive down. It's nice actually to be forced to take it slow and charge regularly. Have met several people who are not from Tasmania, in fact everyone I've had a conversation with so far in which I've learned where they are from, 100% are not from Tasmania (but live here). The guy running the local chippy/pizzeria has an epic ginga beard, but I do not know if he's local. And the chips were delicious.

After here we plan to visit near #Scottsdale for a #Workaway experience which I am just as excited about! HMU if you are somewhere along the way between here and there, and would like to meetup!

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