We’re doing vine!

Boyup Brook 14 Oct – 27 Nov Yes, yes, yes! We found work! After searching for a job for weeks it was finally time to replenish our depleted Australian bank account with some good old physical labour on a vineyard near Boyup Brook, south of Perth. It was simple work, pruning grapevines and lifting wires,…

Farmwork in Australia

Those coveted 88 days… If you don’t know what we mean by “farmwork” and 88 days, you’re probably not interested in coming to Australia on a Working Holiday Visa. For those of you that do, we want to share that experience with you, giving tips and telling you what to expect. We’ve picked different types…

Hard Knock Lime

Mareeba 25 July – 14 August 2017 “We’re never picking citrus again!” is what we said to each other when we finally left the lemon farm back in February, after 7 weeks of being scratched to pieces by the thorns, working in the scorching heat. Well, I guess we were wrong. The last three weeks we’ve been…

The end of an era

It took an additional 12 weeks, 65 workdays, 385 bins, more than 150.000 kg of apples and 6 seasons of Game of Thrones, but we’re done with our farmwork! It feels great to get back to traveling again, after a total of almost 5 months of working hard and earning money. We’ve said our goodbyes…

​40.000 apples a day (do not) keep the doctor away

Stanthorpe 24 Feb – 25 May 2017 Time for another update on our wonderful life as fruit pickers! As we told you in our last blog post, we had to quit the lemon farm since we were almost losing money instead of actually saving up to travel. A friend of ours had already left Bundaberg…

And all that I can see… Is just another lemon tree :\

Bundaberg 4 Jan – 24 Feb 2017 Well, hello there! Long time no see! We know, it’s been a while since we last posted something on here, on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or anywhere else online. Well, it’s finally time to break the radio silence! Let’s get you up to speed on what we’ve been doing…