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Posted by The Working Traveller on July 4th, 2011

Sitting at my desk a month or so after our return it seems almost like we haven’t been away and that there hadn’t been a seven month gap since I last sat in this chair.

I haven’t forgotten that in those seven months we followed Moses’s footsteps up Mount Sinai, walked in the desert, swam over coral reefs, waited out the Egyptian revolution, swore at numerous taxi drivers in Beirut, stayed in a cave, walked around the Byzantine walls of Diyabakir and crossed the Tigris under an orange sky in Iraq. Those things happened to Traveller Shane, not to Home Shane.

Posted in Cairo to (almost) Istanbul, Site News

Tags: egypt, travel blogging, turkey

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The Working Traveller Hits the Middle East

Posted by The Working Traveller on January 18th, 2011

For the next two to three months The Working Traveller is going to be concentrating on the Middle East. Why? Because that’s where we are now.

We left our home in Turkey in October and, after spending three months visiting family in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, eating cheese and shouting at our sub dial up internet connection, reached Egypt in the beginning of January.

We are in Dahab, in the Sinai peninsula, and not really doing a great deal. This town is like that. We are travel slugs at the best of times but Dahab has made us worse than usual, restricting our routine to eating, drinking a beer or two and puffing on sheeshas.

Posted in Cairo to (almost) Istanbul, Our Travels, Site News, Travelling

Tags: dahab, egypt, travel blogging

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Merry Christmas, Enjoy These Repeats

Posted by The Working Traveller on December 25th, 2010

I have been trying to think of something Christmassy for our first post on the day Jesus was born. I didn’t want to put too much effort into it though. After all it is Christmas and who wants to work stuffed full of mince pies and sherry when there’s Top Gear and Doctor Who on the telly?

The initial plan of just saying ‘Merry Christmas’ is going to make for a very short post, exactly two words short, so I needed something more.

Posted in Site News

Tags: merry christmas

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(Over) Six Months on the Blog

Posted by The Working Traveller on December 17th, 2010

There’s a gun in the room where I’m staying but fortunately it’s locked away or I would have shot my pathetic internet connection by now. The past month has been spent swearing and throwing the stupid dongle around the kitchen (it’s resilient, I’ll give it that) in between doing a fraction of the work I could be doing. Fortunately the email is not too bad but when it comes to writing an article or putting up a new job it would be quicker to write everything on a piece of paper, lure a monkey into the house, shove the paper up its bum and release it randomly into the wild to find our own Wordpress back end.

Posted in Site News, The Blogpacker

Tags: travel blogging

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Our CheapOair Guest Post about Volunteer Work in Peru

Posted by The Working Traveller on August 5th, 2010

I’ve been planning on following up our first guest post, Volunteer Your Way Through Central America, for some time.

The sequel will move south and deal with something similar for South America, covering ten of the continent’s countries (excluding Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana where I can’t find any inexpensive volunteer work), but so far there hasn’t been the time to write it.

So I was pleased when CheapOair, who as their name suggests sell cheap flights, got in touch and gave me the push needed to write another guest post. Hopefully I’ll get around to finishing the South American piece soon but until then here are 5 Cheap Ways to Volunteer in Peru

Posted in Columns, Site News, Volunteering

Tags: guest posts, peru, travel blogging

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Our First Guest Post: Volunteer Your Way Through Central America

Posted by The Working Traveller on June 24th, 2010

We had our first guest post published a few days ago. I recently wrote about 12 Travel Blogs Looking for Guest Posts and decided to write for one of them myself.

It has been a long time since I wrote for another publication. There is enough work to do already keeping JAB and the Overseas Job Centre updated (let alone this blog), but being published in the excellent Art of Backpacking reminded me of the thrill of seeing my name in another publication.

Posted in Site News, Volunteering

Tags: belize, central america, guest posts, JAB, panama, Volunteering

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New Look for JAB

Posted by The Working Traveller on May 18th, 2010

The Jobs Abroad Bulletin recently celebrated its 100^th issue but, instead of making a big fuss, we made that issue the last one. JAB started in April 2000, as a free monthly email bulletin, with 700 subscribers.

JAB has always been a travel publication; it’s intent to show ways for brummies to stay in Bali and for scousers to survive in Sydney. JAB itself is as well travelled as we hoped our readers would become. It has crossed deserts and oceans, climbed mountains and trekked through the jungle to reach your inbox from Chile, Bolivia, Malaysia, Australia and many other places.

Posted in Site News

Tags: jobs abroad bulletin

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