Harvest Grapes for a Free Trip to France

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Harvesting grapes can pay your way while traveling through France.
Harvesting grapes can pay your way while traveling through France.
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You can have a free trip to France by harvesting grapes.
You can have a free trip to France by harvesting grapes.

Find out how you can have a free trip to France simply by working harvesting grapes as you travel.

Harvest Grapes for a Free Trip to France

You may sleep in an outbuilding with other vendangeurs or, if you’re lucky, you might be given a room in the farmer’s house. Either way, if you’re not allergic to hard work and you enjoy meeting warm and generous people, le vendange could be your ticket to a Europe you didn’t even know existed!

For more than 2,000 years, le vendange (the gathering in of grapes) has been one of France’s most widely noted late summer and early autumn traditions. We all know that.

But did you know that you can actually get paid ($15 to $25 a day, plus — in most cases — a daily bottle of wine) for taking part in this almost mythical harvest? Or that you can do so without going through the hassles of obtaining a work permit . . . or learning to speak French . . . or even writing ahead to arrange for a job before you get there?

  • Published on Sep 1, 1977
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