About Just Workation
Editorial and decision-support for full- and part-time remote workers and freelancers planning two to eight-week trips.
Just Workation is written from the room. Somebody books the place, works a normal job from it for weeks, and then writes down what that was actually like — the wifi at four in the afternoon, the month the ferry stops, the evening that needs a car you decided not to rent. It is the half of the decision that booking sites have no commercial reason to tell you.
Why it exists
There is no shortage of writing about working from somewhere warm. Almost all of it was produced without going, is about a lifestyle rather than a job, and answers the question "is this place nice?" rather than "can I hold a standup from it on a wet Tuesday in February?" Those are different questions. This site only answers the second one.
How it is written
Nothing is published about a place nobody has been to. Every article states the period it reports on rather than only the date it went live, because a piece about the eastern Algarve in January stops being true in June and you deserve to see which one you are reading. Where facts age — timetables, opening hours, what is open — the byline says when they were last checked. No rankings, no scores, no prices: a place is described, never graded against another, and what a stay costs is between you and the host.
How it is organised
Destinations is everywhere we have worked from, grouped by country and region. Planning is the decisions that come before you pick one — what it costs, what your employer has to agree to, how long you can stay.Spaces is the houses themselves, kept as reference profiles and revisited as they change, because a coliving in its third year is not the coliving that was reviewed in its first.
Where we have been so far
Thirteen weeks in Fuseta and the eastern Algarve over the winter of 2026, a spring in Olhão, and a late summer outside Burgas on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. That is a short list, deliberately. It grows at the speed of actually going places, which is slower than the speed of writing about them.
Who writes it
Thomas Sittig — founding editor, software engineer, based in Germany. Which is relevant context: this is written by someone who has to be on calls in a European working day, not by someone whose job is the travelling.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, stale, or has quietly stopped being true since we visited, say so: hello@justworkation.com. Corrections are the cheapest thing on this site and the most useful. The imprint has the formal details.