Help with a family close to the beach in Andalucia

Country: Spain

Description

I am living on the beautiful Andalucian coast with my two kids (11 and 13) that are both easy going and bilingual. The area we live in is a surfers paradise and is close to many local tourist towns that you could visit and explore. We have a house with 3 apartments that we are renting to tourists where there is always help needed. Caños de Meca is a little village at the Costa de la Luz, for anyyone who wants to relax and enjoy nature and the local Spanish culture. It would be great if you had some skills in gardenwork, maintenance, computer skills or artistic flair. We are happy to have couples.

Area

Atlantic coast

Type of work

Other,
Language practise,
Helping with Tourists,
Help in the house,
General Maintenance,
Cooking / shopping,
Babysitting / child care,
Building,
Gardening

Work

Most of the work I need doing is gardenwork. I would also prefer someone staying who likes kids as they often like to play games and theatre with the workawayers! On the odd occasion, it would be nice to have someone helping me in the house with cleaning, washing e.t.c. Along with jobs that need doing around the property, I am looking at doing some exstensions to the house so it would be excellent if someone with carpentry, electrical or building skills could help us out. However, if you have none of these skills we are more than happy to find something to accommodate you.

I have quite a mixture of work to offer so not only would you be collaborating with me and my kids a fair bit, but if you had the ability to work independently when required this would be fantastic!

Languages spoken

English ,Spanish, German

Accommodation

In winter you can have one of the apartments that we rent out to tourists. In summer I can offer a basic little room with an independent bathroom, that is adjoined to the tourist accommodation.

What else ...

We can also provide Wifi.

Me, kids and friends

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The kids with Jason, one of our Workawayer!

Me and the kids

My daughter San watching the sunset

Me and my friend Karin

Raul (Workawayer) with my daughter painting

Me and my daughter at the beach

Richard (Workawayer) climbing up the hill behind our house

Feedback

(Excellent)

RichardHall [Jan 28, 2010]:

-> Help with a family close to the beach in Andalucia

We stayed with Simone and her two girls for just three weeks and loved every minute of it! Not only did they make us feel extremely welcome but we were involved in all sorts of things such as gardening, cooking, hanging out with the kids, drawing up some exstension plans and any other odd jobs that needed doing. Simone is an excellent host and if you have the opportunity to volunteer for her, you should take it! We will most definitely be coming back :)

(Excellent)

host [Jan 23, 2010]:

-> RichardHall

Richard and Katie stayed at my place for 3 weeks, they have been amazing and I felt really sad when they left :-( They got on perfectly with the kids (Richard playing football and badminton with them, giving them guitarclases e.t.c). Katie, as she is an interior designer, made me the whole plan for the future extentions of 2 more apartments, which Richard drew the plans on the computer. Katie cooks lovely food and Richard was a big help in the garden.. They also made some very good photos of my place, Katie is experienced with Photoshop. We had a very good time together, laughing and talking a lot..
I really hope they will come back in summer!

(Excellent)

host [Dec 17, 2009]:

-> diefeh

Susanne is an incredible person, I can recommend her 100%.. She made a woodenbed for me while she was staying and it is the most beautiful bed I ever had! She is very artistic and can help with lot's of maintanence and other things..Thanks Susie and all the best for the future :-)

(Excellent)

host [Nov 27, 2009]:

-> JeppeKL

Jeppe is a really nice guy, well educated and very good spirit. He is working hard, he did the whole garden while he was here. I really can recommend him!

(Excellent)

host [Nov 02, 2009]:

-> raulsorrosal

I can definitely recommend these people! Raul is a great painter and decorated and painted my apartment wonderful. Edel is very active and always full of positive spirit and very good with kids. They brought very good and creative energy at our place and also the kids felt in love with them. Thanks for everything you have given to us, good luck for the future and I am sure we will stay in contact and meet again...

(Excellent)

host [Oct 03, 2009]:

-> farmerjason

Jason is a wonderful person we had a great time!! He made my garden a little paradise and did all kind of reparations at my apartments. He has a wonderful character, was very good with my kids (they loved him and even that he left a while ago they still miss him) and he always had a nice positive energy. I can recommend him 100%, if you have the chance that he comes to help you, don't miss it!!! Thanks for everything Jason :-)

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