Area: Tuscany

We are an English family (Charlie and Clare and our 12 year old daughter Amy and our dog benjy) who moved to Northern Tuscany 5 years ago. Since then we have been renovating our Liberty Villa in the heart of beautiful Bagni di Lucca a spa town 20 minutes from Lucca. Our villa is within easy reach of skiing in winter and beaches in the summer we have a small pool to soak away a hard days work or the Lido, spa, bars and restaurants are all walking distance. Our villa backs onto a lovely river (which is also gr8 for a dip). It's a good base to explore the rest of Tuscany from as buses are regular and the train service very simple and resonably priced.

Area: Languedoc Roussillon

Benoit is an architect/scenographer and I'm a scenic artist. I'm English, and have lived in France for the past 25 years. We have recently bought an old house in the centre of the village of Sommieres, which is a pretty, Medieval town on the banks of a small river. We are going to create 2 appartments in the building, but at the moment, there's still a whole lot to do. We dont work full time on the house, as we both have other work going on, so we have to find days in between jobs when we can work on the house. We have finished the roof and the façade, and put in new windows, so it is at least waterproof! but we still have to finish 2 kitchens, 2 bathrooms, and do all the interior work. We do not live on site at the moment, but we've made a bedroom where we sleep overnight sometimes, and the adjoining bathroom is almost finished too. We live about 45mins away, so you can either stay with us, and we'll drive over there, or stay on site. We have a futon bed in a spare room for you, plus your own bathroom downstairs, so its suitable for a couple if you're both willing to work. Its a very old stone house, and we are using old traditional methods,and natural materials, as we're in a protected area, so the rendering is lime wash, and apart from demolition and basic building work, there's also plumbing, electricty, and painting to be done,and other various jobs. Its a 4 story house, so involves a lot of going up and down a narrow stairway, which is very tiring at the end of the day.

Area: Saxony

Since 2011, the English painter Christopher and culture Developer Sven operate the former clubhouse of Stadt Wehlen as an art house. Thanks to my girlfriend and a female friend from the place we are not exclusively male business. We are networked with the other artists of the place. Wehlen is locateted in the Saxonian Switzerland directly on the National Park, the popular hiking trail "Malerweg" and the river "Elbe". We are located on the hill "Hausberg" on a Plateu about 60m high above the Elbe. In addition to the art house we operate a small cafe as a meeting place for artists, active vacationers and hikers. Behind the Art House is a 6000 sqm plot of land, which varies depending on the available labor force between wilderness and garden. From time to time we host hikers and sometimes people come to celebrate at our special place a special occasion. Apart from our dog Kalinka we hold no animals. Our season runs from Easter to end of October. We are interested in stays between 14 days and 2 months. Of this we can but differ in individual cases as needed also. We also offer spaces for couples. We take a maximum of 5 people at the same time, with singles of the same sex living together in shared rooms. The rooms do not own showers and toilets. There are communal showers and toilets. We have a communal kitchen in which we cook and eating together, but meals can also be made by the cafe. The city of Dresden can be reached by S-Bahn within half an hour driving time. We almost have a monthly ticket on the spot, so that accrue with appropriate coordination no travel costs to the city. ... Seit 2011 betreiben der englische Maler Christopher und der Kulturentwickler Sven das ehemalige der Stadt Wehlen als Kunsthaus. Dank meiner Lebensgefährtin und einer Freundin aus dem Ort sind wir keine reine Männerwirtschaft. Die sind wir mit den anderen Künstlern des Ortes vernetzt. Stadt Wehlen liegt in der Sächsischen Schweiz unmittelbar am Nationalpark, dem beliebten Wanderweg "Malerweg" und am Fluß "Elbe". Wir befinden uns auf dem Hausberg auf einem Plateu ca. 60m hoch über der Elbe. Neben dem Kunsthaus betreiben wir ein kleines Cafe als Treffpunkt für Künstler, Aktivurlauber und Wanderer. Hinter dem Kunsthaus befindet sich ein 6000qm großes Grundstück, das je nach verfügbarer Arbeitkraft zwischen Wildnis und Garten schwankt. Ab und zu beherbergen wir Wanderer und manchmal kommen Leute, um an unserem besonderen Ort einen besonderen Anlaß zu feiern. Außer unserem Hund Kalinka halten wir keine Tiere. Unsere Saison ist von Ostern bis Ende Oktober. Wir sind an Aufenthalten zwischen 14 Tagen und 2 Monaten interessiert. Davon können wir aber im Einzelfall nach Bedarf auch abweichen. Wir bieten auch Plätze für Paare. Wir nehmen bis maximal 5 Personen gleichzeitig auf, wobei Singels gleichen Geschlechts zusammen in Mehrbettzimmern wohnen. Die Zimmer verfügen über keine Eigenen Duschen und Toiletten. Es gibt Gemeinschaftsduschen und Toiletten. Wir haben eine Gemeinschaftsküche in der wir zusammen kochen und Essen können, Mahlzeiten können aber auch vom Cafe gestellt werden. Die Stadt Dresden ist mit der S-Bahn innerhalb einer halben Stunde Fahrzeit zu erreichen. Wir haben fast immer ein Monatsticket vor Ort, so daß bei entsprechender Koordination keine Fahrtkosten in die Stadt anfallen.

Area: Myjava

We own a little family farm situated in the wonderfull nature of the village Jablonka (Apple orchard) in Slovakia. We are the first breeders of the rare breed of Anglonubian goats in Slovakia. We breed also horses - Irish Tinker, Shetland Pony and P.R.E. - Andalusians. We are the breeders of Portugal Shepherd dog - Cao da Serra da Estrela - we have imported first two females and one male dog. We also produce goat cheese.

Area: Vas

We're a young belgian couple, Wouter (30) and Leen (25) and have a nice woodland in Hungary, near by the austrian border, away from 'civilisation'. Our dream is to have a smallscale, selfsustainable farm with a big hart for nature. Vegetable garden, our own cheese, beer and wine making, mushroom growing, our own oil presses, ... The more local the economy, the better. So ideally if all comes from your own ground. We do believe this world could be a better place. But we choose not to scream out that it all has to chance, but rather do it... If you believe something has to be different, do it differently ;) We are looking for volunteers who are, in the first place, nice people. We expect people to be interested, taking initiative, seeing what work needs to be done, thinking together with us about solutions. We find the best thing about Workaway the exchange of experiences. We learn something from you, you learn something from us. And by the end of the day we'll have a nice meal together. That's were its all about... In summertime, in July and August, we are looking for a longterm stay, preferable a couple. In this period we'll have tourist to stay here and we want to minimize the 'come and go' as much as possible , to keep it as tranquil as possible for us and the tourists. So we prefer if you would be able to stay here for 2 months, keen on gardening and full of enthousiasm!