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We are looking for an experienced English (no western) rider and grooming ,preferably with dressage experience, tidy and willing.
If you had experience as riding instructor ,please let me know
Then from MID JUNE TO JULY also workawayers with experience to teach English to children and relating both with children & adults.
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We are 2 people Sadio &Donatella (,our daughter is now abroad ) ,6 cats,2 dogs and 24 horses in our family,and we run a Riding Accademy &Riding holodays farm since 1992,- offering riding lessons and hacking and trekking-and a country guest house.We are an organic farm, we try to respect nature and animals as much as possible.
She/he must be friendly, smiling , reliable, and easy going .
Please no beginners or night life lovers, because we are in a beautiful, but full countryside, many people come to the riding centre, so you ll no be alone,but you cannot easily reach town with public transport, so if you have your car it is better.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
Animal Care
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will stay with an italian family, leaving in a beautiful part of this country safe ann relaxing.
You can improove stable menagement, italian language, to look after horse s with love, improoving riding with dressage ,cross (is suitable level)and amazing hacking.
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Help
We look for help riding and getting fit the horses, keeping tidy the stables as cleaning tack or swiping the yard ,BUT WE HAVE PERMANENT STAFF.
We like to have a friendly, hard-working,sociable workawayer
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
Accommodation
The workawayers stay or in a bedroom or in apartment , they stay with us for some meals ,except breakfast because we have it very early in the morning ,but of course we provide to buy supplies for this and we have also a synergic organic vegetable garden
What else ...
We leave 8 km from Ambra or Castelnuovo Berardenga,20 km from Siena ,60 from Florence .We leave in a beautiful settlement in the Chianti area ,but we are in the country side. We are happy to meet other people that appreciated the fact to be in the nature and not looking for night life .Anyway here you'd meet many people because this is a riding centre and Agriturismo.
Previous experience appreciated.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
5 /6 hours a day 5 days a week (max 25 hours/week)
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She is also a very nice and kind company to have in the house
We really appreciated her pleasant company helping and leaving very clean her apartment.
Her presence is not invasive at all, but she is always very responsible on duty
She is a calm excellent rider, she helped a lot also to confirm our young horses on jump and cross .
We can warmly recommend her
Highly recommend anyone who wants to gain new experience with… read more
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She is also a very nice and kind company to have in the house
We really appreciated her pleasant company helping and leaving very clean her apartment.
Her presence is not invasive at all, but she is always very responsible on duty
She is a calm excellent rider, she helped a lot also to confirm our young horses on jump and cross .
We can warmly recommend her
Highly recommend anyone who wants to gain new experience with… read more
The barn is located in a… read more
DONATELLA
It was really a pleasure to have Olivia here,both for helping with horses and a very nice guest .
She is competent ,good rider,efficient , never intrusive ,reliable 100%,
tahnk you very much
I stayed nearly the whole march at Donatella and Sadios Riding centre. It was the best workaway experience I could've imagined. I stayed with another lovely workawayer in one of the beautiful apartments. Our mine tasks whilst our stay was to turn in and out the the horses, changing rugs, preparing for lessons or/and exercising horses.… read more
She is excellent rider, excellent help in all ways ,easy going ,very responsible & reliable, very kind ,a pleasure company for us and for our guests.
She takes her duty very seriously .
I recommend her with any doubt
Donatella
I spent 7 weeks with Donatella, Sadio and Caterina and it was an unforgettable stay!
I was very well received and they are very friendly. They are interesting people, they are interested in a lot of things. We could talk about horses of course but also about environment, travel, politics, ... Communication is easy because they speak Italian,… read more
It's been a few months since my stay here, and I still marvel at how much I learned there and how amazing it was!
I worked for Donna only for a month, alternating stable work with teaching English to the adorable kids staying at the centre for summer camp. I had a lot of creative freedom during the English lessons, making up games for the… read more
She is also excellent rider, competent at the stables and very reliable.
We really appreciated her company and help and we recommend warmly.donatella sadio e caterina & all the horses
Since I love horses, the work fitted me perfectly! The work always concerned the horses, such as taking them in and out, feeding them, keeping… read more
We really appreciated her company and help and we recommend warmly
Donatella sadio Caterina &all teh horses
I stayed with Donatella and Sadio for two weeks in May and it was an incredible experience. Working and living in this beautiful place contains: well-trained and lovely horses, guests from all over the world, excellent italian food, dinners with great wine and long conversations, a… read more
She was one of the best workawayers we had :friendly,smiling ,efficient with horses and in the stable,she is an enthusiastic rider and competent.The other members of the family and the staff love her and we'd like to have her back again
donatella
The landscape is just beautiful and we did a lot of rides in the nature through forests, up and down hills and passing by beautiful tuscan villages or castles.
I usually had 1 day off work (or more if needed) to explore the wonderful… read more
I did not read her profile ,because we were exchanging mail,so I did know she likes to have her bedroom and bathroom,but we found a good solution so she shared for first days with another very… read more
