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Hey everybody,
***Last update 10/5/21***
Currently looking for help in painting/deawign a mural for our outdoors center, so any artist interested in giving a hand please drop us a line
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My partner Dirk and me (Maria) have chosen to live in the North part of mainland Greece, Central Macedonia, Goumenissa at Mount Paiko region after traveling and living around the world. After Aug 2012, in our family, we also have our oldest son Achilleas and after October 2014 our youngest Arionas!
The small town is located at the foothill of mountain Paiko, our perception of 'heaven on earth'.
We are into all short of projects, on tourism promotion and outdoors activites for this area, along with running a small traditional guesthouse ('home away from home' as our guests describe it!) and we are also renovating our home at a small village next to Goumenissa, called Pentalofo.
Goumenissa, the town where the guesthouse is located, is a 4.500 people town, at the foothill of Mount Paiko, where one can find five visitable wineries, a music culture of self taught brass band musicians and a few bars and tavernas, quite vivid during summer and less busy during the rest of the year.
Mainly we are interested in getting some help with preparing and working in the garden, and when the weather does not permit help with the everyday work we do at the guesthouse and the house maintenance...or our boys' maintenance! :-)
We are looking forward to receiving structured, visitors that
- share our passion for nature and working outdoors
- are willing to share knowledge and experience, teach us what they know, but also to learn from us
- are broad-minded, easygoing and appreciate the value of laughter and humor in life!
- are willing to help us around on our daily duties and plans
- take initiative and are self-motivated in contributing
- have ideas and positive energy to contribute to the development and marketing of this area we live in.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Projets artistiques
Pratique d’une langue
Aide avec des éco-projets
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Aide informatique/internet
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
Your help could be offered along the week or in 4-5 days so that you get the time to jump on a bus and get to Thessaloniki (second largest Greek city) in an hour drive and from there access through bus service the beach resorts of Chalkidiki and Pieria region or spend some time in the nearby cities of Giannitsa, Edessa, Veria and more or...simply trek and free camp on magic Mount Paiko.
--IMPORTANT--
We would prefer not to commit on time schedules and plans until we first get to spend one week with you, to get to know each other better, and see how our 'chemistry' works out!
Also, please make an effort to arrange your travel plans in such a way so that you can reach our place by 18:00 hrs. Having two small children makes it a bit hard for us to pick up from the bus station and also be around for helping our visitors to orientate on their first hours with us, if these hours are late at night.... ;-)
Looking forward to your applications...
Langues
Langues parlées
Allemand: Courant
Greek: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Hollandais: CourantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
Hébergement
What we can offer is private accommodation in the guesthouse service rooms (room for 1 or two people with private bathroom) or in our in our house guest room, use of all guest house common rooms and wi-fi internet access as long as...a place in our table and access to our fridge! If you are a good cook, then let's exchange recipes and take shifts in cooking!! :-)
Autres infos...
We can only feel good with positive people around us, who are interested in getting to know us....so if you have some kind of huge mess you need to sort out....and you feel like spending most of your time here alone...please don't bother coming!! ;-)
We HIGHLY appreciate people who can take initiative and do not need to be asked all the time to do things. Our day routine is pretty much straight forward...we totally understand that people would have things to ask or that they might need to know a few things before they start really contributing....but after certain experiences we had with travellers, what we don't understand, is why people would get into all this trouble of entering the network and start arranging visits to people, UNLESS they have sth to offer or a contributing, mutually exchanging mentality!!!
ALSO, again based on our experience with travellers, in case you plan to spend your days off not in travelling, exploring, experiencing, tasting and you choose to just stay inside and rest please know in advance that on most of the 'day-offs' of our visitors we also make our own plans. You are of course welcome to stay and follow your needs, but you will also need to make your own arrangements for your meal plans since we are probably less around on those days! Thank you! ;-)
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Directions on how to get here (GOUMENISSA, in KILKIS region AND NOT Igoumenitsa (PORT))
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The closest airport: Thessaloniki (SKG)
From Athens : You need to reach Thessaloniki first, via bus, train or a flight, from there there is regular bus service
By bus from Thessalonik : Reach Thessaloniki Central Bus Station (KTEL) from there is a regular connection to Goumenissa (you get your tickets from the kiosk of KILKIS region, aprox 9 euros). It runs almost every hour and it's 75 kms drive, aprox 1.5 hour NW to Thessaloniki to reach Goumenissa, which is the terminal stop.
When In Goumenissa ; You may get of the bus at the 'ROXANI' stop (a coffee place that is now used as a bus stop). You may walk along this road, towards the same direction as the bus direction, and you meet the guesthouse on your left after 500m -it is the only one in Goumenissa, so ask for "HOTEL" any local- , right after the central square and the taxi stop you meet us on your left. It's max 10 mins walk to our place.
Alternatively , let us know on which bus you are on. We could make an effort to be at the bus station when you arrive if needed.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il aimait accueillir les digital nomads.
Espace pour garer des vans
Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Deux
Nombre d'heures attendues
25hrs per week
Feedback (14)
We spent a pleasant day with them cutting and storing firewood, followed by a great festive meal with everyone!
We would have loved to spend more time with them to get to know them better!
Thank you for these moments spent by your… read more
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We spent a pleasant day with them cutting and storing firewood, followed by a great festive meal with everyone!
We would have loved to spend more time with them to get to know them better!
Thank you for these moments spent by your… read more
We happened to arrive at the time where a lot of things were going on at the guest house, but that was nevertheless a lot of fun, and this way we got to meet really interesting people who stayed at this super cosy and home-like guest house. Spend a lot of evenings sitting by the fireplace whlist… read more
It was my first time of workaway and so many good things to feedback :)
I mainly helped housekeeping and babysitting, and I also could experience accompanying a tour for their guests!!
The room was very comfortable and great, and food that Maria makes is too… read more
Work wasn 't too hard and i had the opportunity to explore the beautiful surrounding area, as the Paiko Mt, the local river and the awesome vineyards.
Hope to see you again!
Quiet, efficient, easy going and smiley!
He transmits his positive and calm energy to everyone around him!
Physically strong and persistent with everything he is assigned to do, a perfectionist and hard working !!
Very simple as a person and a minimalist in every sense....doesn't need a lot to… read more
You are a great person to have around!
Humorous, easy going and very quiet and discreet!
Very hard working, takes his time but delivers whatever task has been assigned to him!! Having his own means of transport, makes him very flexible and also capable of making good use of his free time without much dependence on his hosts. Quite… read more
It was my first experience but I didn't think to be so welcome by their guesthouse and for sure I wasn't expecting to enjoy so much working in the vineyard with Dirk. I might go back some time, see you soon guys!
How can we use words to describe these two!!??
From the first day they arrived there was an excellent spirit of communication and mutual understanding! Bev, is calm, sweet and smiley, always there and willing to give a hand in whatever might be needed. She got along greatly with our at the time 1 year old son.
Greg,… read more
What made his visit special, is the fact that he is really good in listening and learning, even in fields in which he has no experience. As a person, he is fit, very positive and always willing to give a hand (or… read more
kev
Eventhough we could not help much in the hotel, they both did quite a job in integrating us in their way of life as… read more
