Help our large and close family with ceramics, daily life and the vegetable garden in Cellatica, Italy

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: No minimum

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  • Description

    Description

    I’m French, my husband is Italian. We have 3 sons, adults and not often at home.
    We live in a big house in the north of Italy at Cellatica near Brescia.
    I’m a ceramicist and my husband taught electronic in high school but he is now retired
    We love nature, mountains, lake, bikes (we use it a lot). I like gardening and we have a big vegetable garden which would like to become community and social in the next future.

    In our family, for 20 years we have hosted women with a difficult situation (sometimes with children) for a short or a long time. It’s a voluntary service done with Caritas of Brescia. At the moment, one woman (she has three boys: twelve, seven and for years old), my healthy 94 years old mother in law and my quiet French father (91 years old) are with us.
    We have had a lot of very good experiences with Workaway over the past seven years. Woman and male workawayers interested in family life, gardening or cooking too can find a place among us.
    We would like to host and share our daily lives with someone who speaks English (but others who speak Italian or French for example are welcome as well) because my sons and I need or like the English language. We try to be a big family sharing meals, housework, gardening, childcare, talking with Grandparents and outdoor activities like cycling, walking and obviously the good moments of family life!
    We want you to feel comfortable with the work that you do, so if you just communicate with us what you like, we are flexible.

    We are active members with other hosting websites. In some years we have seen people from every part of world ! Wonderful.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Elderly Companionship
    Teaching
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    You may experience an Italian/French family experience, a feeling of living in community, village life, help with ideas for travel in northern Italy, healthy home-cooked vegetarian meals (mostly), a close knit family life, and peaceful atmosphere.

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    The exchange we would like is not complicated : share our life (cooking, gardening, pottery if you want and spending time with all of us ) speak English with me and my sons or speak Italian with our grandma or listen to her and French with my father. We can teach too some Italian or French.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    French: Fluent
    Italian: Fluent
    Polish: Beginner

    This host offers a language exchange
    This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
    You can contact them directly for more information.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    The volunteer will have his own bedroom. We can be a lot of people at home (up to 10) so the bathrooms are shared.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We live in Cellatica, a little village (4500 inhabitants) and it’s easy to reach to Brescia with the bus number 13 (25 minutes to the railway station of Brescia), and you can walk 10 minutes to bus stop easily in a safe village atmosphere. Milan is 1.5 hours away and the lakes are 20-30 minutes away. We have bikes for all too, so that you have the freedom to bike to the bus stop or somewhere else and back on your own schedule. When we have guests, it’s for us an opportunity to visit or do something together sometimes as well. There are the lakes, the mountains, cities like Brescia, Bergamo and even Venice nearby to explore.
    The nearest airport is Bergamo or Milan, depending on where you are coming from.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 369778799593

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