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Description
We are a couple - two English guys in our (early) 50s - who've had great fun making a wonderful life in Tuscany for 20 years after many years in London. We speak English and also fluent French and Italian. We are fully integrated into local village life and have mainly Italian friends. We have our own house and next to it three cottages that we rent out for holidays, plus a small swimming pool. When possible, our Workaway friends will be given their own cottage to stay in.
Our property is 3.5 hectares and quite steeply terraced. We have 100+ olive trees and large areas of mixed woodland. We would love help with maintaining the land and particularly with clearing brambles with a bush whacker / strimmer. However, outside work will be varied. If the weather is bad, there is always decorating / painting inside.
This is a beautiful place and we're sure you'll be very happy here. We expect you to work hard, but we'll also make sure you have a really good time and take happy memories with you.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are English Europeans who speak three languages; Italian, French and English. We have lived here in Lucca for nearly 20 years and have embraced rural Tuscan life.
We have many Italian friends here, as well as friends and neighbours from northern Europe, Turkey, Australia and America.
Before dinner we'll take you to the village bar for the aperitivo hour and introduce you. Here you can practice your Italian, if you like.
Help
Essentially, we need help with land clearance, as we have have an ongoing battle with brambles on land that is quite steeply terraced. Help with tree felling and log chopping also required. Volunteers should be happy to use a bush whacker / strimmer and a chainsaw.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Accommodation
When possible, volunteers will be given their own 18th century, small stone cottage with sitting room, kitchen, bedroom and shower room. Log fires for heating and gas boiler for showers / hot water. Cute, atmospheric, historic - but very clean - accommodation! Meals will be shared together in our house.
What else ...
The charming and unspoiled small city of Lucca is just 18km away. By train: Firenze / Florence 90 minutes; Pisa 45 minutes; Coast / Versilia Riviera / Viareggio 45 minutes. Train station 5km away at end of valley. Lifts to train station no problem.
We want you to work hard, but also want you to experience and enjoy local life and culture and have a good time.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (12)
Joe has used a back pack strimmer to clear our steep olive terraces in temperatures… read more
He worked extremely hard for us, using his common sense and intelligence to get things done extremely well. He did a variety of work, but mainly strimming / bushwhacking with a petrol driven, back pack… read more
I stayed two weeks and I had an amazing time with Adrian and Christopher! They are both very caring and welcoming, and I always felt comfortable with them. Their place is stunning and volunteers get to live in an entire cottage. They provided me with 3 delicious meals every day and they were always available to help… read more
We got along really well since the beginning when I arrived and shared all meals together. They even showed me… read more
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Joe has used a back pack strimmer to clear our steep olive terraces in temperatures… read more
He worked extremely hard for us, using his common sense and intelligence to get things done extremely well. He did a variety of work, but mainly strimming / bushwhacking with a petrol driven, back pack… read more
I stayed two weeks and I had an amazing time with Adrian and Christopher! They are both very caring and welcoming, and I always felt comfortable with them. Their place is stunning and volunteers get to live in an entire cottage. They provided me with 3 delicious meals every day and they were always available to help… read more
We got along really well since the beginning when I arrived and shared all meals together. They even showed me… read more
If Workaway had 10 stars they would get 11 from me. The food the company the conversations, the… read more
Callum worked extremely hard, fulfilling all the responsibilities we asked and completing all the jobs we gave him with enthusiasm, commitment and skill.
He always did more than requested and was always eager to lend a hand, whatever the task. I would… read more
Adrian & Christopher are genuine, honest, fun, lovely people. They have blown me away by the constant attention to being excellent hosts. I was made to feel one of the family more than a random… read more
I must say that my time with Christopher and Adrian was more than any work-awayer could have asked for, or worked for.
From the minute I arrived to the moment I left, they were sure that every need and want I could have asked for was well… read more
i was also… read more
