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Host rating
80 %
Last replied
26 Jul 2021
Feedback
7
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Description
My family, Giovanna, my wife, Paola, my daughter, and me, Mario, live in the marvelous corner of Maremma Region in Tuscany, surrounded by olive groves, vineyards and sweet hills, changing in colors every season. We love animals and pets, therefore we live together with our dog, Butch, our cats, gooses, goats and hens. We will be happy to host a volunteer to stay with us for 2 months, during july and august, to help us in house, in agriturism with our guests.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Creating/ Cooking family meals
General Maintenance
Hospitality/Tourism
Language practice
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learning Italian and exploring the most important touristic sites, as during our free time (more times a week), we can lead him to visit all historical villages and thermal bath of our Maremma Tuscany Region; as we are agricultural people we can teach him our agricultural traditions and Italian cooking receipts too as we love cooking.
Projects involving children
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Help
Our 1800 country house was renewed some years ago to host people and do agricultural tourism. What we are finding is an help both in house than in agriturism, to help us during the pick season where we accommodate more people, but always very few ones (at max 12 people)
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Accommodation
accommodation in caravan, just to sleep in caravan, as the volunteer will have bathroom in house, kitchen to cook his meals, of course by our food products.
What else ...
We are in the countryside, so the volunteer should have a driver license to take our car sometimes. Anyway, during the free time, we will be happy to lead him to explore our beautiful region
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
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (4)
His wife Giovanna was lovely and made sure that I felt absolutely comfortable and at home and it was very nice to spend time with her and their daughter Paola. We ate and drank like kings, eating almost only the excellent… read more
Gli auguro tanto bene se lo merita... grazie ancora ALEX.
What you can expect is to be welcomed into warm and generous Italian family, have Mario teach you how to do numerous things around the house and around the garden and to taste some awesome Italian food, some of which is made by Mario himself. During "rest hours", Mario also took me… read more
Feedback
His wife Giovanna was lovely and made sure that I felt absolutely comfortable and at home and it was very nice to spend time with her and their daughter Paola. We ate and drank like kings, eating almost only the excellent… read more
Gli auguro tanto bene se lo merita... grazie ancora ALEX.
What you can expect is to be welcomed into warm and generous Italian family, have Mario teach you how to do numerous things around the house and around the garden and to taste some awesome Italian food, some of which is made by Mario himself. During "rest hours", Mario also took me… read more
Mario, Giovanna, Paola lo consigliano come collaborazione Workaway.
Grazie Paul ti vogliamo bene!!!!
Mario, Giovanna e Paola
Paul was a great helper, always ready… read more
