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I am in Holland for 5 weeks
Hello, We are a Dutch couple from 54 and 60. In january 2015 we moved to Uruguay.
Hello, at this moment we are looking for one or two persons minimum stay one week. Tasks, Gardening, farmstay, animal care, cleaning and cooking.
I am five weeks in Holland and my husband is looking for some help in and around the house.
English, Spanish, German or Dutch speaking. There is a private home with kitchen available.
Please let me know if you are interested.
Greeting Jan and Marieke
We came to Uruguay to live in the nature to create and enjoy a healtier livestyle. We live on six hectares of land in the country side, but close to the beach, Atlantida city and the main road. We live in the beautiful Uruguay in Estacion Atlantida. We live here with our three dogs, two cats, four horses, 25 chickens and a big pig.
Montevideo is 45 km and de international airport 25 km. one of the houses we rent out for tourist in the high season and in the other one we live ourselves. We also have a basic but good house for our workawayers. We also have a camping place for iOverlanders. People traveling through south America with car, camper, bike or motorbike.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live in a beautiful part of the world class to nature and also the beach. You can spend time to explore and you can reach anywehere you like to go from our place by bus or we bring you there. There are also animals here. You can practise languages here too.
Projects involving children
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Help
We are looking for people who are not afraid of some physical work, are convenient with materials and keeping the life and work at the country site. We like help in the daily maintenance we have here, painting, cleaning, cooking etc.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Accommodation
Full furnished vacation home
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.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Muy satisfecho y definitivamente lo recomendaría a otros.
Gracias y Saludos Jan y Marieke
Jan and Marieke are very pleasant and funny people. Environment and surroundings are great and very beautiful.
If you looking for a good Host close to Montevideo, where you can do some meaningful work, look no further.
I recommend.
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Muy satisfecho y definitivamente lo recomendaría a otros.
Gracias y Saludos Jan y Marieke
Jan and Marieke are very pleasant and funny people. Environment and surroundings are great and very beautiful.
If you looking for a good Host close to Montevideo, where you can do some meaningful work, look no further.
I recommend.
We had the impression of spending a week with the family.
Betanque evening and meal together.
The day worked in the garden. We could leave a trace in this beautiful property. A little corner of paradise.
I hope someday I can go back to the corner to see the future changes / I think of the pool =) /
Beautiful life in… read more
For what I learnt : I could help Jan for the building of the extra bathroom and learnt basics of construction. He knows a lot about this and taught me things such as making the good mix of concrete, laying bricks, cutting bricks with the grinder, how to put in place the water tubes, and all the little but… read more
Thank you so much for our 3 weeks at the campo in Estacion Atlandida!
We are very grateful for the nice company, for Campero, Peluche & Pipa, the kilo's of asado and liters of wine, the many stories we shared and ofcourse the nice projects we carried out.
They will give you a wide variety of tasks with a lot of freedom and if you… read more
Saludos Jan and Marieke
They have three very kind and funny dogs.
Marieke can cook very good and we had a lot of varied meals.
Some work was hard, some work was easy, but we always had some nice coffee breaks.
The area around is very beautiful and you have a nice beach very close where you can go by bike.
We enjoyed the time with… read more
During the days, we worked on the new house they were building and learnt to spray texture onto exterior walls, waterproof paint the entire house, plaster windows,… read more
