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I was with Kay in her warm house and it was a nice experience to meet her, she is funny, kind, I miss our conversations and how much we laughed, she took me to some places and I will never forget her taking me to the Highland Games, that is a beautiful memory that will stay with me forever, I felt excited to contribute my help in her cozy house,
… read more all my requests were accepted and she always tried to make me happy, any misunderstanding never prevented me from continuing to feel the same affection that I have for Kay; it was a pleasure to meet you, thank you very much for everything, you are fantastic as I have said to everyone. I will carry you in my heart and in my memories. I wish I could see you again, I would love for you to go to Colombia to take you to try all the flavors and foods there, I know you would enjoy it.
I wish that everyone who comes to your house helps you more and better than I did, that all your projects come true and that you are immensely happy.
Courtney was an excellent help to have at the guesthouse. Her range of skills and knowledge was ideal for work inside and outside the guesthouse. She is extremely committed and focused to every task you allocate and will go above and beyond to complete work to a high standard. It was a pleasure to have you here Courtney and I can't recommend you
… read more enough to your next hosts.
Safe travels, we miss you :)
I stayed with Kay and her son for 7 weeks. I really enjoyed my time and felt at ease right away. Kay and her son are friendly and so easy to chat with. Kay made sure I had everything I needed.
The home and Lodging are beautiful and Kay really puts a lot of attention to detail, care and love into her home and business. I worked 3-5 hours 5 days a
… read more week, and was able to enjoy the nature of the surrounding area during my off time. If you have a car you could see heaps of things, as the bus can limit you. However I still was able to see many attractions in the local area with bus and train.
The work is hotel type work and very manageable. Guests are great and I had lots of lovely chats with them. Also the kitchen is amazing, so if you love cooking or baking, definitely a win!
Kay had a bike for use too, and also took me into inverness town during afternoon school pick ups.
If you are looking for a family feel, with nature surrounding you and a peaceful pace of life, I would definitely recommend working with Kay.
Vom Workawayer (Dante) für Host
Me and my friend came to work in Tomatin with Kay and immediately felt at home. Kay created the most welcoming space and a great learning environment. She is a great teacher and I left with a range of new skills such as cleaning and servicing rooms, painting and gardening. She is situated in a beautiful part of Scotland which is a must see if you
… read more are travelling. My experience here with Kay overall was amazing and would definitely recommend to anyone!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Dante)
Dante is a great person to have around, she is hard working, trustworthy and has a gentle, calm manner.
Any job I gave, Dante completed to a high standard.
It was an absolute please to have Dante and her friend stay with us and I highly recommend her to any host.
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Kultureller Austausch:
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I was with Kay in her warm house and it was a nice experience to meet her, she is funny, kind, I miss our conversations and how much we laughed, she took me to some places and I will never forget her taking me to the Highland Games, that is a beautiful memory that will stay with me forever, I felt excited to contribute my help in her cozy house,
… read more all my requests were accepted and she always tried to make me happy, any misunderstanding never prevented me from continuing to feel the same affection that I have for Kay; it was a pleasure to meet you, thank you very much for everything, you are fantastic as I have said to everyone. I will carry you in my heart and in my memories. I wish I could see you again, I would love for you to go to Colombia to take you to try all the flavors and foods there, I know you would enjoy it.
I wish that everyone who comes to your house helps you more and better than I did, that all your projects come true and that you are immensely happy.
Courtney was an excellent help to have at the guesthouse. Her range of skills and knowledge was ideal for work inside and outside the guesthouse. She is extremely committed and focused to every task you allocate and will go above and beyond to complete work to a high standard. It was a pleasure to have you here Courtney and I can't recommend you
… read more enough to your next hosts.
Safe travels, we miss you :)
I stayed with Kay and her son for 7 weeks. I really enjoyed my time and felt at ease right away. Kay and her son are friendly and so easy to chat with. Kay made sure I had everything I needed.
The home and Lodging are beautiful and Kay really puts a lot of attention to detail, care and love into her home and business. I worked 3-5 hours 5 days a
… read more week, and was able to enjoy the nature of the surrounding area during my off time. If you have a car you could see heaps of things, as the bus can limit you. However I still was able to see many attractions in the local area with bus and train.
The work is hotel type work and very manageable. Guests are great and I had lots of lovely chats with them. Also the kitchen is amazing, so if you love cooking or baking, definitely a win!
Kay had a bike for use too, and also took me into inverness town during afternoon school pick ups.
If you are looking for a family feel, with nature surrounding you and a peaceful pace of life, I would definitely recommend working with Kay.
Vom Workawayer (Dante) für Host
Me and my friend came to work in Tomatin with Kay and immediately felt at home. Kay created the most welcoming space and a great learning environment. She is a great teacher and I left with a range of new skills such as cleaning and servicing rooms, painting and gardening. She is situated in a beautiful part of Scotland which is a must see if you
… read more are travelling. My experience here with Kay overall was amazing and would definitely recommend to anyone!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Dante)
Dante is a great person to have around, she is hard working, trustworthy and has a gentle, calm manner.
Any job I gave, Dante completed to a high standard.
It was an absolute please to have Dante and her friend stay with us and I highly recommend her to any host.
Vom Workawayer (Audrey) für Host
My experience here was the most amazing introduction to Workaways. Kay welcomed me and my friend with open arms and was an incredible host. She made sure to include us in activities and is a fantastic teacher. Everything was always explained very clearly and we felt we could always ask any questions to make sure the job was done well. It was such
… read more a lovely experience to be in the highlands, backing onto the woods with an abundance of walks to do and animals to see. Will always remember this beautiful place and people.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Audrey)
Audrey is a highly motivated and very capable person with a zest for life. Every job given to her was accepted with enthusiasm and completed to a high standard. Audrey has wonderful insight and maturity.
It was a pleasure to have Audrey and her friend stay with us.
I highly recommend Audrey to any future host.
Today is my last day in Tomatin. My 1.5months in a hospitality/tourism industry has grown from nil to a good-learning curve whereby the adoption of key words like eye to detail, meticulous cleaning, flexibility went up a notch.
Kay and her 9yo son, Alexander have been great hosts. Food is abundance and delicious. Work is just about right, with
… read more time to take in the glorious space/sight of the Highlands.
Kay and Alex, thank you for your graciousness and learnings of Scottish food and cultural exchange.
All the very best in going forward. Cheers.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Sergio & Carolina)
Sergio and Carol were a wonderful couple to host. It was a pleasure to have them in my family home and they fitted in very well. They worked very well together and were happy to take on any task given to them.
I really enjoyed learning about their culture, which they were happy to share, and they were interested in Scottish culture and the
… read more surrounding area. I highly recommend Sergio and Carol as workawayers, they are hard working, trustworthy and lovely people to be around.
All the best to you both :)
Vom Workawayer (Sergio & Carolina) für Host
Kay is simply an amazing person, the place looks like the peaceful part of a great movie. The work is not to hard, we had to develope some skills, but we could adapt to the work in a couple of days.
the best part is: if you have the opportunity and you like animals, they have chickens and they are very happy when you are going with food for them,
… read more that's a nice part.
a big hug and a big thank you Kay.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Joseph)
Joe was a fantastic help with getting the guesthouse ready for the season. He was happy and willing to take on any job which he completed to a good standard. I was able to confidently leave Joe attending to guests on his own and is a very trustworthy and reliable person to have in your home.
My son loved being around Joe who taught him many useful
… read more skills. In the evening Joe kindly spent time teaching Alexander chess, how to make bread (which is the best bread I've ever had, thank you Joe!) and making pasta.
I would highly recommend any host to have Joe as he is everything you need from a workawayer.
All the best for the future Joe and happy travels.
Vom Workawayer (Joseph) für Host
Kay and Alexander gave me the pleasure of a real Scottish experience.
Tomatin is a lovely, picturest little village and it had all you needed
for those who wonder what it’s like to live in the countryside.
Kay was a wonderful host who had endless curiosity for stories of
travel, life goals and a sense of adventure. The working hours were
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really fair and Kay was very good in allowing me freedom to do what
I wanted in my free time. Food was abundant and I’m going to miss those
Fresh eggs for breakfast every morning!! Kay’s son Alexander was a great
guy and is a wonderful helper in the kitchen and in the gardens. He’s curious about everything and we had some good chess battles. Thankyou Alexander keep up the pasta and bread making. Kay it was such a pleasure to help you prepare the guesthouse for the season. I’m glad those rooms are now sparkling clean!! Good luck for the season and hopefully meet for a whisky on your doorstop again one day down the track. All the best. Big hugs!!!!
Vom Host für Workawayer (Martina & Christof)
Martina and Christof came and stayed with us for 4 weeks. In that time they took on a variety of jobs - maintenance, DIY, painting, plastering and general repairs.
They worked very well together and I could leave them to get on with the work knowing they would do a great job.
Another task was wallpapering and before arriving Christof had
… read more researched wallpapering techniques - and had even bought a book on wallpapering, in order to do the best job he could.
What stood out for me with the way they worked, among many things, was the care and attention to each job they took on. They both worked meticulously and worked very hard to ensure work was completed to a high standard.
Another important point to make is how responsible and trustworthy they are in your property.
Martina and Christof interacted well and spent a lot of their spare time with my son, we had great fun in the evenings playing card games after dinner. Martina is a fantastic cook and was more than happy to prepare dinner.
Overall it was an absolute pleasure to host Martina and Christof, they are a wonderful couple and great people to be around.
I wish you both all the best and would love for you to come and visit us again (Alexander keeps talking about gemsh - excuse spelling).
Lots of love
Kay and Alexander
Vom Workawayer (Martina & Christof) für Host
We stayed with Kay and Alexander for four weeks and helped renovate the guesthouse. When painting and wallpapering, as well as with repair work, Kay placed great trust in us and we were able to work very independently. The work was very exciting and varied. We were able to plan the working hours ourselves (in consultation with her).
Kay is a warm,
… read more spirited, interested and humorous host.
We also really enjoyed the funny game evenings with her and Alexander.
We wish you both a successful and wonderful season and look forward to coming back as guests.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Tessa) für Host
It is impossible to squeeze my 4-month experience in a few short paragraphs, but I can easily say without exaggeration that my time at Kay's guesthouse was perhaps the most important and rewarding experience of my life so far.
The moment I stepped off the bus, Kay welcomed me with open arms and immediately made me feel welcome and as if I was a
… read more part of the family. I came there in May and stayed until September, so I was able to get used to the work before the peak of the season started. The workload was reasonable and never too strenuous - in the mornings, I had to prepare the dining room and serve breakfast while Kay was preparing it, then we had a little coffee break and finally I had to clean or service the rooms and maybe do some other little tasks around the guesthouse, but I was usually off the hook from early afternoon until the evening when I helped serve dinner if anyone ordered it.
Sometimes Kay asked me to look after her son, Alexander, which was an absolute pleasure, as he is the sweetest and brightest young boy who constantly kept me entertained with his intriguing questions and hilarious remarks. And don't even get me started on Kay herself, who is one of the kindest, most welcoming and generous people I've had the pleasure of meeting. I cannot even imagine how a host could be any better than this - she is very flexible, extremely patient (believe me, I've tested it alright), and which meant the most: she never treated me as just an employee. Of course, she expected me to do my work well, but she was always there to speak to me on a personal level if I struggled with anything, and we shared countless cups of tea or coffee chatting about just about anything, just as friends do. On less busy days, she even took me along with them on wonderful little trips to different points of interest, which enabled me to see some amazing places I never would've been able to see on my own.
I was there at the same time as a couple of other Workawayers, so when they worked, I had my time off (and vice-versa), which enabled me to visit and spend some time in all the main Scottish cities, and I found this system to be just a perfect combination of work experience and travelling. Plus, Tomatin and its general area are just gorgeous! It is isolated enough to be perfect for anyone who is looking for some peace, but has enough bus connections to not be completely cut off from society. I would also heavily recommend future Workawayers to take the bus to Carrbridge and Grantown, because they're just two lovely towns more than worth exploring (Inverness and Aviemore obviously go without saying).
All in all, I cannot even imagine how my experience could have been any better. I was able to call a country I'm infinitely in love with my home for a while, and I was welcomed into a home of two wonderful people who will always have a special place in my heart. I will always be grateful to Kay for all she gave me - directly and indirectly - during my time with them, and for all the lessons I've learned over that summer that will stay with me forever. I believe that anyone who will choose to join them will feel the same in the end.
(And to this day, I still have porridge for breakfast.)Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Eva) für Host
I went to Tomatin as a workaway guest, and I found not a host, - but a friend. Thank you very much Kay, for this unforgettable Scottish experience, thank you for your kindness, for all the good laughs and discussions about everything under the sun and all your valuable advice. You deserve 6 stars.
I had an amazing stay with Kay and her son
… read more Alexander, 5. Upon my arrival I became part of the family. It was a matter of sharing really. Kay is relaxed but hard working.
Work was seeing what needed to be done, and get it done, and also deep cleaning the guest rooms (which were already clean). A little bit of everything: cooking, cleaning the kitchen, doing all kind of household chores, also looking after Alexander. He is such a bright, lovely and well behaved boy, it was always a joy to be with him. Work was easy and the work time fair. Kay constantly reminded me to take a break, or to eat more, or to put the heating on in the guest rooms I cleaned, she is the most caring person. My dietary needs, my privacy and the fact that I sometimes like going to bed really early was always respected.
Kay and even Alexander were always very grateful and appreciative.
Her beautiful victorian guesthouse in Tomatin is next to a distillery (can be visited), rural and good for hiking, nature, getting to know the rural way of life in the Highlands. I met some of her neighbours, they are open and friendly - (as all Scottish people in my experience). Tomatin is a small village, the walk from the guesthouse to the community shop takes about 30 minutes. There is a good bus connection to Inverness or Aviemore, but as I stayed with there at the end of the tourist season, Kay would also drive me to Inverness, if there was time.
I was offered one week's holiday with the family, and it was a special first experience for me, holidaying in a caravan in a caravan park further north. At first I was a little bit afraid of living in a caravan, not knowing what to expect, and afraid it would not have any kind of heating - but alas! - the caravan was so well heated that it was actually HOT. Kay went out of her way to show me the beautiful Scottish countryside - the North Coast 500 route - never before have I seen such amazing beautiful landscape - it really is the ultimate road trip. We encountered so many stags and deer! Thank you Kay!
Accommodation: as it was the end of the tourist season, some guest rooms were empty, Kay gave me a big and very beautiful guest room, warm, very good bed, private bath room; however, I saw the room she usually gives workawayers, and can recommend it: a single bedroom, with private bath room perfect for one person, clean and cozy.
I learned a lot about Scottish culture, tradition and even language. I got a glimpse of what it means to work in a guesthouse - and I am grateful for this experience. I learned to make beds hotel style.
Food was always plenty, and if I wanted, I could prepare a lunch or dinner. For the first time in my life I ate kippers for breakfast, which I rather enjoyed, because the fish is smoked and very tasty.
Kay is warm-hearted, considerate and always well-balanced and friendly. She is generous, honest, hard working and ... I am lost for words ... thank you Kay and Alexander, I wish you all the best, and I hope to be able to come back sometime in the future.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
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