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: 18 Juni 2025
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Vom Workawayer (Romain) für Host
I spent a very pleasant week with Robyn & Simon, two adorable and very welcoming people. The work was mainly garden maintenance and storing wood for the winter. It was a pleasure to be able to help them with this task.
The living space provided was a mini apartment independent of the house, sunny and very comfortable.
Many thanks for your welcome
… read more and your generosity. See you soon :)
Vom Host für Workawayer (Kevin)
We enjoyed Kevin's company and he was great to have around. He helped us with the garden as well as helping with painting two bedrooms. Kevin is polite, friendly and willing to learn new skills.
Vom Workawayer (Erin) für Host
I spend a wonderful week and a few days with Robyn and Simon. They were welcoming from the start and amazing hosts! Luckily during my stay the weather was pretty nice so I spend much of my time in the garden getting it ready for the summer! I also did a few jobs in and around the house on the unfortunate day it rained! Robyn and Simon took great
… read more care of me when my British skin was munched by the local mozzies and made sure I had plenty of delicious food! Both Simon and Robyn are great cooks and I learn a few recipes myself while I was there. They also advised of local walks and places to visit, introduced me to some Kiwi culture and even helped me plan the rest of my trip around New Zealand.
Can't thank Simon and Robyn enough, any workaday would be luck to stay in their beautiful home!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
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Waikanae River walkway - looking out to Kapiti Island
The Beach - looking out towards Kapiti Island
Another shot of our beautiful beach.
Part of our back yard. The barbecue area is just out of frame.
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Vom Workawayer (Romain) für Host
I spent a very pleasant week with Robyn & Simon, two adorable and very welcoming people. The work was mainly garden maintenance and storing wood for the winter. It was a pleasure to be able to help them with this task.
The living space provided was a mini apartment independent of the house, sunny and very comfortable.
Many thanks for your welcome
… read more and your generosity. See you soon :)
Vom Host für Workawayer (Kevin)
We enjoyed Kevin's company and he was great to have around. He helped us with the garden as well as helping with painting two bedrooms. Kevin is polite, friendly and willing to learn new skills.
Vom Workawayer (Erin) für Host
I spend a wonderful week and a few days with Robyn and Simon. They were welcoming from the start and amazing hosts! Luckily during my stay the weather was pretty nice so I spend much of my time in the garden getting it ready for the summer! I also did a few jobs in and around the house on the unfortunate day it rained! Robyn and Simon took great
… read more care of me when my British skin was munched by the local mozzies and made sure I had plenty of delicious food! Both Simon and Robyn are great cooks and I learn a few recipes myself while I was there. They also advised of local walks and places to visit, introduced me to some Kiwi culture and even helped me plan the rest of my trip around New Zealand.
Can't thank Simon and Robyn enough, any workaday would be luck to stay in their beautiful home!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Workaway-Mitglied)
It was a pleasure having Max to stay. He fitted in well with us and with all the family. He was great company and enjoyed participating in our family events.
Max worked hard and was willing to undertake whatever tasks were required of him.
We would recommend Max to other workaway hosts.
Vom Workawayer (Workaway-Mitglied) für Host
I had the pleasure to stay with Simon and Robyn for a week over Christmas. It was a spontaneous stay and I loved every second of it. I was treated like family and even got small presents on Christmas morning. I got to know many members of their family.
I helped with different things and they always made sure that it’s not too hard.
Lunch and
… read more dinner were accompanied by inspiring conversations and laughter. Simon is an awesome cook but he admitted himself that Robyn is better at making gravy. I really enjoyed helping him preparing meals.
The private space I had was more than I could have asked for.
Something that became like a ritual was watching a series on Netflix together every evening.
It was hard to leave and I didn’t want to but taking the ferry in Wellington has already been planned long ago. Sometimes you come across people and it’s like you hit the jackpot. Thank you so much.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Lara) für Host
I spend a wonderful, pretty relaxed week in Paraparaumu. (Means not that there is no work to do...)
As I came to Robyn and Simon thy welcomed me warm-hearted and it was one of the best hosts I've had in NZ. They were always open for good conversations and their flexibility of giving working hours and spare time was awesome! Furthermore I have to
… read more say they always fed me very well- I enjoyed not to have the whole time meat and toast instead having fish and good cup of coffee!
All in all a big, big Thank you and I wish you the best! Cheers Lara :)Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Ascension & Fuensanta) für Host
We spent a week enjoying the company of Robin and Simon. They are excellent hoster, the house is very well distributed so that the workaway has its own space and privacy .The house is very well located, you can walk to the town and the beautiful beach.
Thanks Simon for putting so much care into the meals!
We appreciate the details for us.We do
… read more not forget them!
Thanks for the good laughs and thanks Simon for your music!!!
A hug
Chon and FuenDu kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Audrey) für Host
I stayed 3 weeks with Robyn and Simon. 2 weeks were spent helping around the house inside (general chores involving cleaning) and outside(gardening, getting the patio ready for summer, raking leaves, etc.) and 1 week housesitting for them. They are extraordinary hosts who gave me the warmest of welcomes with a great beach house to my own to live
… read more in with tv, bathroom, and living room! The food provided is excellent! They are a great couple who is open to exchanging good conversations and very sensible to any demands. They are very stress-free and so generous and kind! I highly recommend them:)Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Audrey)
Thanks for a wonderful couple of weeks, Audrey. :-)
For any potential hosts: Robyn and I can thoroughly recommend Audrey. She's a hard, versatile and conscientious volunteer (we had to insist she take a break at times), and very enjoyable company. During her time with us, she cleaned up our garden, water-blasted our back deck area (which is a BIG
… read more job), totally cleaned our kitchen inside and out, chopped wood, weeded, swept.. and just generally got on with anything she was asked to do, as well as using her initiative to do things that we hadn't even thought about.
I'm not sure that she was even aware of it, but one thing I particularly noticed about Audrey was her sensitivity to our needs. What I mean by that is that, while she participated and engaged fully with us socially and as a valued member of our household, she also seemed to make an effort to recognise when we might just need a bit of space to ourselves. It can be a fine line to tread as a guest in someone else's home, and Audrey got it just right.
All the best for the rest of your travels, Audrey. I hope you find plenty of hosts who deserve to have you. :-)
Vom Workawayer (Mille & Akita) für Host
Our stay at Robyn and Simon's were our first workaway experience, and it couldn't have been any better!
Robyn and Simon are very fun, warm and welcoming people and we felt right at home.
They took us out on day trips and made sure we had a great time in Paraparaumu. Our time with Mary was great, she is fun and sweet, and it didn't feel like
… read more work - more like spending time with a sweet grandma :-)
Simon is an excellent cook and he made great and spicy dishes every night!
It was hard to say goodbye, and we would love to come back and visit you sometime!
Mille and Akita Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Mille & Akita)
Robyn and I are very grateful for the time Mille and Akita spent with us. Not only were they wonderful in helping to care for my elderly mother (who utterly adored them) and general household tasks, they were also really great fun and good company to have around the home. They really became a part of our family during the short time they were
… read more here, and it was hard to have to see them go when their time with us was over.
Mille and Akita are lovely, warm and friendly people who are keen to pitch in and help out in any way they can. We would thoroughly recommend them to any hosts looking for Workaway helpers.
Simon and Robyn
Vom Host für Workawayer (Katja & Frederik)
Katja and Frederik came to stay with us at short notice after another Workawayer pulled out at short notice due to illness. We couldn't have been happier at the way things turned out. These two friendly and outgoing young people fitted in with us from the moment they arrived.
One of the main areas we were wanting help in was in caring for my 92
… read more year old mother who has dementia. Katja and Frederik demonstrated genuine empathy, sensitivity and compassion in their dealings with Mum, and she responded really well to them both (she would often say, with a twinkle in her eye, that she thought Frederik was "a bit of all right"). :)
As well as helping with Mum, Katja and Frederik were very flexible and always keen to help out around the house in any way they possibly could. They fitted in as part of the family right from the start, and were a lot of fun to get to know over the time they stayed with us.
Robyn and I thoroughly enjoyed having them here (as did Mum, although, of course, she doesn't remember that she did), and we would happily recommend them to any hosts looking to take on Workaway helpers.
Frederik and Katja are here in New Zealand for about 9 months and want to use that time to get to know as many different people and places as possible. We wish them every possible success for their time here and hope that all their Workaway stays will be as wonderful for them and their hosts as our experience was.
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