Share your stories, culture and skills in Monastero Bormida, Italy

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  Beschreibung

  Hello, Buongiorno, Grüezi and Hallo!
  
  We are Katharina (38) and Sven (46) - originally from Germany, we have lived in Switzerland for 10 years and recently moved to the beautiful area of Acqui Terme in Piemonte, northern Italy. We bought part of an old house and are in the middle of renovating it to live here permanently. Right now the water is coming from a well and heating is by wood-fired ovens, but we have gas for cooking and electricity as well - it is like traveling back in time.
  
  After one year of traveling around the world with our backpacks, hitchhiking, couchsurfing and seeing how other people in different places live their lives and what makes them happy, we decided to give up our apartment at the beautiful lake of Zurich and quit our former office jobs to fulfill our dreams: Finding a place with more space and nature around to breathe and grow, a house that needs lots of love renovating it and learning how to do that, a garden to put our hands in (and get them dirty), adopting animals to take care of and bringing even more joy into our lives...
  
  Our aim is to change to a more sustainable lifestyle: producing electricity by Photovoltaik and warm water by solar thermal, collecting rain water and filter it, grow our own veggies, fruits and maybe hazelnuts (we have a big garden that we started to cultivate and a second field that our neighbor is growing grains), take wood from our small forest area, create a chicken coop and many other small projects in and around the house and garden. Our dream is to set up a food forest and adopt animals that need our help.
  
  Sven is a mechanical engineer and loves solving problems, repairing machines and tools and working with his hands. Kat is a cultural manager and loves organizing, gardening, baking bread or cakes and giving massages.

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten

  Leichte Gartenarbeit

  Kreative Heimwerkerprojekte

  Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof

  Hausarbeiten

  Leichte Instandhaltungsarbeiten
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  Interessengebiete

  

  Tiere

  

  Nachhaltigkeit

  

  Selbstentwicklung

  

  Film & Fernsehen

  

  Farmarbeit

  

  Events & Sozialleben

  

  Kultur

  

  Musik

  

  Sprachen

  

  Trampen

  

  Gartenarbeiten

  

  Kochen & Backen

  

  Heimwerken & DIY

  

  Bücher

  

  Fitness

  

  Camping

  

  Wintersport

  

  Outdoor-Aktivitäten

  

  Wandern

  

  Gebirge

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Natur
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  As we traveled a lot and experienced Workaway as volunteers, we would love to share our stories with you and hear about your own story and culture. We aim at a respectful lifestyle towards every person and nature. Let's enjoy life together!
  We are happy to cook together and share our healthy food - many of our vegetables come from our garden.
  As we are new to the area, we would love you to come along and explore the surrounding nature, villages nearby or a trip to another city around or even to the sea with us. We already made good friends with our neighbors - an Italian farmer family with vineyards and hazelnuts around. And the Expat community here is amazing as well! It is never getting boring here and there are always new people to meet and help each other.

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  Arbeit

  Tasks may be harvesting vegetables (all year around), seeding and planting seedlings (from February till September), mulching the garden and trees, watering and turning the compost - and maybe building a wooden structure for it, watering the vegetables beds during summer, planning and organizing, creating and building a small chicken coop and a greenhouse or tunnel, and much more - depending on your skills and motivation. We are open for your ideas and happy to teach you what we know, however many things might also be new to us - so let's learn together!
  We are sharing the household tasks like preparing food, setting and clearing the table, doing the dishes, taking out the trash etc. - which is a big part of our daily life and you will be part of that and not only a guest :-)

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  Sprachen

  Gesprochene Sprachen
  Deutsch: Fließend
  Englisch: Gute Kenntnisse
  Italienisch: Grundkenntnisse

  Dieser Gastgeber bietet Sprachaustausch an
  We speak some Italian already, but definitely need some more practice (Sven is a beginner while Kat is intermediate). We are always happy to practice our good English or teach you some German.
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  Unterkunft

  You will have your own bedroom with a single or double bed and a shared bathroom - we just finished renovating the upper floor. All other rooms in the house we also share like kitchen, living room, terrace, etc.
  We love to cook and bake our own bread and are happy to do all of this together, but cookings skills are not a must ;-) Now and then we also go out for a pizza. We are not vegetarian, but don't consume a lot of meat.
  It is not super remote here, but you will need a car or bike to move around. We have two old E-bikes you can borrow and are always happy to pick you up somewhere by car or drop you off.

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  Etwas mehr Information

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    Internet Zugang

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    Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

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    Wir besitzen Tiere

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    Wir sind Raucher

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    Familien möglich

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.

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  Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen

  We love pets and you are welcome to bring yours along. At the moment we don't have our own, but might be petsitting for other people's dogs (or cats) at our home.

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  Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

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  Meine Tiere/Haustiere

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