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We are Kostas and Gianna. We live in Ioannina, a little town on the north-west part of Greece. We run a backpacker hostel here which we opened on June 2019. 30 minutes away from Ioannina there is a village calles Metsovo, where I, Kostas, grew up. In the village, we have a family farm with 3 fields of walnut trees. Every year there is a lot of work to do with the walnuts- collecting, drying etc. The walnuts are completely organic, no chemical products are used in the growing of the trees.
Ioannina and Metsovo are both located in the heart of the nature here in north Greece. 3 National parks surround Ioannina, and Metsovo is a part of a region with a lot of nature and villages.
This is the first year we decided to take also volunteers and make them a part of our family. We love life, we love meeting different travelers, we love music and good food, and just enjoying whats around us :)
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
Gartenarbeiten
Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
As we wrote before, Ioannina and Metsovo are both located in a beautiful and very important area of nature here in north Greece. We have a lot of knowledge to share about the nature around, the traditions in the smaller villages, and just the Greek way of living.
And if you are also a city person- Ioannina is a very young city, with a lot of students, a beautiful lake and a big scene of night life.
Arbeit
The help will be around the walnut trees- mostly collecting the nuts. Because it is an organic farm, and we don't use machines, we collect by hand the nuts that fell in the night (from the wind and the rain).
After we are done collecting, we clean the nuts and let them dry. In the village we will have lunch in an old house that is there, and there we will also clean and work with the nuts we picked.
The help will be mostly 5 hours. Other than collecting the nuts, there is a small amount of help with different kind of trees- apples and some others.
Because this is the first year we are taking volunteers, its very important for us that the people that choose to come are full of energies, eager to learn, and want to build this volunteering together with us. We are very open minded, we look forward to meeting new people and working together.
Gesprochene Sprachen
Greek: Fließend
Englisch: Fließend
Unterkunft
You will sleep in the hostel in Ioannina, which is also our home. Every morning of work we will go together to village, and in the end of the work day we will come back here. In the middle of the day we also have a house in the village to rest in. As we mentioned before, the hostel is 30 minutes by car away from the village. The beds that will be provided to you are bunk beds, and according to the number of volunteers you will either have a closed volunteer room, or one that is also mixed with travelers coming to the hostel.
As for food, either you eat with us 2 meals a day, and if not, there will be always an option of cooking for yourself. It is very important for us that you have everything you need- so when you come we can discuss what way suits you.
Was noch ...
There are a lot of hiking tracks to do in the surrounding area- such as Vikos canyon, the dragon lake and more. Ioannina is a city that never sleeps, every night and every weekend there are things happening.
Getting to Ioannina is very easy- there is an airport, there is buses from Athens and Thessaloniki and more places from Greece. There is also a train that gets until Kalambaka (Meteora), and from there you can take a 2 hour bus.
The hostel invites travelers from all around the world, so there are always interesting people to meet and hang around with.
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Wir besitzen Tiere
Wir sind Raucher
Familien möglich
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
mehr als zwei
Arbeitszeiten
Maximum 5 hours a day, 6 days a week
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Throughout the entire stay, everyone was nice, friendly, and welcoming. Kostas was also very informative about Greek history and Greece’s… read more
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Throughout the entire stay, everyone was nice, friendly, and welcoming. Kostas was also very informative about Greek history and Greece’s… read more
First of all, Gianna and Kostas are lovely and genuine people with a great sense of humour;) Always ready for a talk or a cardgame. I learned a lot from both of them in many things such as organic farming, history, nature, Greek… read more
From the fist time we felt that we know each other for a long time.
She is very hard working, smart and open mind, very kind and polite person with a good mood always!
She helped us a lot with the hostel, house keeping, laundry and she takecare our kitten Babis.
Very quickly she became a member of the… read more
Cecile and Theo stayed with us for two weeks and it was great!!!
They help us a lot with the farm and also did a good job at the hostel. Together they make a good team.
They like the nature, good food and music. Theo cooks great and Cecile is very good with computers.
They are hard working without supervision. Very clean, kind,… read more
It was the 2d workaway exp for me, the 1st one for Théo, and we couldn't dream of a better place :) The city of Ioannina was amazing, the surroundings were magnificient in automn, we met lovely people and could pet a so cute cat called Babis. We loved the city of Metsovo, we loved meeting Kosta's grandmother,… read more
As they are people they borned and growed up on a big farm that gives them… read more
For their age they were very mature and there was always a smile on their faces.
They did a great job at our farm and were also a big help in the hostel.
We recommend Rike &… read more
Walnut picking is really simple and can become repetetiv, but the great scenery makes up for that. Sometimes we helped Gianna in the hostel, which was generally really fast so we had most of the day for ourselves.… read more
