Painting and gardening on a peaceful villa living near Valencia, Spain

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  Description

  We are Franc and Marco, a gay couple from the Netherlands who few years ago found its dream home under the Spanish sun within orange fields, breathtaking views and farm animals in a campo next to Picassent and Monserrat only 25min away from Valencia town.
  
  We wish that during your stay at our villa you find peace in yourself, in the nature around you, that you can recharge energies, gain inspiration and inner growth.
  
  Our vision here is to create a center of consciousness where people like you can rest from the fast-paced life outside.
  
  We have a guesthouse where we often have guests who come for rest and personal growth. We provide personal retreats and treatments such as Reiki and singing bowls.
  We will take care of all activities here ourselves. A workawayers will never needs to help with cleaning or maintenance of spaces used by paying guests.
  
  In addition, we would like to open the doors of our house to receive volunteers (couples, two friends or individual travelers) from any background who would like to help us with the work listed below.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Farmstay help

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Enjoy life at our villa located in a peaceful environment with beautiful views to Valencia, Albufera and the sea.
  You’ll have access to the spacious gardens, various terraces in sun and shade and of course our large renovated swimming pool with saltwater. Better for your skin and for the environment.

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  Help

  If you want to work with us, you must love and respect nature as many farm animals live here who are like family and also have a consciousness for sustainability. Once we agree on the tasks to be completed during your stay, we give you the flexibility and confidence to manage them independently. So it is important that you help honestly and do not need constant supervision.
  
  Your tasks:
  For the coming period we are looking for someone who enjoys painting. We have a lot of fencing that needs to be repainted. Fencing around the balconies and screens in front of the windows. This task may be alternated with tasks in the garden.
  
  If you have skills to install a power cable (from the house to the lower part of our property), we would like to invite you to respond.
  
  
  People with the following additional skills, are more then welcome:
  * Creation of audiovisual content: photographers and videographers welcome!
  * Online experts: from web developers (design, SEO) to social media specialists or strategy consultants, we welcome those who can help us improve our online presence.
  * Recycling: collect the plastic bottles that people unfortunately throw away near our country. This is something we've been encouraging the neighborhood and government to improve since we moved here, but with no long-term results yet, so we're doing it ourselves and would like your help with that too!
  
  Feel free to message us if you have any other skills or passions that you think would be useful to us here!

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Dutch: Fluent
  Spanish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  We have Spanish lessons, but don't speak Spanish fluent. The collaboration could be interesting for us as well as a Spanish speaking helper who wants to learn English. A Win-win situation. And ofcource we speak Dutch fluenty!
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  Accommodation

  In exchange for your help, you will receive free accommodation in a large, comfortable caravan in a beautiful spot under the trees and close to our animals. In the house you have a renovated bathroom that you usually only have for yourself. There is a huge open kitchen with everything needed for your stay and also our casita, a cottage next to the main house that we use for meditation and reiki sessions and that you can also use as a living room. We also have different levels, gardens and terraces, so that there is always a private area available to you.
  Please note that all of these areas will occasionally be shared with other guests and with us, so cleanliness and respectful manners are important!
  
  We like to eat the hot main meal with you every day, which we usually eat around 3:00 PM. We ensure that there is enough food in the house for the other meals which you can take whenever you want.

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  What else ...

  We live in the countryside, literally between the orange fields. The nearest public transport is in Picassent, where today you can reach the center of Valencia within 30 minutes
  
  We recommend having a car
  
  For sporty people, it is easy to cycle to Picassent metro station. We know a great rental bike in Valencia that offer long-term rentals!
  
  However, if necessary, we can give you a ride to the metro station.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  we have very good internet connection in the villa, as we also work in home office and we have many spaces indoor and outdoor for you to work comfortably.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  A small campervan can be placed on our plot. A bigger one is not possible

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  Can possibly accept pets

  We accept pets as long as they get adapted to the animals living here, especially to the 3 cats who walk freely.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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