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25 Sep 2023
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Description
We are Alice and Mel an ‘older’ female couple living in an off grid property near Santa Bàrbara, in Cataluña, Spain. We’re looking for a couple of people travelling together to help us prepare our garden/trees for the onset of winter and also some painting of the exterior of the house.
Types of help and learning opportunities
GardeningDIY and building projectsAnimal CareGeneral MaintenanceCultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our workaways will learn to live ‘off grid’. We love to cook and exchange favourite recipes. There will be a great opportunity to improve language skills as the town has little ‘tourism’…and our language is English😜
Help
General maintenance of house and patio including painting of the house exterior. General garden clearance, including weeding, strimming and planting. The pruning of our ‘shade trees’ is a priority this year so being strong and able enough to use hand saws, loppers and, possibly a chain saw is a must.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Travellers will have a private sleeping and living area, shower room/ toilet facilities. Bedding, towels, basic toiletries and laundry provided. Free WiFi. Use of pool, weather permitting. Lunch and evening meals, bottled water, tea and coffee will be provided, you can ‘help yourself’ at breakfast ....sorry but we cannot cater for ‘special’ diets….this includes a vegetarian diet. We’re happy to have families travelling together but the youngest we can, safely, accommodate should be no less than 12/13 years of age.
What else ...
Our finca is rural, 2 kilometres from a well serviced town with restaurants and bars…easily accessible on foot. We are about 15 mins from the coast and 20 mins from the Ebro delta. Because of the rural situation of our finca we feel that this placement is best suited to a couple or at least two people travelling together….also, should you wish to explore the area more your own transport would be of benefit.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Our internet connection is unlimited but not of ‘fibre optic’ speed😜
Space for parking camper vans
We have a large area for parking all sizes of motor homes etc.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (7)
He is respectful, polite, thoughtful, clean and tidy. He always really appreciated everything he was given, from the food and accommodation to the trips that we took together. He worked hard at learning English, he has a great sense humour and we had some really good and amusing conversations over… read more
🐶 The very… read more
Mel and Alice are very helpful and kind and open minded people, and we had a lot of interesting… read more
The place is magical, they have such a lovely Finca in the middle of the "campo". The place is completely surrounded by the forest and olives and almonds trees plantation. We had our own room… read more
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He is respectful, polite, thoughtful, clean and tidy. He always really appreciated everything he was given, from the food and accommodation to the trips that we took together. He worked hard at learning English, he has a great sense humour and we had some really good and amusing conversations over… read more
🐶 The very… read more
Mel and Alice are very helpful and kind and open minded people, and we had a lot of interesting… read more
The place is magical, they have such a lovely Finca in the middle of the "campo". The place is completely surrounded by the forest and olives and almonds trees plantation. We had our own room… read more
Mel was generally in charge of the work and would give us our tasks clearly and would help us with anything we needed during the day. She was always very reasonable and organised the work so it was most convenient for us.
Alice is a… read more
Something important to note is the order with which Mel keeps the day to day tasks , she knows… read more