Join our land-based sharing community in Bagni di Lucca, Italy

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  Description

  We are a non-profit-making project in the process of creating a land-based venue for communal life in northern Tuscany. We have around an acre of land next to 50 miles of oak forested mountains behind us. We invite you to join us in manifesting this and becoming one of those who may choose from time to time to be part of this community we are creating.
  
  We are Robin and Slawa, we spend a little under half of our time in the UK, looking after Robin's highly disabled daughter, and the rest of the time here. We are a married couple, very much committed to creating as rich and nourishing an environment for ourselves and for any friends who may wish to join us as and when they choose.
  
  Robin is 73, English, a truck-driver from time to time, and a politician as well as his daughter's carer when in England. Slawa is 49, Polish, trained as an architect, and currently undertaking a wide range of personal growth work, including dance and the exploration of peak states. She gardens, is a buddhist, and very much aware of aesthetics.
  
  We both travel when we can, recently to visit friends in and to explore Colombia. The outhouse we are building is modelled on a Colombian farmhouse. We are looking for people to join us from time to time and also for people who may wish to be more permanent residents here.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We speak English and Polish and have a smattering of Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese. We have some gardening and building skills. We are quite competent in communication and computer skills. We are trained in therapy, in Tai Chi and in various other therapeutic, massage and nutritional skills.

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  Help

  We have a one bedroom cottage, we are building an outhouse for further accomodation and we will create more - in domes, teepees, and other low-impact dwellings. We plan to become as self-sufficient as possible. We wish to invite people to come and host their workshops here - art, therapy, dance, yoga, Tai Chi, energy workshops, healthy eating etc ...
  
  We have a web-site you can take a look at: .
  
  We can accommodate you and we can feed you. You then join in as much as you wish, from 3 hours a day upwards.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Polish: Fluent
  German: Intermediate
  Russian: Intermediate
  Spanish: Beginner
  French: Beginner
  Italian: Beginner
  Portuguese: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  We are happy to learn from you and to share our knowledge of languages.
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  Accommodation

  Accommodation may be in a bedroom, on a sofa-bed, in a tent, a dome, a teepee, or whatever you may choose to build here ... food will be nutritious vegan or vegetarian. We do not eat meat here and would like you not to eat any here too. We don't smoke and would like you not to. We do not favour recreational drugs, nor heavy drinking. We choose a healthy lifestyle and would like to share it with you.

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  What else ...

  We are 5 miles from Bagni di Lucca, a simple and pleasant town, a bus-ride away. There is a theatre there and restaurants and bars. From there a bus and/or a train takes you to Lucca, a wonderfully beautiful walled town with every cultural need catered to. Pisa is then a further 45 minutes on the train. Around us here is exquisite walking country. Cycling is also popular. In winter, Abetone, an hour away, is a ski resort. The sea and a beach is an hour and a quarter away. Florence is two hours away, three by bus and train.

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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 the internet, although it's not super brilliant as it's sent from a mobile mast across the mountains and is somewhat weather dependent. We use it and can live with it.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Large motorhomes won't make it up here. Smaller ones can get in.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Not at the moment - maybe in the future, and only if they are vegetarian or vegan.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week