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We are living in a beautiful rural location only 40 minuites from Cork City.
Closest bus stop is 5km away from here.
Our Site is now a yurt holiday camp, Inch Hideaway, hosting up to 32 people at busy time during the summer.
We have 5 yurts a double decker bus and communal facilities on 2 acres of land.
Our busy time will start from June until August but we will be working most of the year on the gardens and improvments to the place.
During your stay we will be doing a range of different jobs from cleaning and turn overs, clearing the gardens, planting vegetables and looking after our animals. There will be various building and maintance jobs to be done and then during the busier times of the summer we will need help cleaning the yurts and doing the laundry (a lot of laundry!)
We are looking for independent singles or couples to stay as we only have one caravan we dont have accomidation for more than that.
So we are looking for people who are willing to get stuck in and who are just generally handy. You will be staying in a caravan while you're here and some nights you will get the opportunity to stay in a yurt if we need to keep the fires burning.
We will be expecting an average of 6hr day from you but if you are willing to do more we are very flexable with giving you plenty of time to explore the area.
We will eat lunch and dinner together and provide you with what you need for breakfast.
We usually ask for our privacy in the evenings after wash up is done.
From our site you can walk 15 mins to Inch Beach, a gem in east cork. There is plenty of activities to get involved in such as surfing, kayaking, hiking. I also have plenty of bikes if you dont have transport, the shop is 5kms away. The local bus also goes from here to Cork City
The closest shop is 5 km away.
Fabrizio is Italian and Colleen is Australian
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We both travelled a lot and are well experienced in different walks of life.
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Help
I am looking for people who are willing to help with, cleaning, gardening, various buiding projects in exchange for an opportunity to learn new building techniques although this will be very weather dependant. I need help with the veggie patch, some general gardening for example pulling back branbles and mulching the garden etc etc
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Accommodation
We will provide a caravan with a double bed.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We can plug in electricity and water but no chemical toilets facilities
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
25/30 hrs x week weather dependent
Feedback (11)
Fab and Colleen have done… read more
From the first day that I arrived, I felt instantly welcome and shared a delicious meal with everyone. Note, Fab and Colleen… read more
Thank you so much for those weeks, I’ll have the experience always in my heart.
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Fab and Colleen have done… read more
From the first day that I arrived, I felt instantly welcome and shared a delicious meal with everyone. Note, Fab and Colleen… read more
Thank you so much for those weeks, I’ll have the experience always in my heart.
I had a wonderful time. It was such a pleasure staying with Colleen and Fab!They were really welcoming and made me feel at home straight away.I learned a lot about natural building techniques, gardening and sustainability! It is a little paradise and I am so happy that I had the opportunity to spend a few… read more
We spent one month in Inch Hideway, the yurt camping of Colleen and Fabrizio. They are such lovely and funny people, always smiling, with a lot of skills to teach and a lot of experience to share.
We did a lot of different jobs, never heavy and always funny; our main jobs were manual: painting, carpentry, gardening... We also… read more
We really appreciated being included in the neighborhood community. My main goal for Workaway was to get to know local people and I really felt we had a chance to do that.
I really… read more
We are a traveling family so Peter did the most of the work so I also had the time to mind our children. The children also had a fun time. They also helped… read more
Beautiful, wonderful, useful!!!
Great experience here! I don't have all the space here to tell you what i want to say and how my full life was there, every day something different to do, every day learning a new skill! Colleen & Fabri made me feel at home since the first day in this amazing landscape, surrounded by the… read more
