Help us with daily chores for our stone house in Piedemont, Italy

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Ciao!
My partner (Peter,CH, 1966) and I (Emanuela, italy, 1970) on july 2019 become owner of a cousy stone house 150 years old!
The house is in Piedemont (North Italy) very close to Alps Mountain and the border with Swiss.

We just moved in the house, on january 2021.
There are many things to do, in the house and in the garden: move and build furniture, plastering, cleaning... To do a Project and build the garden ....
Any manual and artistic skills are really appreciate!

I have been workawayer the last 5 years (since february 2014) in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain. It has been, for me, a super great esperience.
I had no comfort but i could ecperience freedom, my fear and my courage, my sickness and my strongness. I lernt about me and others. I lernt many manual things. I have seen beautiful places, I met beautiful people.

After this nice experience, it has been spontain to decide to open and share our piace ti orher people... And We Need your help!

We wish you can have your wanderful life experience, too 😉.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
If you like, you Will have some opportunity to express your fantasy and creativity.
You can explore our fantastic village landscape!
You can lern Italiano (Peter wants lern italiano, too! ) or Deutsche (I want lern deutsche, too). If you like, we can cook togheter some special Italian dishes.
😊.
Help
We Expect 4/5 hours help per 5 days. You dont need special skills, but if you have good manuality or you have artist skills will be really appreciate 😄.
Moving materials, cleaning, plastering, sending, painting, gardening, watering. Building etc.
Languages spoken
Italian: Fluent
English: Intermediate
Accommodation
1 or 2 single beds (better for a couple) in a small room. We share the bathroon.
What else ...
Our place is 12 minutes by car from Domodossola train station (we Will come to take you up at your arrivai).
Domodossola station is 1h40 by train from Milano (Italy) and 1h40 by train from Bern (CH).
Malpensa airport is about 50 minutes by train or bus.
What to see: our village!! (Montecrestese).
Some small cities like Domodossola, Vogogna, Baveno and Stresa (on lago Maggiore).
The train tour of Val Vigezzo (100Valli). waterfall in Val Formazza.
Lakes: lago Orta,lago Maggiore, lago Antrona. The Alps
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A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
- Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
4/5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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29/08/2021

Left by Workawayer (Rebekah) for host

I spent just over a week with Peter and Emanuela, and it was one of the best times of my life. It was my first workaway experience and it was far nicer than anything I could have hoped for. Peter and Emanuela are truly amazing people; so open minded, accepting, joyful, kind, generous... The work was great too! During my stay I got to do various… read more

(Excellent )

23/08/2021

Left by host for Workawayer (Rebekah)

Rebekah Is a bublig, enthusiastic girl. It was nice to have her Energy around!
She worked hard with Joy and Power. And We had a lot of Fun with her and Sigrid (the other helper) both during the jobs and the evening games.
She was Always available to help also with houswork and could very good cooperate toghter with Sigrid.
It has been a… read more

(Excellent )

23/08/2021

Left by host for Workawayer (Sigrid)

Sigrid not only helped us a lot in the various jobs we proposed to her, but also brought her curiosity, enthusiasm, listening skills and intelligent points of view into our sometimes quarrelsome lives. She has often enriched our days with interesting conversations and has always been available to help us with our daily tasks and has been open and… read more

(Excellent )

19/08/2021

Left by Workawayer (Sigrid) for host

I spent almost three weeks with Emanuela and Peter, and I am eternally grateful for the time with them. As my first experience with workaway, I could never have wished for something better. Emanuela and Peter made me feel welcome from the first minute. They are social and open people, interested in learning about different cultures and people.… read more

(Excellent )

25/07/2021

Left by Workawayer (marco) for host

Emanuela,Frau Silvestris, e Peter,Her Camezind,mi hanno accolto nella loro casa con spontaneita',gentilezza,premura.Con lei ottima cuoca, e con lui ricercato somelier,ho passato due settimane davvero piacevoli,allietate da gite nei dintorni,lago e montagna.Vicino alla casa,belle passeggiate per chi ama camminare.Sembra uno stereotipo,ma ho trovato… read more

(Excellent )

23/07/2021

Left by host for Workawayer (marco)

We feel lucky to have met Marco.
he is a open mind, social and respectfull person. You can see that he is used to travel! We appreciated his Company for his humor and knowledge about various things and also his capability to be both social and indipendent.
He has been also able to do special jobs I could not expect from a workawayer!
He did… read more

(Excellent )

06/03/2021

Left by host for Workawayer (Teréz)

It has been a pleasure to have Terez in our home for 3 weeks.
We thanks her deeply for all the good and different works she did.
She has been flexible and able to manage many different works in the house and in the garden, from artistic painting, to hevy work like moving things, working with soil, stone and, wood. She was always helping for… read more

(Excellent )

03/03/2021

Left by Workawayer (Teréz) for host

I spent three beautiful weeks with Emanuela and Peter helping around the house. We had so much fun! I was involved in all kind of activities that you can imagine when you are about finishing renovating an old house, but mostly: cleaning out the Fienile (arranging and selecting old furnitures), making some order, restoring an old armadio (kitchen… read more

(Excellent )

28/09/2019

Left by Workawayer (franco) for host

The stay at Emanuela's house was very nice.
We spoke about life and our experiences, it's always interesting to have conversations with an open minded person.
The sorroundings were marvelous, with a lot fruit trees and great walks to do.
She was very kind, specially when i wanted to go climbing. She accompanied me with the car to the bottom of… read more

(Excellent )

08/09/2019

Left by host for Workawayer (franco)

Franco is a young man with a deep thought. He was an interesting and good company and a very useful helper. He is strong enough and loves to be precise.........so he did a great job in the barn and in the woodshed....where afterwards we were able to keep many things!
hank you Franco for your help. Have a good life! You are welcome when our house… read more

(Excellent )

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