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Share meals, company, exchange tasks and skills in Auckland, New Zealand

Availability

  2026 

 Min stay requested: 1 week or less

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  • Description

    Description

    Tisha and i live on a 10 000m2 property 39 mins north of Auckland City on the banks of lucas creek were you can explore the upper harbour on kayak, swiming and or fishishing are a past time with many locals enjoying the parks with cycle and walking tracks a short distance away as far as tisha and i we live in a 5 bedroom house with a garden flat that would become your home whilst staying with us and apart from sharing meals and eachothers company we have a swimming pool and spar to enjoy and what seems to be inportant to many is space to refit a van in preperation for your trip around New Zealand. In return we need help maintaining the property from creating paths, gardening, stacking firwood there always somthing to do even when it rains we can find somthing inside so check us out And lets hear about you

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Light gardening
    Creative DIY projects
    Help around the house
    Light maintenance
  • Interests

    Interests

    Technology
    Sustainability
    Politics / Social justice
    Events & social
    Charity work
    Plant care
    Music
    Gardening
    Art & design
    DIY & crafts
    Cooking & food
    Architecture
    Animals
    Water sports
    Beach
    Nature
    Sailing / Boating
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Tisha and i have 3 adult children 2 living in Auckland and 1 in Austraila we are well traveled and understand the needs of travelers enough to help them plan there ongoing experiance and ready to pass on our knowledge about New Zealand and the pacific that may help as tge travek through the area

  • Help

    Help

    We are looking for people who enjoy life and are willing to help and share our there experiance people who take pride in what they do willing to learn or teach us new skills in the past people have biult pathways cut and stacked firewood cleared sections of the bush of weeds and pest plants to re-establish natives plants. And we dont mind you taking over the kitchen or using the workshop

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent

    This host offers a language exchange
    Although we only speak English we have traveled though out the world Europe. Asia, south and north America and find we can communicate Andy lived in malaysia so can get by in Malay or Indonesian Tisha was born in Hong Kong and has no connection with any chinees dialect but we are good at charades

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    The garden flat kingsize bed shower and wc airconditioning internet tv if required as for meals breakfast you will have the run of the kitchen fresh eggs from our chickens normaly home made bread good coffee and friut lunch again us often left for you toi raid the fridge leftovers from dinner the night before salads theres always somthing good in the evening Tisha and I normaly cook and just need to know what you like and if you want to cook no problem we are always wanting to try differen foods and its a great time to share stories

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    We have fiber with unlimited connection

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    Plenty of space to park and connect to power if reqired

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

    Bentley (7 years)

    Shitso

Host ref number: 531688618148

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