English-speaking au pair to help and play with our children near the beach in Vinaròs, Spain

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  Description

  We are a Spanish family, Erica (36) and Carlos (39), with 2 children (5 and 2 years old) and our dog puppy Duna. We live in Vinaròs, a lovely town between Barcelona and Valencia. Vinaròs is a small city situated on the north coast of the Valencian Community, where there are beautiful beaches, official language school, free conversation groups in the adults school, several gyms, hospital, swimming pool, ... you could find a lot of things to do here. Weather is great all the year. Our house is five minutes walking to the beach, and ten minutes walking to the city centre.
  
  We’d like to share our house with a English speaking person to speak and play with our children (learning by playing, in a natural way). We can practice Spanish too, of course.
  
  We’re doctors, working 8 hours per day (8am to 15pm), we love travelling around the world, animals and the nature, walk to the mountain and play with our children.
  
  We are foodies and like cooking, usually we eat healthy real food at home, mediterranean diet (vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, legumes, rice, pasta,...) although sometimes we also bake delicious cakes and chocolates (most of time without sugar!).

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Teaching

  Babysitting and creative play

  Help around the house
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Here volunteers could learn Spanish or going to Spanish lessons (September to June), enjoy the beautiful environment, and the most important feel like a family member.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We're looking for someone to stay with us for 2 months as minimum (but we can consider shorter stays), to help with childcare and speak English with them at home. Someone who sing songs, read tales, play, and of course love children. Easy-mind, energetic, happy, creative and it would be better if you've previous experience with children. And someone who help with light household tasks (laundry, dishwasher). 3-4 hours/ day, 4-5 days/week (we have one person who cleans home once a week). We're flexible and we could understand you need free days to visit other areas. We want you feel at home as a family member.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  Catalan: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  Italian: Fluent
  English: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
  You can contact them directly for more information.
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  Accommodation

  At home you'll have your own room, 3 bathrooms, swimming pool and garden (where we grow some vegetables and we have 6 chickens!). The beach is at 5 minutes walking to home and there is a bike avalaible for you too. We've wifi. It's 45 minutes away to Castellón, 1 hour and a half to Valencia, and 3 hours to Barcelona.

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  What else ...

  There are beautiful beaches, official language school to learn languages, free conversation groups in the adults school, several gyms, hospital, swimming pool, ... you could find a lot of things to do here. Weather is great all the year. There is train station and bus station in the town.
  We can show you our area, we have some most beautiful villages of Spain near Vinaròs, like Peñiscola, Morella, Vilafames, Natural Parks : Serra D'Irta, Delta del Ebro, Benifassá, Montanejos, Sierra Espadán, ... we are near from Valencia and Barcelona by bus or train, and good communications to Castellon where is the nearest airport with connections to cities like Madrid and Sevilla in one hour in Spain, or Portugal, Italy, Germany, England, etc in Europe.

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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

  This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4 hours a day, 4-5 days a week (flexible)

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