DIY Sanctuary in Lago, northern Portugal

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least 1 month

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  • Description

    Description

    We're a little family of young dreamers:
    Diane, witch, the crazy one who bought the place, started the dream, and sustains it.
    Marc, dwarf, garden master and co-investor who made the dream bigger.
    Youen/Omali, booboo, architect and project manager who makes things real.
    Sam and Leonie, handstand expert and herbalist helping us on all manual fronts.
    Joy, refugee artist slowing down.
    Pipuú, sudoku bichon, refugee creature with big pony dreams.
    We also have Tito, Lula, and Pumpkin who actively do their part of cuddles.

    We live together in a not so small paradise of 2,5 hectares of trees, old stones, and water that needs a lot of love, care, and sweat. We want to make it a sanctuary, a safe and sustainable heaven for individuals, projects, and eventually events. We are still at the beginning.

    The land is composed of a lot of spaces, old stone houses and other modern structures that need renovating, a watermill on the river, ponds, orchards, weird buildings, and a big field where we have planted a big vegetable garden and lots of baby trees. It is very hard to get an idea of it without being here, its magical atmosphere needs to be felt.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Culturally we are not a good vibe only kinda place, we value open communication and vulnerability. We feel close to the Burn community, queer community, integralism, ecology, tantra, circling, yoga, etc.
    You can learn a lot depending on which project you'll partake in, this project has a lot of layers that we're happy to explore with you.
    As a non-particularly-important information about us: Diane and Youen are French, Sam is Dutch, Leonie and Joy are German, Pipuu is Czech, Marc is a Berliner from Luxembourg, the cats are German, the dog is Portuguese :) we speak English together but a lot of languages are possible.

  • Help

    Help

    We're going to have a lot of projects happening this year, you can work on the current project and/or helping with general maintenance of the garden, cooking, cleaning, etc.
    Next projects in line for Spring:
    - Main project, renovating the main house: demolition, woodwork, stonework, insulation...
    - Water system: trenches, ponds, drainage
    - Other garden activities
    - Communal kitchen upgrade

  • Languages spoken

    Czech: Fluent
    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Fluent
    French: Fluent
    Luxembourgish: Fluent
    Dutch: Fluent
    Portuguese: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We are currently rethinking and planning the accommodation options because we're losing the main house to renovations. Depending on who's here we might have a 'room' or camping/glamping options. TBD.
    Possibility of camper vans.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Braga is reachable by bus, Porto is 45min driving, you can also take a train or bus to Porto. They're both nice cities to explore.
    Around here the riverside is very nice. The national park of Gerês is 1h away for good hikes.

  • 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 fibre optic internet and a little work space with 2 desks in the 'palace'.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We have a nice parking lot in the upper part of the property but the entrance might be too low for elevated vans. There is also a big field that can be used for vans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 4 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 631967166116

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