Gardening in a rural, scenic, setting on the west coast of Highland Scotland, UK

United Kingdom

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15
Last activity
07/10/2022
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2022

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Description
Scottish Highland village in a traditional house (converted byre) with overgrown garden. Some help with DIY etc. in house also welcome. Beautiful location, good for hill-walkers. Strong local community culture, which will hopefully soon re-emerge after the pandemic. Emphasis on environmentally-friendly living and sustainability.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Rural life-style, with good opportunities for swimming and hill-walking. Local culture, including possibly contact with remaining speakers of Gaelic. Chances, covid restrictions permitting, for meeting wide range of people. Language help from a former language teacher. Help with writing and editing from published writer. Emphasis on sustainability, care with use of electricity, home composting, organic alternatives and fairly traded goods.
Help
Help to reclaim part of garden for future vegetable-growing, and to prepare ground for bee-friendly wildflower area in spring. Some help with house and DIY. Berry-collecting and preserve-making in season, also stacking and bringing in wood for burner as needed. Help with computers.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Spanish: Intermediate
French: Intermediate
Irish: Intermediate
Gaelic (Scottish): Beginner
This host offers a language exchange
German and Spanish are very rusty, and desire to get French up to a much higher level. A former language teacher, so can help with those languages I know, including minority ones.
Accommodation
Single room for each Workaway unless otherwise arranged, with shared shower-rooms. Use of living-room, kitchen and internet. Each person responsible for cleaning own areas etc. Help with cooking welcomed but not essential. Limited meat and fish in meals, vegetarians and vegans catered for.
What else ...
Local sights include scenery, rare wildlife, historic and prehistoric sites, churches, castles. Local artists. Good sea-swimming for strong swimmers. Nearest town with train station 25 km away. The situation is a small village with a shop and post office, hotel and part-time vegan cafe in season. No t.v.
A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
- Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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(5.0)

Communication:
(5.0)

14/09/2022

Left by host for Workawayer (Sid & Karin)

Karin and Sid were here for two weeks, and joined in from the start. Even occasionally in refreshing dips in our delightfully cooling part of the North Atlantic. Lots of cultural exchange, help with house-painting, house DIY (shower now working!) technology. All the best of your journey, and hoping to see you again.

(Excellent )

13/09/2022

Left by Workawayer (Sid & Karin) for host

Wow! What a nice experience of small town living with a kind and giving host. Rosemary is the gold star of hosts. She is kind and welcoming with a deep interest in people. We worked a little, we toured a bit and we talked a lot. She took us to community and cultural events, swimming in the freezing cold lochs, and to points of historical interest.… read more

(Excellent )

12/09/2022

Left by Workawayer (Maggie) for host

Rosemary is such a welcoming host! I immediately felt at home with her and never lacked for something interesting to do! The work was varied from gardening to woodwork to painting. Rosemary made sure that I was truly immersed in village life. We went to pub quiz and multiple music evenings at the local hotel. Rosemary also took me swimming every… read more

(Excellent )

11/09/2022

Left by host for Workawayer (Maggie)

Thanks you for all your hard work, Maggie. And for the conversations, and swimming. I hope that future Workaway situations will appear and continue to enrich your journey as it will that of your hosts.

(Excellent )

27/08/2022

Left by host for Workawayer (VINCENT)

Merci pour tout que tu as fait ici!
Very good to meet you, share conversation, swimming, vists to historic sites and more.
Lovely photos of the work in progress.

(Excellent )

25/08/2022

Left by Workawayer (VINCENT) for host

Rosemay is a great host, you feel immediately at home at her place. You feel so comfortable that working in the house is very easy and Rosemary appreciates the work you do.
I enjoyed very much our interesting chats, our swims in the sea, tasting local food and taking part in the local life too. She has a very good knowledge about history and about… read more

(Excellent )

03/08/2022

Left by Workawayer (Neus & Sergi) for host

It was very great the short stay we had in Rosemary's home. Not only we tasted some typical meals from Scotland and had very interesting chats about environmental and social challenges, but she also took us to have a nice swim on the Hebrides Sea and to see the landscape in the coast near his home. She is so friendly and hospitable!
Rosemary, if… read more

(Excellent )

03/08/2022

Left by host for Workawayer (Neus & Sergi)

Great to meet , for a short time, such an interesting and joyful couple, who are both hosts and Workawayers. May the environmental commitment increase the knowledge of others of what can be achieved.

And thank you for mending the path! Keep in touch.

(Excellent )

02/06/2022

Left by Workawayer (Herle) for host

My friend Antonia and I spent some really lovely days at Rosemary. In the late afternoons, after the work was done, Rosemary took us out in her car and showed us exiting stuff around her village, as e.g., some Stone circles. She is a really lovely Person who tries to cook local and traditional. At the end, my friend and I got quite sick, but she… read more

(Excellent )

08/11/2021

Left by Workawayer (Violette) for host

Thank you Rosemary for your sincere welcome into your home and your routine. I'm really grateful that my path of life crossed yours for a little while and that I had the opportunity to learn about Scotland by your side! Taking you as my role model, you inspired me to keep travelling (who knows, next destination might be Iceland?) and being… read more

(Excellent )

07/11/2021

Left by host for Workawayer (Violette)

Merci, Violette, pour le travail dans le jardin. J'espere que tu reste chez toi ces jours, et que les etudes soient interessant.
Thank you very much for being such a good house-guest, ready to engage with everything. Keep in touch!
PS The new wood is drying and burning well.

(Excellent )

07/10/2021

Left by host for Workawayer (Kehani)

Thanks, Kehani, for the Workaway week and all the hard work with Joanna on the overgrown garden to the extent we had a tunnel to the light! Help with the cooking and a bit of internal DIY was also appreciated. Glad the camping and hostelling afterwards didn't leave you too dampened, and good luck with your onwards travels.

(Excellent )

27/09/2021

Left by host for Workawayer (Joanna)

Thanks Joanna for all the hard work, outside and inside on those rare days it rains in the west highlands! Also for your consideration over household chores. Slow worms, sea-eagles and deer were good experiences I hope. Glad the experience ended in camping with another Workaway!

(Excellent )

27/09/2021

Left by Workawayer (Joanna) for host

Rosemary is a very welcoming person. She appreciates the work that you do and is always very grateful for any extra help. She likes having company at her house and she's a great host. There were other volunteers at the house as well. During my stay, she took me for a trip around the area to see the temples, which was great. Quite often after… read more

(Excellent )

23/06/2018

Left by Workawayer (Kevin & Alexandra) for host

Rosemary is a fabulous host. the Brora area is beautiful and there are many places to discover. There are also beautiful walks and wild animals abound (deer, seals, salmons, otters, birds ...).
Her friends are very welcoming and proud to tell us the history of their region.

Thanks again to Rosemary for his warm welcome, good little dishes and… read more

(Excellent )

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