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Hello dear traveller,
We are a couple (Fabienne & Martin) living and working in Roveredo, a small village in the Swiss Mountains. Since the beginning of this year we are also new and proud parents to our daughter Aluna.
Our House, garden and vineyard could need your helping hands. =)
We used to do a lot of Workaways ourselves while backpacking in Thailand and bike packing in New Zealand and Canada. During our Workaways, we made some of our most cherished memories of our trip. That's one reason we want to be hosts now as well. 😊
We would love to get to know you, and we would love to show you our place we call home.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.
All the best for you.
Fabienne, Martin & Aluna
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You would get to know our place, and you would have a lot of time to explore all the beautiful places Switzerland has to offer.
Our native language is Swissgerman, but where we live in Switzerland, the native language is Italian. We are still learning the basic here =) But we can communicate in German, English and a little French.
We are open to show you or point you to some of our favourite places – depending on where your interests lie.
Help
Our Projects for the year 2024 🥰
> Garden and Vineyard project ⛰
Here we would like to create a more permaculture like garden which grows food and has some animals in the future and also to make it a more whimsical place to relax and enjoy nature. Our Vision with the vineyard is to transform our vineyard into a biodynamic "berry-good", which has all different kinds of berries and other vegetables growing in the vineyard.
Your help would be appreciated:
- lots and lots of weeding 😁
- tending to the stone walls (cleaning them out from weeds and ivy)
- watering the garden
- cutting grass
- planting
- landscaping
- building garden bed's
- preparing a place for future chickens
- new ideas and your wishes are more than welcome =)
If you have experience or expertise with natural stone walls, that would be very helpful. Because we are very new to this and could use some guidance. =)
> The Babysitting and Household project🙃
We love to have a smooth and low maintenance household. So we would like some help with running our household and taking care of our little baby. It would be nice to have some help with cleaning, cooking, baking, do some washing and all the things going on in a household. We would love to have somebody who would like to spend some hours with our baby, and if you speak Italian, it is a big plus for us. 🥰
Here we could use your help with:
- helping with the household
- babysitting our little one
- cooking meals and baking
- cleaning
- preparing and cleaning our bnb
- sanding wood beams in our downstairs flat
- beautify the house with art
- new ideas and your wishes are more than welcome =)
If you can imagine helping with the garden or the house or even both..we would love to welcome you here to our little family. ☀️
If you choose to live and work with us for some time, we would like to split the everyday chores like cooking, cleaning, washing etc.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask...
We love to hear from you.
Fabienne & Martin and Aluna
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Italian: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We would love to learn new languages, at the moment we are learning Italian because we moved to the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. So if you are fluent in Italian, we would love to learn from you. Our native language is Swissgerman, and we are both speaking German, English and a little French. Therefore, we could help you with learning German or English.
Accommodation
You will have your own bedroom and bathroom in our house. The Kitchen will be shared.
If it works for you, we would like to offer food (vegetarian), if it is okay for you to alternate cooking and washing up. Depending on how you like to organize your day, you can have breakfast with us or prepare something for yourself at your own time. We would appreciate the opportunity to enjoy a meal together from time to time...if you like that as well. 😊 For Lunch and Dinner we could alternate with cooking, if you are around, if you are of going out to explore something you are free to prepare yourself a picnic to go.
What else ...
Roveredo is located within the southern Swiss Alps, just where mild southern climate meets high mountains. It is a place where wine grows in front of snow-capped mountains. If you are into hiking or biking, there are endless beautiful valleys to see and explore. If you are more the cultural type, the city Bellinzona, capital of Canton Ticino, is only 10 km away. From there you will reach Locarno, Ascona, Lugano and its lakes within less than an hour. Bellinzona is also the gateway to reach Milano or the German part of Switzerland like Lucerne or Zurich.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We both work our jobs remotely from home. So if you would like to work remote as well, that would be no problem. 🙂
Can possibly accept pets
We have quite a lot of Garden around the House, which your pet chould enjoy.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4 hours a day, 5 days a week
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We also enjoyed the conversations during our time together with Callum. He is very thoughtful, and it was a pleasure… read more
We wanted to thank you for the nice work you've done in our vineyard and garden. We are so very happy with your effort. It was a pleasure having you, and we loved to taste your traditional Italian food you prepared for us. We loved to speak our beginner Italian with you guys. Thanks for teaching us some words.
You both are… read more
We have loved working in the Vineyard and we hope that you could make your own wine sooner!
The house is on the top of Roveredo with a pretty view over the valley. The time we spent together it was fun and we… read more
We thank you very much for your visit and your help with clearing the vineyard and weeding of the walls and freeing the rock from now on called: Kiwi-Ridge. Sweet as 👍🏻 We did appreciate your help a lot and the vineyard looks so much better now, from near and far. 😁🙌🏼 😁 We also loved all the yummy food you cooked up for… read more
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We also enjoyed the conversations during our time together with Callum. He is very thoughtful, and it was a pleasure… read more
We wanted to thank you for the nice work you've done in our vineyard and garden. We are so very happy with your effort. It was a pleasure having you, and we loved to taste your traditional Italian food you prepared for us. We loved to speak our beginner Italian with you guys. Thanks for teaching us some words.
You both are… read more
We have loved working in the Vineyard and we hope that you could make your own wine sooner!
The house is on the top of Roveredo with a pretty view over the valley. The time we spent together it was fun and we… read more
We thank you very much for your visit and your help with clearing the vineyard and weeding of the walls and freeing the rock from now on called: Kiwi-Ridge. Sweet as 👍🏻 We did appreciate your help a lot and the vineyard looks so much better now, from near and far. 😁🙌🏼 😁 We also loved all the yummy food you cooked up for… read more
Thank you so much for visiting us. It was a true pleasure having you around. We are still mind blown by the work you did with the vineyard - it looks stunning 🙂 - and the "lost-stairs" to the vineyard too. Thanks a lot for that. You are both extremely hard-working and we want to thank you for all your work you did for us.
And… read more
Their house is just a little bit outside of Roveredo, we could reach the Village center in a 10 min walk. We had a car, so it was easy to move to the surroundings, the region is beautiful, so green and still fresh in summer.
The house is beautiful, quite big and we could have our own privacy… read more
From the very beginning we felt… read more
We thank you very much for your visit and your help with the weeding of the garden and vineyard stairs and for building the water drainage..it does look absolutely amazing, we are very impressed.. 👍🏻🙌🏼 Also, the shelf for the B&B and the Planters look like new. 😁 We love it and are very thankful for your work.
It was an… read more
Fabienne is so sweet and always asked if we needed anything and if we felt comfortable. She cooks amazing organic vegan/vegetarian meals which are… read more
We really enjoyed the 2 weeks with you. Amazing what you accomplished in this short time. Claudia is a very courteous, lovely and hard-working woman with a love for details. She did amazing work on our wooden beams, and we are so thankful for that. Felix is very strong, motivated, resourceful and hard-working as well, and he… read more
We were lucky enough to have our first workaway experience with you.
Your hospitality and general pleasure in welcoming us made us feel right at home.☺️
Helping you in the vineyard and other things gave us a huge pleasure, we really wanted to give you something back for making us feel so comfortable in your home but… read more
We thank you very much for your visit and your help with the vineyard and the stone stairs..it does look absolutely stunning.. 👍🏻🙌🏼 The sanded and painted outdoor-chair looks like new.. We love it. It was a pleasure having you around, and you will keep a special place in our heart as our first wonderful Workawayer..🥰
We… read more
We want to thank you so much for your visit and for the creativity you brought into our home.. Thanks so much for your amazing mural art work you painted for us.. you are truly a wonderful artist.. 🥰 we love your art sooo much.. it gave the two rooms such an incredible atmosphere..🙌🏼🙂 We will always think about you while admiring… read more
Thank you so much guys ❤️🥰
