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18 Mar 2024
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Hi everyone!
We’re Laura and David, we live in Siracusa in a beautiful ex monastery at 300 meters from the sea.
We’re artists, I’m a soprano and David is a composer. We decided to move here because of the wonderful nature and the perfect weather but we travel quite a lot around Italy and Europe due to my job.
We are parents of Donatello ( 5 years old) and Ruggero (3 years old). We’re dedicating our energies to a brand new organic farm (we started some months ago) and some help would be blessed!
We produce organic lemons of Femminello Siracusano, a sweet juicy well known lemon.
We speak Italian, french, spanish and english. I’m studying German but I’m still a beginner level.
We live in Siracusa at 10 minutes from Ortigia one of the most beautiful and charming cities of the entire Italy, unesco site and one of the best archeological site of all Magna Grecia.. No pollution at all.
We love good and healthy food and we eat super fresh fish very often:-)
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
learning Italian and French, an artistic family that can bring you to breath music and not very usual high level performances but also have a deep jump in Sicilian authentic life and enjoying the generous and rich nature here could be very interesting above all of you stay in a strategic spot like our city is :-)
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Help
The real important task for our guest will be to help us with country works. In a farm with animals and plants you always have something to do (building, repairing, taking care of animals, feeding them, gardening, cleaning the fountain, grooming the pony, helping David with the lemons or olive trees…) Also at home we could need some help but my kids go to school so it’s easier to us to ménage it. Both of them are very sweet boys full of energies. I would like that our workawayer could stimulate their mind teaching them another language or telling them about other cultures and traditions.
Being more clear about what we need our guest should work 4/5 hours a day.
For us is also important to stay in a clean and beautiful space so we try to do our best to respect the history of this charming old building taking care of it with joy and energy.
Of course our new member will have the time to enjoy her journey in Sicily and to cultivate their passions or to learn Italian if they wants to. We will organize in advance about the schedule. We are sincere and simple persons and we appreciate same qualities from others.
If you have any questions just ask.
Our guest will be really a part of our family and we will try to make them happy. We are kind and loving persons and we appreciate very much educated and loving manners.
I hope to find a new right member of our family in you.
See you
Laura
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
German: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I’m interested in improving my German and in learning other languages.
Accommodation
Our workawayer will have a private room when we’re at home and when we will travel around
What else ...
There is a bus at 300 meters that connects you with the center of the city
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (8)
Laura and David also like to share their knowledge… read more
Laura & David are wonderful people who we’re so thankful to have met. It was our first Workaway and they made us feel so welcomed. We worked in their lemon field. David gave us clear instructions so we managed to complete the tasks and working in the lemon field was such… read more
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Laura and David also like to share their knowledge… read more
Laura & David are wonderful people who we’re so thankful to have met. It was our first Workaway and they made us feel so welcomed. We worked in their lemon field. David gave us clear instructions so we managed to complete the tasks and working in the lemon field was such… read more
We spent 1 month with Laura and David and we can only say that it was an incredible experience.
They are funny and lovely people, always willing to help us with whatever we needed, help with something extra, food… read more
They had a sort of intuition about what it was… read more
Laura and Davide are really nice, kind and generous persons, they introduced me to the "Sicilian Kitchen" and they showed me some of the most beautiful city of Island!
I spent 20 amazing days in their… read more
Ha sido una experiencia fabulosa, tuve la suerte de encontrarme con una familia especial, generosa, artística.
Descubrí un pequeño paraíso del Mediterráneo con la familia creada por Laura y Davide. Disfruté muchísimo de Donatello y Ruggero, son unos niños dulces, divertidos y despiertos; de estar con todos ellos, de su preciosa casa,… read more
From the moment I arrived at their home they welcomed me in like a member of the family. Of course Laura and David had their hands full with their simultaneous tasks of raising two children and their exciting artistic work, but they always took time to check and… read more
