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Hi guys! I am a musician who after a few years out of my region decided to enhance my heritage home and field. I love where I live because 50 meters away I have the beach and the sea for swimming, fishing with my little boat and campfires, with the mountainous Calabrian Apennines peaking through for beautiful hikes along rivers and woods where I can go in search of porcini mushrooms.
On my property there are citrus, fig, vineyard, persimmon, olive and oak trees. In one part of the field there are also my colourful chickens in a small barrack, ensuring that I always have fresh eggs.
If you have a musical instrument, bring it with you-or you can choose which one to play from the traditional Calabrian music at home!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
House sitting
Interests
Languages
Farming
Culture
Plant care
Books
Gardening
Carpentry
Music
Cooking & food
Animals
Water sports
Sailing / Boating
Outdoor activities
Nature
Mountain
Hiking
Camping
Beach
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
My girlfriend and I will be able to teach you all about traditional cooking, fishing from the boat, pruning techniques for fruit trees, Italian and especially Calabrian dialect.
Regarding music, a world will open up to you: I have a degree in jazz violin but what I love to play and study are traditional instruments, such as: frame drums (and how to make them), Calabrian lira, fiddler violin and many others.
Help
There are tasks in building renovation, restoration of wooden fixtures and furniture, green maintenance and tidying in and outside the house.
Following some examples of what you would do here:
- renovating wardrobes and chairs
- restoring old doors and windows
- creating wall cabinets with recycled materials
- painting walls
- little maintenance of the house
- making jam/ preserves food
- deep cleaning the house
- building a wood stove
- tidying up the gate along the garden
- renovating the chicken coop
- reorder warehouse from bulky objects
- wine grape harvest
- olive harvest
- green maintenance in general
Moreover it is important for us that you help us by cooking or setting the table or washing the dishes and keeping cleaned your own space (bedroom, bathroom and kitchen), especially before you leave.
We'll organise the work day by day, depending from the weather forecast as well. We ask you to work about 5 hours per day and you'll have 2 days off that we can decide together based on both sides.
First experiences are welcomed, although we'd prefer those with some experience who can bring valuable insights. By the way, flexibility and initiative are appreciated!
We'll have lunch time with something light and sometimes we can have dinner together making fresh pasta / pizza / barbecue.
During your free time we don't provide food.
There is no internet connection (sometimes we can give you Wi-Fi through our personal hotspot).
Near our house there are no bus station, you have to reach the village center (about 2,5 km). If you have a car it is better to move here around. If you don't have it, we can of course pick you up from the train station/ bus station when you arrive and bring you back.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
My girlfriend and I would love to have the opportunity to learn new languages or to improve the ones that we already know, while teaching our Italian!
Accommodation
You will have independent lodging with a bathroom, kitchen and bedroom.
It is possible that you have to share the bathroom and kitchen with other work-awayers.
What else ...
From home (located in Fuscaldo Marina) to the nearest station there are 3.6 km. On the same route are the post office, pharmacy, small stores, bars, and restaurants. The supermarket is also easily accessible at 1.4 km.
The historic center Fuscaldo is perched on the hill 350 meters above sea level, 6.6 km from Fuscaldo Marina. The center is famous for its medieval architecture, called “the Land of a Hundred Portals,” from which comes the great school of master “Scalpellini” sandstone workers.
The largest town on the coast is Paola, 10 km away, where the main station is also located and from where you can easily reach major cities such as Cosenza, Diamante, Amantea, Pizzo Calabro, and Tropea.
Paola is also very suggestive to visit: it is a tourist-bathing destination of the Riviera of San Francesco, visited annually for its beaches and historical-architectural-religious heritage.
The main airport is in Lamezia Terme (Sant'Eufemia), easily reached by train and bus.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Argo
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Even though my English isn’t fluent, they were always patient and eager to communicate and share their culture with me.
By living together, I was able to experience the Italian culture in ways that I could never have understood otherwise. Surrounded by nature, life there was truly amazing.
I collected eggs… read more
Very good time spent together!
Very helpful and nice!
We have spent very great moments playing music together while shared culture and meals.
Highly recommended!!
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Even though my English isn’t fluent, they were always patient and eager to communicate and share their culture with me.
By living together, I was able to experience the Italian culture in ways that I could never have understood otherwise. Surrounded by nature, life there was truly amazing.
I collected eggs… read more
Very good time spent together!
Very helpful and nice!
We have spent very great moments playing music together while shared culture and meals.
Highly recommended!!
Kind, flexible, helpful in every kind of work, ready to learn new things.
We have shared such good time together aside from work with culture and meals.
Highly recommended!!
