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Hello! We are an Italo/Greek family living in Monte di Portofino national park, quite near by Genova. We are private, we don't own any company, we're just living in paradise and trying to keep it as well as we can. We have a 6 years old daughter and a 3 years old son, they are both half Italian half Greek, as their father is Greek. We also have two cats who lives outdoor, then hens and chickens. We do work at home (I am an artist) and pretty much in the garden around home for our own consumption, with my husband we're fixing the olives that were abandoned for many years, following season works on the fields (which are very steep in this area, like terraces with stairs everywhere). We started breeding bees last year and we're planning to enlarge the beekeeping activity as we like it and we also see good results for the surrounding nature.
Feel free to ask for more infos!
Allegra and Thanos
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Politics / Social justice
Culture
Sustainability
Pets
Van life
Self development
Farming
Charity work
Music
Plant care
DIY & crafts
Books
Art & design
Photography
Languages
Gardening
Drawing & painting
Carpentry
Animals
Water sports
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Camping
Sailing / Boating
Outdoor activities
Hiking
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We can teach you Italian , Greek, olive colture, beekeeping, tomato and many other veg growing, fruit picking and drying, some taiji quan Chen style (I'm instructor) also block printing or embroider tecniques!
Au Pair Help
Further details can be found here
Projects involving children
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Help
We basically need help with children and animals and a bit of garden tasks. Everything depends on the season.
Languages
Languages spoken
Greek: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
English: Intermediate
Spanish: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
As we already speak two languages in the family, we like our children to improve them or learning others, the older one is very interested in learning english. I have to improve my greek.
Accommodation
As the house use to be a family seaside house, we have many (small) rooms and bathrooms. Then the living room is huge and kitchen too. We have the habit to eat quite early all together with children.
As family with two children, we have the habit to sit around the table and eat all together. When children are at school, sometimes, as we're running, we just make a sandwich.
There is always food in the house and since shops aren't closeby, we write a list together befor going to buy. Eggs are from our hens, honey is from our bees, olive oil is from our trees as capari and oregano, some fruit and vegetable are from the garden, depending on the season.
What else ...
The place where we do live is pretty isolated but very near to the sea, it’s perfect for people who likes hiking, nature and animals.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We do have internet connection and wifi in the house and in the garden.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
7 Bee hives (1 year)
7 Bee hives for honey production and biodiversity. Planning to have even more.
Biancaneve (3 years)
The best hen!
Pat (3 years)
He's the King of our chicken yard
Kiki (3 months)
Smart hunter and lovely female cat
Ruby (12 years)
Greek/Swiss Shepherd lovely and very old
Pizzo (3 years)
Noisy and very cute rescued cat
