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Mountain home, help with garden and maintenance in Taormina, Sicily, Italy

  • Last activity : 31 Oct 2024

Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: 1 week or less

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  • Description

    Description

    We live up a mountain in the back lands of Taormina in 650m above the sea. We look at Taormina and Castelmola, the Mount Venus and the sea from above and are surrounded by untarnished nature, piece and quiet. We are: my mom (75),a retired film editor, originallyfrom south of Germany, who has been living in Sicilyfor 15 years and I (45), a graphic designer from Berlin. We are joined by 7 cats and 2 dogs and normally some chickens, but their castle needs rebuilding first, which is be one of the many things we need help with...

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Since we live here we are part of the local society here, so you'll get an inside view of people and country . But the main attraction is the house and its location. You'll enjoy staying in and with nature and working in it will (re) connect you with the earth and yourself. Doing yoga in the morning for example, going for walks without meeting anyone else etc. On the building projects we will work together and teach each other how to build and construct and if you want learn some Italian along the way. My mom will teach gardening and building a typical Sicilian dry wall etc. I show you how work with wood and construct and if you want spike your creativity a bit :)
    And of course we will do yoga together, cook and spend the evenings playing games / talking etc :)

  • Help

    Help

    It's a big terrain, with garden terraces, olive trees and so on. So if there are enough olives this year we would need help collecting olives for oil, constructing a terrace platform, a compost toilette, refurnishing the fences and many little things that need repairing or maintenance.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Italian: Intermediate

    This host offers a language exchange
    This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
    You can contact them directly for more information.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We have a apartment with 2 bedrooms (each has a 2x2m bed) and a sleeping couch in the main room, which is shared. It consists of a living room area, a kitchen and a dining area. The bathroom has a shower and toilet. The apartment has its own entrance and a little terrace in front. There are plenty of parking lots, if you want to come by car (which is recommended!) and space for a van down the road.
    If you want to camp, you can set up anywhere in the huge garden and use kitchen and bathroom in the apartment. We will cook for all at lunch or dinner, depending of what is planned that particular day. We will organize that together.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Since the house is remote and the roads are steep and curvy and not too good, we recommend a transport vehicle, like car, motor bike, vespa etc.
    Walking distance to Castelmola is 45 minutes. That's the next bus station to us. It leads to Taormina or Giardini Naxos by the sea (about 15 minutes) or the train station Taormina-Giardini. Trains to Catania and Messina or even Siracuse part every hour.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    We have wifi, but it's not too fast. Watching a movie is fine, but video calls or downloads/uploads take forever... And we value our privacy, so we don’t want to be part of Insta stories etc ;)

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We have a lot of space. Please contact us for more details

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    We have a dog and 7 cats, so your pet should be calm with them.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

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    Hours expected

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 813694999599

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