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Description
Hello, I'm Giuditta, 49, in 2020 my husband and I moved away from the city to Cascina Costabella, a country house located on a hill with a panoramic view of the vineyards of Monferrato (in Piedmont).
After having renovated the house, we have recovered the magnificent garden that surrounds the property, where it is possible to observe many botanical species, more than fifty kinds of roses and to walk among the flowers and shrubs that offer surprises in all seasons.
Now I live alone and love to meet people, share with them the spaces that we have carefully created.
I like cooking, reading, taking walks in nature.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Culture
Movies & TV
Plant care
Performing arts
Art & design
Gardening
Cooking & food
Books
Nature
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
At Cascina Costabella we will work together in the garden, prepare meals and share moments of everyday life. The Workawayer will be able to meet my friends and, if he pleases, we will make some excursions to places of culture, art and we will come into contact with an ideal territory for curious travelers in love with nature and beauty.
I can help the Workawayer to learn Italian.
Help
*** Recovering an old garden ***
Our romantic garden is really very large, during the summer I would like to recover an overgrown area, restore old flowerbeds to give it back the beauty of the past.
I host Workawayers to help me in then garden and around the house.
You don't need to be a professional gardener, we will work together and the garden will teach you a lot! :)
Languages
Languages spoken
Italian: Fluent
English: Beginner
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I can help the Workawayer to learn Italian.
Accommodation
I offer a room inside the house, located on the first floor, overlooking the garden.
The rest of the common areas are on the ground floor of the house, where there is our living room-study, the dining room and the kitchen, the terrace and the small porch, overlooking the hills and a grove, where small nocturnal birds live.
As part of the exchange, the food for the preparation of the main meals will be at my expense. We could prepare the meals together, so that this is part of the cultural exchange, if you wish. All meals are gluten-free because I must not eat gluten, but they are still delicious.
What else ...
In free time we can take some trips together, to visit Monferrato, where history, art, architecture, traditions and craftsmanship coexist in an extraordinary landscape, all to be discovered.
Sweet or steep hills, covered with woods and vineyards, offer wonderful opportunities to visit castles, villages and ancient parish churches.
Or, not far away, you can visit the small art cities of Asti, Alessandria, Casale or go towards the sea near Genoa or to the wonderful cities of Turin and Milan.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Feedback (7)
From the moment I arrived on early May and they were waiting for me at the train station, I felt very grateful and fortunate for having this workaway experience as my first one!! Mirko and Giuditta are one of a kind.
They always made me feel at home.… read more
He is an enterprising boy and willing to meet new people, he loves to speak Italian, which he already knows at a good level and which he wants to improve more and more. We had fun with him thanks to his sense of humor.
He visited us in… read more
Mirko and Giuditta are very generous, passionate and interesting people, with great taste, great stories to share and a love of their culture that was truly special to be around. The day after I arrived was my birthday, and they kindly took me to visit Turin and… read more
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From the moment I arrived on early May and they were waiting for me at the train station, I felt very grateful and fortunate for having this workaway experience as my first one!! Mirko and Giuditta are one of a kind.
They always made me feel at home.… read more
He is an enterprising boy and willing to meet new people, he loves to speak Italian, which he already knows at a good level and which he wants to improve more and more. We had fun with him thanks to his sense of humor.
He visited us in… read more
Mirko and Giuditta are very generous, passionate and interesting people, with great taste, great stories to share and a love of their culture that was truly special to be around. The day after I arrived was my birthday, and they kindly took me to visit Turin and… read more
The work in the garden is sometimes hard sometimes not but really enjoyable and I become motivated with the projects and coffee breaks with Guditta's delicious cookies I even… read more
He worked with us in the garden showing passion for everything we did together, he is kind, curious, respectful and interested in learning more about the Italian language and culture. His passion for video and photography does not prevent him from being a… read more
On my days they showed me many different cities and places,… read more
We are very happy to have hosted Magdalena and we are sure that wherever she goes she will bring great energy!
