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Beautiful island life, helping with gardening, maintenance and chickens on Alonnisos, Greece

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    April/May 2023 - I am looking for preferably a MAN or a COUPLE who would like to experience living on a beautiful Greek island and help out with gardening, maintenance, painting. There is usually some painting to be done, also sanding and painting some furniture, help with gardening and planting, watering, feeding chickens and taking care of the coop etc. If a couple I expect a little help with light cooking, especially for yourselves if you want to eat pasta etc and kitchen duty once a day. In the house at the moment are only myself, and my mother. I usually have workawayers end of APRIL and MAY and then mid SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER.
    I also need a male workawayer to spend 10 days with my Down Syndrome son from the 6th of June till the 17th June. To take him to the beach and to take him to eat out a couple of evenings.
    I DO NOT have helpers during the summer because I have Bed and Breakfast guests.

    We offer room and board, the opportunity to learn Greek and/ or Italian or English. We are English/American but speak Greek and Italian as well.We are Christians. There are plenty of activities on the island, a gym, exercise classes, Greek dancing and walking trails.

    We eat all natural food, no processed food at all!!

    You will have lots of free time to go to beaches and go out in the evenings, it WILL seem like a holiday!!!

    By the way, there is a boat company which leaves from Volos to Alonnisos. There is also another company that has a bus which leaves Athens and goes to Mantoudi, Evia and from there is a boat that is only 2 hours from Alonnisos and cheaper also.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Here there are Greek dance classes and also yoga and a gym to work out in. There are many footpaths for walking around the island to visit secluded beaches and tiny churches, boat trips that visit secluded parts of the island and neighboring islands, one with a monastery. It is also the home of the seal Monachus and there is a male seal 2 years old called Billy that likes people and visits the beaches..

  • Help

    Help

    painting, clearing the land from shrubs, gardening, feeding chickens, painting and white washing, light carpentry, using a drill, chopping wood, burning old branches etc.

  • Languages spoken

    Greek: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Italian: Fluent
    Dutch: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    You will have your own room. There are many terraces and hammocks all over for relaxation. Your room is the coolest in the summer , and it's great for one guy or a couple.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Alonnisos is a beautiful island, part of the Sporades and the main area of the National Marine Park, where the monk seal is protected. It has beautiful beaches and the cleanest water ever!!!

  • 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

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    5 hours a day 5 days a week

Host ref number: 898191573391

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