Help a family with animals and daily life near Parma, Italy

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  Description

  In the middle of the country, near Parma, we are a big family, we love animals and nature. In our place there's no time to be bored... dogs, horses, donkey chicken...a big garden and a lot of land, plus teenagers and a quite big house make life busy, came and help us if you like to stay outside, if you like animals, nature and people! You will surely have fun, but you can also feel the silence and quiet of the nature around us.
  Good food and fun are here for you!

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Gardening

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We are a big family and this house is never empty, friends and helpers are caming and going all time. My sons are from 12 to 25 and they love to share experiences with our workawayers. We work with dogs, so if you like them you can learn a lot on that side too. We do train dogs, breed and groom them as a full time job, so if your passion is also related to dogs, you can came and learn your future job here! Teenagers can bring you in their word made of music, sport, art and fun. Parma is a very active lively city and it is just 20 kms away from us, lots cultural places are settle around us and you can enjoy walking on the Via Francigena wich is one of the oldest pilgrims way in Europe. Natural parks and historic places as castles are waiting for you. Noceto is also a very active village where you can practice all kind of sports. Our place is in the country but our neighbours are a nice comunity, we help eachother and we organize parties and events toghther. We belive in an easy domestic partnership, based on mutual respect, freedom and mutual help. If you have the same ideals came and join us!

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We need help mainly for animal care and gardening. We are looking for someone who can help us daily with feeding and cleaning the animals and who's able to look after dogs while we are away. We can also consider extra payment for more work.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Italian: Fluent

  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.
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  Accommodation

  We have a single room and 2 bathrooms to share with the family, the room has a service door to the outside so you can feel a bit more indipendent, if needed. Kitchen is to share with the family. We can send you more photos and videos of the accomodation if needed.

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  What else ...

  We live in the middle of the country, about 8km away from Noceto village and about 20 km away from Parma city. You can reach Noceto with a bus twice a day, but from Noceto theres a bus every hour to Parma. Fidenza and Collecchio are the closest train station and they are about 8 km away from us. Shops and bar are mainly in Noceto and Fidenza, delicious restaurants can be found closer in the country. Parma is a young city plenty of things to do, cinemas thethers and all kind of old historical buildings and museum. Fidenza is 1 h train to Milan and about 2 h train from Florence, 4 from Rome, 1 from Bologna. Seaside its just one hour away by trian as well as Appennino mountains where you can ski or walk its about 1 h driving. From our house the Parma hills starts and you can have the most marvellous walk in the country side. As all italian corner there's a lot to do and a lot to see around here...better see then read it on here!!
  We also have a small car that you can use to get to station or in Parma.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Space for parking camper vans

  It’s plenty of room to park your van in our land, this is the only option we can host also families

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  Can possibly accept pets

  yes but we need to agree before about it

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  Hours expected

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