Join me in the outdoors in a natural paradise in Cartagena, Spain

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  Description

  I am ecologist, naturist and zen budist. I live in a 30000 m2 property on the Costa Cálida south east of Spain at one km from the sea in the heart of a protected regional park. The property is really calm and idealic. It is a paradise.
  
  I have wonderful dogs, very playful, a lot of energy and love to give. They are great. They love to have a walk at the mountain or play at the beach.
  
  I danse salsa (cuban and Porto-Rico) bachata, kizomba and a few more. I have been dancing for more than 15 years.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet

  House sitting
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  Interests

  

  Sustainability

  

  Van life

  

  LGBTQ

  

  Self development

  

  Farming

  

  Plant care

  

  Books

  

  Languages

  

  Gardening

  

  Writing

  

  Carpentry

  

  Astronomy

  

  Animals

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Nature

  

  Mountain

  

  Sailing / Boating

  

  Dancing

  

  Hiking
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  I would like people to get to learn how to live with less everything, less things, less impact, less noise, less needs, respect environment, animals even insects (although we are not so friendly with flies!). Here you will learn how every animal is important, how to reduce your impacts and still be happy (even more). I meditate every day so you may meditate with me if you wish. I have more than 20 years of meditation and studying budism. I have also done many spiritual retreats.
  
  There are 2 little spiders (very small) in the caravan. They never move from their ceiling corner (living room area), are your best friend for hunting flies and mosquitoes, and we like them a lot, they are part of the sangha. Take this into account. They have all the right to live here, they were here before you. It can be a good way to practice your compassion and tolerance.
  
  Our place is excellent for watching animals. I can share my little knowledge of it.
  
  It might not be the best place if you want to learn Spanish though. Although I speak Spanish fluently, we usually end up speaking the language in which you are most likely to understand. As misunderstandings lead to things done in the wrong way. I would love to learn portuguese though.
  
  Cultural sharing is important, for both sides as we also learn from our workawayers. It takes time and motivation to share knowledge, this is why short stays don't make sense. I will dedicate a lot of time and energy to get to know you, share budist, naturist, ecologist values. Should you mainly be interested in cheap holidays in a sunny place near the sea, please don't contact me.
  
  If you have any kind of addiction, unhappiness, you are depressed, I understand you think a budist place would help you but here we are an extremely small community. Not only we will not be able to help you but we are also likely to be affected by your stay. Please contact a bigger community and let them know about your condition first. They will surely know better than us how to best help you.

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  Help

  Mainly sharing all our daily tasks:
  
  - gardening with us, learning about local species, invading species, how to best respect and preserve the surrounding nature; (we don't have a vegetable garden anymore, for lack of success!!!, so you will not learn a lot from us on this)
  - learning the use of our compost;
  - participate in the maintainance of our dry walls in our garden (as local cultural heritage). If the situation arise that we are doing this during your stay, you can participate. Should you have experience in this, please mention it when you contact us)
  - sharing the house cores (cleaning).
  - sharing the maintenance of the house (which does not require any qualifications, although if you have we will be very happy, maybe we can learn from you).
  - we sometimes participate in ecological actions organized by local environmental associations (removing plastics from beaches, reforestation project). If your stay coincides with one of this project, you will be invited to join in.
  - Your stay might also coincides with some solidarity actions towards animal rescuing. We are not in association, just individuals who are sometimes involved in such unpredictible situations.
  - you will be asked to recycle your trash. If you think climate change is a myth, it is preferable for both parts that you look for another place to stay.
  
  Minimum age: 26. Maturity essential.
  Minimum stay of 2 weeks.
  
  Coming with painted long nails or with huge luggage does not make sense here and will mostly be a burden for you. Life here is simple and authentic and any superficial person will not feel comfortable and be better at ease somewhere else. If you have a great sense of humour, do come here! If you are a dog trainer, we are interested to learn from you!
  
  Also if you are a strong head, get irritated when being told what to do, especially by a woman, don't even contact us.
  
  By confirming your participation you commit yourself in coming and staying the length of time that was arranged. It is a question of mutual respect. If you are likely to change your mind, please don't even contact us.
  
  Flexibility is essential in terms of tasks and hours. We ask only 15 hours per week, but it may happen that one day we have to dedicate 6 hours and the next 2 days you are totally free.
  
  Although not being part of the "work", we appreciate and expect at least some participation in the daily life (join at least some time the daily meditation walk with the dogs in the mountain for example). Don't forget our main reason to be on Workaway is cultural exchange.
  
  Due to negative experience, on departure we will check that the caravan is left in good condition and cleaned.
  
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  FROM APRIL TO OCTOBER: Because we live in a naturist environment, if you are not naturist, you will not have access to the whole property. It is essential that you are at ease in a naturist environment, in other words, in an environment where people are naked if they wish. We want everybody to feel comfortable. Naturism is not only nudism, it is a wider state of mind, with a lot to do with ecology and respect for nature, animals and other people's differences. Thanks for telling us about if you have naturist experience or not when you contact us.
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  Languages spoken

  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  French: Fluent

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  Accommodation

  A nice remodeled caravan with incredible views on mountains, in an extraordinary landscape. The caravan has 2 beds (plus one sofa bed) and a living room. The kitchen is very basic but enough to prepare simple food (a fridge and freezer, a gaz cooker). Real toilets inside. Shower outside with hot water (we are lucky to have an excellent weather almost all the time). A terrace with fantastic views. The reason why you stay in the caravan is that my house is very small (only one bedroom). Even though you cook your own food in your kitchen, we will try to gather for some common lunches during your stay, when convenient for you.
  
  The pool is only accessible to naturists and, for a variety of reasons, its access is sometimes limited. The pool might also be closed, sometimes even in summer. We voluntarily don't put pictures of the pool in our profile because it should not be a reason for you to come.
  
  Wi-Fi is provided but rural wifi, as optic fiber doesn't reach here. We have a limit of use per month so it is ok for working, a bit of youtube, some video calls, but not for watching TV or series or movies. We all need to share what is allowed to us.
  
  We will not provide food because I have a complicated diet for health reasons but you have your own kitchen and are responsible for your own food. You can buy food at a little store within walking distance (this store is usually closed 2 weeks per year, the second half of September but there is a bigger supermarket at 4km, 10 minutes of bus) . To compensate, we only require 15 hours per week.
  
  In case there is another workawayer at the same time and you come alone, you will be asked to share the caravan with this person. Max. 2 persons in the caravan so that you are comfortable. If you snore, we ask you to inform us on the first contact so as to offer you only periods when you can be alone.
  
  Our place is not adapted to children for security reasons (swimming pool).

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  What else ...

  It is necessary that you have your ID verified on the platform for our own safety. For your safety, we had our ID verified.
  
  You will have the possibility to do hiking (bring good shoes as it is quite steep, the paths are so beautiful) or mountain bike (bringing your own), go to the beach. A lot of private time. A bus stop is at 800 meters. There is a dirt road to our place. Please note that we are in a remote place and that you need to take the bus for maybe half an hour to be in Cartagena. You can walk to the beach though.
  
  Please don't come with more luggage than what you can carry as we will not provide ANY transportation and you will take public transportation. Suit cases with wheels will not roll much on the dirt road. But if you can carry it in your arms for 300 meters, then it is fine. Although if you come with a big suitcase, you will probably note at the end of your stay that you have not used half of it, it is wiser to come with what you are sure to need.
  
  Nearest airports : Murcia or Alicante. Both have bus connections to go to cartagena. Murcia is slightly closer.
  
  We expect our guests to have high level of higiene and cleanliness and to respect the calm and silence of the place. The house should be left in a perfectly cleaned condition and it is a very important requirement for us. If your family or friends have already let you know you that you leave places dirty, maybe you should reconsider your stay here.
  
  Adequate behavior is required: smoking in designated places. Reasonable use of alcohol. No visits for obvious reasons (naturist environment).
  
  LGBTQA friendly.
  
  If you have read until here, we are impressed and very grateful for this!!! Please mention the password "sunset" at the beginning of the contact mail so we know you have read our profile. We will give your mail a special attention ;-)

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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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  Can host digital nomads

  We have WiFi but it is rural WiFi which usually is very good but can not be guaranteed at all times as the provider can encounter technical problems due to weather. We might turn it off at night but should it be essential for you we can keep it running. Good 3G in the area.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We have a cover parking space for campervan with 3 point electricity plug special for campervan. ALWAYS ASK US FIRST.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  ALWAYS ASK US FIRST.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  My animals / pets

  2 dogs

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