If you are from outside of the EU and planning to visit Portugal to work, volunteer or study, YOU WILL NEED THE CORRECT VISA. To find out more information you need to contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.
Meaning of the colours:
Workawayers needed
Possibility that workawayers are needed
No availability
By default (toggle switch to the left) hosts who have both yellow AND green indicated for the months
you have selected will be shown. If you move the toggle to the right ONLY hosts who have indicated
green will be shown.
Meaning of this:
By default (toggle switch to the left) will show hosts who have ANY of the months you have chosen
marked as available. This means that some of the months might be marked red (no availability.) If
you need to see ALL of the months you have selected as available move the toggle to the right.
We are a couple with 2 daughters. Our move to the country side serves the purpose of having a new experience. Although we continue to work remotely, we are developing our knowledge about gardening, farming and land care. In a near future we also ......
We're a family of four from Germany. Over the past years, we've traveled all across Europe and Africa in our beloved 52-year-old restored Mercedes truck, even crossing the Sahara Desert twice!
A year and a half ago, we traded our home on wheels for ......
Hello! We are a family of three and we live at a lovely quinta close to Tomar. The quinta is work in progress, we live here with our little boy of three years old, two dogs, chickens, two terrace cats and lots of visitors on the edge of a tiny ......
Hello, my name is Irene and I have a Sanctuary, a non-profit organization, for senior dogs, dogs who are sick and need extra care, and dogs with a handicap. We also have other animals; horses, cat Simba, goat Max, and chickens.
It all started in ......
We are a Dutch retired couple .
UNFORTUNATELY MY WIFE HANNIE PASSED AWAY IN JULY !!!
you must be able to cook for yourself i take care of the things you need for it.
And we been living 20 years in Portugal
We live in the middle of Portugal, near ......
We are a Portuguese-American family of 3. We have a five-year-old son, three dogs and three cats. We have been in our home in Central Portugal for about four years, and we have been slowly building up our homestead: creating a self-sustaining ......
My name is Pedro and I'm a freelancer graphic designer & illustrator living in the bucolic county of Sertã deep in the Portuguese countryside.
It was in the inspiring depths of Portugal that I chose to reinvent myself. Among quietness, rurality and ......
We, Angelika (70) and Christof (68) are living in an old shist-house at the edge of the village Chã de Alvares in the mountains. The house is completely restored with 4 rooms, 2 guestrooms, kitchen and bathroom with solar warm water.
There is a ......
Hi I have retired and bought a small farm of 6000sqm near the beach at Figueira da Foz Portugal, We have land but no animals. I am a yoga teacher, a builder, architect, farmer, and cook. I was born in New Zealand, lived most of my life in Australia, ......
Hello,
My name is Jurrie (67). I’m originally from The Netherlands but live in the Beiras/Central Portugal full time for more many years. Recently sold our holiday park where we have hosted many volunteers over the years (see reviews until 2023). ......
Hi, we are Lynne and Nihal. We have a beautiful old farmhouse, in a rural area but also only ten minutes from the beautiful beaches of Sao Martinho and Nazare. It is close to the beautiful city of Alcobaca which has a famous monastery and a spa. We ......
I'm Scott and I've been travelling around Europe since 2004. I recently got my own piece of land to settle on where I can put into practice all of the different techniques and principles of ecological building and growing I've picked up over the ......
We look for support in this current phase of re-building and landscaping from October 25 until March 26.
Hello, we are Andi and Graciela from Bavaria. A few years ago we acquired a beautiful quinta in central Portugal, which we want to turn in to a ......
Laura and Andrew own a small farm in Central Portugal. We are committed Christians. We aim to become as self-sufficient as possible on our land, producing wood for fuel, vegetables and fruit for food and wine and keeping some livestock for meat and ......
We are a couple of retired folks who decided life could begin at 70 and on our first visit to Portugal 10 years ago fell in love with the place and its people. When we saw the place, nestled in a secluded valley, we immediately knew it was for us ......
Hi there, thanks for choosing to read our entry :))
We live on a small farm (2.5 hectares) inland of Central Portugal, 30km from the Spanish border in a beautiful wild area. From our land you can see the mountain of Monsanto (Sacred Mountain).
We ......
HELLO!! We, Cami and Iain, moved to Portugal 6 years ago on a whim, spending all our long-saved travelling money to buy this piece of land with 200 dead blackened trees, a burned out Toyota, and a ruin with four walls and not much else. Today the ......
A couple, based in beautiful Portugal, with five horses, six dogs, two cats, several chickens, and two dwarf goats. Accommodation is in a large modern caravan (maximum 2 people) next to the house plus all meals in exchange for 5 hrs a day over 5 ......
Into the Wild
Some mornings, when I wake up and look out over the valley, I still can’t believe I live here.
The trees whisper while the river hums in the background, and the land stretches out in its wild, untamed beauty. Two hectares of young oak ......
Hello!
Im Liran. 35 years old and have moved to portugal, kind of... about three years ago.
I bought a house here, which I am slowly discovering is perfect for me, in an area that I am discovering and loving more and more.
Im hoping to make ......
If you are from outside of the EU and planning to visit Portugal to work, volunteer or study, YOU WILL NEED THE CORRECT VISA. To find out more information you need to contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.
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