Damien & Valentin

France
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We are 2 Friends that met while traveling in New Zealand 8 years ago, where we experienced Workaway for the first time, and visited many diverse hosts.

Then we kept travelling together in UK, Italy, Greece, Ireland, alternating between Road trips and Workaways.

We helped in backpacker hostels, cultural and meditation centers, environmental projects, and pruning/picking fruits.

Through this journey we then are greatful to have acquired various skills as we helped welcoming clients, in the kitchen, cleaning and housekeeping, learned about the basis permaculture and helped in gardens and orchards.

To be more precise on both of us in our working lives,

Valentin is a barista in a big mountain restaurant and loves the contact with people, living experiences in communities, and learn new things.

Damien is a versatile, logistics manager in the same restaurant. He loves doing various different things, this way there is no routine.
In this restaurant we are a team of 20 people, it's a real pleasure to work together as a team and feels like a real community.

We both love to meet people from all over the World, Travel in a meaningful way by bringing value to the world.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Life at a Farmstay
Charity Work
Art Projects
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
General Maintenance
Eco Projects
Helping around the house
Animal Care
Hospitality/Tourism
Helping with Computers/ Internet
Able to teach about:
Languages
More details about your skills
Help with tourists, bartender, serving food and helping to cook, choping and splitting wood, pruning, animal care, gardening, painting jobs, cleaning, .. I like to learn new things. I can help to teach English as well!
Age
31 & 29
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
  No
- Special dietary requirements

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24 Nov 2020

Left by Workawayer () for host (Learn about permaculture and ...)

I came to Christina, Nina and Marco's place for 10 days, I really liked the experience!
It's hard to find people more open-hearted than them.
The place we stayed (accomodation) with the others volunteers is amazing and independent, it's a big room where you can practice many activities like yoga, cook, everyone can leave his/her mark on the… read more

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5 Aug 2020

Left by Workawayer () for host (Come stay in a magical Valley ...)

We spent an amazing week at this place! River is a super nice guy, open-hearted and a great cook! He always wanted us to be as comfortable as possible and gave us good tips about what to visit/where to hike in this breathtaking valley that he loves deeply, and we understand why.
We also had a chance to meet Chiara, Ale and other wonderful people… read more

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5 Aug 2020

Left by host for Workawayer ()

It was an absolute pleasure having Damien with us here. He and his friend Valentine brought good energy, creativity and produced some amazing videos and drone shots that we can use to promote our project. Good workers, respectful and funny, any workaway host would be lucky to host Damien and Valentine. We hope to see you again some day!

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19 Jul 2020

Left by Workawayer () for host (Eco-site in the mountains, ...)

I spent an amazing time heres, Annette and Bernard are open-hearted persons, really passionated about what they're doing, which is raising environmental awareness of children through games, shows and stories for example. I did help to create content for these games, to prepare the show area and public bathrooms for summer. There are plenty of… read more

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24 Nov 2020

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5 Aug 2020

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19 Jul 2020

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9 Sep 2019

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Thank you so much for coming to help in our Meditation Centre.
We have many volunteers here from all over the world and Damian
Was a great help to create a better place for people to come meditate and improve themselves.
Hope you enjoyed your stay

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13 Aug 2019

Left by Workawayer () for host (Volunteer at a peaceful ...)

I spent an amazing month volunteering here. I met lovely and open-minded people, both volunteers, monks and other residents. We had great conversations and differents points of view about life topics, which is really helpful to think deeper about it.
Moreover, it was awesome to see the place evolve during the setting up of the summer… read more

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13 Mar 2019

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help at a registered ...)

Thanks so much for all that great time.. Probably my best experience in New Zealand. I was here last June and decided to come back to spend my last two months in this peaceful place.
I don't have enough words to describe all the good moments that I lived here.
The staff is so friendly, open-hearted, open-minded, and always make sure that you feel… read more

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28 Jan 2019

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Damien came and spent almost 2 weeks staying with us. He is a really lovely young man, and was very easy to have around. He worked hard, and nothing was a problem. Damien was keen to join in on activities and was always fun to be with. He has excellent english and appreciated the opportunity to practice this at every opportunity.
We would… read more

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18 Jan 2019

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help with gardening and ...)

I spent almost two weeks there, Shelley, Stella and Finn are awesome, and the dogs so cute ! The job was good (mainly gardening, mowing and weedeating, cleaning inside when it's raining), and Shelley is really flexible about the hours and the days off. They are all really good cookers, I enjoyed all the meals with them.
A big thank you to them, I… read more

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30 May 2018

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Damien and Valentin came to stay for almost 3 weeks. They were reliable, responsible volunteers who were willing to do all tasks as requested, both in the orchard and inside. We enjoyed several informative and entertaining discussions around the dinner table, and they were very appreciative of any help or suggestions we could offer. They left… read more

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29 May 2018

Left by Workawayer () for host (Blueberry Orchard, Kerikeri, ...)

We stayed 3 weeks with Sue and Murray. It was our first Workaway experience, and it was amazing ! They are very kind and meals were delicious.
We worked about 4h per day 6 days a week, with possibility to take the saturday off if you work more in the week. We did pruning, weeding, cleaning in the Packhouse, etc. It was good to do some different… read more

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