Antonella

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👩‍❤️‍👨Hi! We’re Antonella (27) and Michele (30), a couple from northern Italy traveling since April in our beloved camper “Sauro.”
🚚We left behind city life in search of something more simple, sustainable, and meaningful.

🌿We’re easygoing people who love nature, animals, and hands-on living.
🪨We identify as antispeciesist, which for us means respecting all living beings and opposing any form of exploitation.
🈳This perspective goes beyond animals — it’s also why we’ve chosen to stop working under hierarchical systems and instead pursue a lifestyle based on autonomy, mutual support, and community.

🐽We travel with our four beloved animal companions:
🐶•Sibilla, a sweet and shy rescued hunting dog.
🐈‍⬛🐈•Cantarello & Bubbola, sibling cats we rescued as tiny kittens in 2021.
😼•Prinus, the youngest of the crew — curious, sweet, and still a bit timid.
🌍They’re used to camper life and are very calm and well-behaved.

🛠️Our skills:
🌳•Michele is a professional gardener and tree climber, with greenhouse and outdoor experience.
🧰•Antonella is a piercer, flexible and quick to learn, with a preference for outdoor tasks. Her favorite job (despite our ethical views) was at a horse stable, due to the meaningful connection with the animals.
🫒•We are both experienced olive growers, with roots in the Rieti region (central Italy) and hands-on knowledge of pruning and harvesting.

☀️Why Workaway?
🏞️We’re on a journey to find a more conscious, off-grid lifestyle. We’re looking for places where we can learn and contribute — and maybe, find a place to grow roots.

🎁What we bring:
✊🏻Enthusiasm, skills, and hands-on energy.
🤝🏻A collaborative, positive attitude.
🍕And… we’re Italian: if there’s a wood-fired oven, pizza night is guaranteed! If not, we might try to build one.

🗣️Languages:
🇮🇹🇬🇧I🇪🇸talian, English, and Michele also speaks Spanish.

🙏🏻What we need:
Although we travel in a camper, we do need:
🚿•toilet and shower,
❄️•a fridge or access to one,
🔥•a place to cook outside the van (especially in hot summer months)

Interests

Self development

Sailing / Boating

Vegetarian or vegan

Van life

Sustainability

Politics / Social justice

Pets

Farming

Plant care

Photography

Music

Languages

History

Gardening

DIY & crafts

Cooking & food

Animals

Yoga / Wellness

Outdoor activities

Nature

Mountain

Hiking

Fitness

Dancing

Cycling

Camping

Adventure sports

Languages

Languages spoken
Spanish: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
English: Intermediate

More details about my language interests
Antonella know a little bit of LIS (Italian Sign Language) and interested in learning BSL (the british one) or ASL (the american one) -or wathever else is proposed to her. At the moment Michele's studying Finnish.

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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

Some knowledge of:  

Languages

Eco Projects

DIY and building projects

Animal Care

Helping around the house

House sitting

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Able to teach about:  

Gardening

Creating/ Cooking family meals

General Maintenance

More details about your skills

We’re both practical, hands-on people who love finding creative, low-resource solutions to everyday problems. We’re not professional carpenters or mechanics, but we’ve repaired and improved many things in our goldy oldy camper — from fixing leaks and damaged wood to making smart DIY upgrades using what we had on hand (like a cabinet door made from a tobacco tin lid!).

We prefer working outdoors and feel comfortable with both plant care and animal care.

•Antonella has worked in a horse stable and feels confident around animals.
•Michele is a professional gardener and tree climber, with experience managing over 5,000 plants in a greenhouse.
•We’re both experienced olive growers, with strong roots in central Italy (Sabina area).

We’re good in the kitchen and know how to keep it clean and running smoothly (even if we’re a bit messy in our personal spaces).
Above all, we’re adaptable, humble, and willing to learn whatever is needed to help.

Age

27

What else ...

🎵We like to listen music.
✒️We like to tattoo ourself.
🧗🏻‍♀️We are climber (level 0 but we really like it).

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  Special dietary requirements
  We are vegan