Livia & Orkun

Switzerland & Netherlands
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We are currently
Travelling
Activities we are interested in:
Cycling around Europe 🚴‍♀️❤️🚴‍♂️

The slower you travel, the more you see, the less you spend and the smaller your ecological footprint is.
Our next destination:
Lithuania
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Hi there!

We are Livia and Orkun. We are slow travellers. We travel the world mostly because we're curious about foreign countries, cultures, languages, habits and human humans with their unique and amazing personal stories.

We care for sustainability as much as we can by avoiding planes, buy seasonal organic foods, buy second hand and recycle.

As well as it is very important to us to take care about the environment we also take care about our own surroundings, body, mind and soul. (Healthy food, sport, reading and meditation are important for us).

We are very easy going, not in for any luxus and we love nature. We also have our own tent with us, in case that would be handy. In general we are in to be caveman/woman, minimalist and connect with nature. This makes us happy.

Our conversations go deep when you open up.
We like to be active and come up easily with some jokes :)) Making fun and laughing is healthy for the environment and feels amazing.
Interests
Plant care
Music
Events & social
Cooking & food
Beach
Winter sports
Team sports
Photography
Hiking
Charity work
Sustainability
Mountain
Gardening
Self development
Languages
Fitness
DIY & crafts
Camping
Vegetarian or vegan
Outdoor activities
Cycling
Books
Animals
Yoga / Wellness
Van life
Politics / Social justice
Nature
Farming
Culture
Adventure sports
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Turkish: Fluent
Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
Some knowledge of:
DIY and building projects
Being an elderly companion
General Maintenance
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Art Projects
Able to teach about:
Gardening
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Helping around the house
Animal Care
Languages
Helping with Computers/ Internet
Teaching
House sitting
More details about your skills
- Maintainence/renovation & woodwork (wood cutting, wall construction, click floors, paint.. )

- Gardening & animals (from our own balcony plants to vegetable gardens, fruit trees and farm work. From our own cats to horse riding)

- Childcare & teaching (we are both teachers and we can easy connect with kids. We mostly teach English and German to kids and adults)

- Art & music (Livia loves decorating/organising interior, makes bracelets, necklaces and plays the guitar. Orkun draws comics, wall paintings, plays clarinet and works with several music and video programs)

-Videos (we travel with an INSTA360 camera and we know how to cut and edit)

- Cooking & household (We like to cook mostly healthy and vegetarian dishes and we are always interested to learn new recipes. We like to keep a place clean and organized)

- Yoga & mediation: Livia is a yoga teacher and can give yoga lessons and guided meditation

- In general (We are fast and eager learners, we work solution based, we have creative ideas and we are willing to do any kind of work. We consider us as clean, organized and responsible. We did all sorts of workaway together and easily tune in to our hosts needs as a team.
Age
35 & 42
What else ...
We are tired of many unprofessional hosts who do not maintain/update their workaway page and availability.

We like to be involved in good conversation, which go back-and-forth. If you talk a lot or tend to almost hold monologues, we might not be a fitting match.
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements
  Vegan - Vegetarisch & non-alcoholic (most of the times)

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24 Apr 2025

Left by host (Renovate an old house in the ...) for Workawayer ()

I had a lot of fun with Livia and Orkun. They helped us a lot with our fortified church in Bogeschdorf / Bagaciu. The church is now sparkling clean for the season and can be visited again. Fortunately, I also had some time to show them our vineyards and a few cities in the area and was able to get to know them better outside of work. You really… read more

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23 Apr 2025

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We had an overall very pleasant stay at Terra Regis in Bagaciu. Konstantin is an amazing host; very generous and uncomplicated. Besides that he knows a lot about the region and it's history and was happy to show us around and tell us about it. We had the chance to join a wine tasting, a winery tour, visiting cities nearby... Our job was to clean… read more

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29 Nov 2024

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Livia & Orkun were wonderful volunteers and we look forward to their return in the Spring. We are a VERY dynamic and constantly changing environment and they were both able to "go with the flow." Both the teachers and the students greatly enjoyed interacting with them. I would highly recommend them to any workaway host :)

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25 Nov 2024

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While being on the road with our bicycles from Switzerland to China we decided to do our first workaway of the trip in Bulgaria.
From all of the wonderful workaway places in Sofia this cute school spoke to us. Since we are teachers back home we thought it would be the right fit. And so it was.
Working at Pathways school was a beautiful experience… read more

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12 Sep 2022

Left by host (Help with gardening at our ...) for Workawayer ()

Thank you for your visit and all your help Orkun! It was a pleasure to have you with us. You did a great job with the children, helping them with their homeworks, and also the music studio. You have great music skills! 👌☺️ Also we enjoyed your lentil soup a lot. Thank you for sharing all your kitchen skills! 🥰

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4 Aug 2022

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In Juli you got 20 hours of sun in Sweden someone said! And you can also camp in the wild! Sweet! :D
I went bike packing from Stockholm to Goteborg and down the west coast to Copenhagen. During this trip I decided to do a week of workaway near Goteborg with Roze and the family.
I was very happy with the warm welcome I got from Roze. She was mostly… read more

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24 Apr 2025

Left by host (Renovate an old house in the ...) for Workawayer ()

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23 Apr 2025

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29 Nov 2024

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25 Nov 2024

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12 Sep 2022

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4 Aug 2022

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12 Jun 2022

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Livia & Orkun are experienced Workawayer's, who communicate their requirements and boundaries clearly and who want to get involved and work with hosts to learn and achieve as much as possible.

Don't be fooled by the "caveman/woman" description! They are both cultured people, who enjoy the good things in life as much as the simple - and both know… read more

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8 Jun 2022

Left by Workawayer () for host (Rural, off-grid farm in ...)

We stayed two weeks on the beautiful, well-organized and tidy farm with Ray, Dora, Yogi the dog, the white snow leopard kittycat :) the chickens, the goats and the sheeps. We always worked together with Dora and Ray and there was a lot of different things to do. Collecting the kaka from the animals is the key to reach fruitful soil. So we collect… read more

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25 May 2022

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Livia and Orkun are two very nice young people. Continue to work, coordinate, what the intention is (think about the work that wants to be done). Here they have worked on the land, cleared walls of blackberries and broom, mowed the land with the brushcutter, set up tents, lugged wood. They are open to new things, cook tasty dishes and work on… read more

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6 May 2022

Left by Workawayer () for host (Join me off grid enjoying ...)

We stayed one week at Ina's peaceful place. From the moment we arrived we had a good connection with Ina and were taken immediately into her daily lifestyle without the feeling that we were just workers.
She took us to activities with her friends (wave dance, dinner, singing circle, market day with lunch..) and every now and then we were invited… read more

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24 Mar 2022

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We are very thankful for the support of Livia and Orkun.
They arrived with high motivation to help us in babysitting, cleaning, painting, working with wood, trees, etc. We also had the opportunity to spend some evenings together and share more than work, they're very kind and fun people. We also appreciated a lot when they invited us to try some… read more

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11 Mar 2022

Left by Workawayer () for host (Hosting only couples to help ...)

We spended one month at this beautiful place. The moment you enter the gates you discover a long garden stretching all the way through bungalows and a meditation / yoga hall. We stayed at the last cozy bungalow on the right corner (for us the prettiest and with the best views).

Livia's work was babysitting and sometimes cleaning. Orkun's work was… read more

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16 Feb 2022

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We were very happy to meet Livia and Orkun! Nice young people. Very organized and able to keep clean and tidy house. They cook very tasty food and they love to do it Also helped us with an elderly person and did it very well! We all had an interesting rich experience!
Thank you from all of us!!!

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6 Feb 2022

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We stayed for 5 weeks with Masha and Patrick.
From the moment we arrived we we're very welcomed by the whole family including all the animals.
We we're allowed to eat and snack what we wanted. After a day of grocery shopping Patrick always came home with croissants and bakery cakes. The sugar levels were up during our stay :p

We stayed in a very… read more

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25 Oct 2021

Left by host (Come and learn new skills ...) for Workawayer ()

Livia and Orkun are wonderful people. We very much appreciated having them here in our house. They have been extraordinary organised, in fact I've not seen such level of organisation before with workawayers. The did maintenance and woodwork, they built a wooden wall, made a floor and other things, very very skilled.
And we had marvellous… read more

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17 Oct 2021

Left by Workawayer () for host (Come and learn new skills ...)

We had a great time in Roys house. We liked it so much to be part of the WG (shared flat) and to renovate a room. Roy is very generous and trustful. He showed us what needed to be done and we were very free when to do what. Also, he has a great collection of CDs which keep us motivated while working. We highly recommended to do workaway in Roys… read more

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