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Travelling
Activities i am interested in:
I'm in Ireland now! DIY, gardening, animals care, homeworks, general maintenance. See my profile! Manlio
My next destination:
Ireland - from Feb 2025 until May 2025 View all
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About me, my skills, my life project
Hi! I am a 53-year-old teacher, separated, with no children. About myself I can say that colleagues, students and friends find me a sociable, proactive, responsible person, moreover qualities that I consider necessary to do my job and spend my life well. I am passionate about cinema, literature, radio programs, but above all I love outdoor life. I try to spend as much time as possible in natural environments, I like walking in the mountains but also make long foot trails between history, nature and art cities. I like animals, I have a dog (a sweet abandoned hound-dog named Boo, taken 7 years ago from a kennel, with me in my photo profile) and I raise hens together with an old lady who I also help in the vegetable garden (see photos of our veg garden). I come from a farming family and try to rediscover the benefits of a healthy life, in contact with animals and nature, and consume food produced locally with ethic and organic methods. For this reason I am among the founders of a consumer cooperative for the direct purchase of food from local farms, outside the logic of profit and exploitation conducted by the large distribution system. The cooperative is inspired by the historic foodcoop Park Sloape in New York. It is a community form to which I aspire and promote: https://www.alvearemporio.it/
My skills
I don’t like waste, I try to reuse everything and minimize garbage. Also for home life: although I have no specific competences I have a good manual skill and a certain inventiveness, so I always do all the maintenance work (repair and repainting the walls, fix windows, small hydraulic and electrical repairs etc.). I like to work with wood to create simple furniture, shelves etc (see photos of one of the rooms in my holiday hut I arranged by myself) . For this reasons I know how to use a a few ‘all’ manual, electric and motor-driven tools (drill, brush cutter, chainsaw etc., but not the blowtorch!) for the house and garden general maintenance.
Au pair in a montain hut
Last year I worked "au pair" at "Rifugio Chiggiato", a mountain hut, 1900 MSL, in one of the most beautiful landscapes of the Dolomites Unesco Heritage, places that I have always frequented, doing hiking and climbing. At the shelter I helped the hosts with tourists, working in the kitchen, tidying up the dining room and dorms, cutting grass and arranging the firewood. I also went into the woods to collect mushrooms to enrich the guests' menu! A rewarding experience of sharing spaces and work, a life among woods and breathtaking landscapes: community life, slow, frugal, sustainable... An experience I would like to repeat as a workawayer!
Why Ireland?
In the summer of 2022 I spent two weeks in Ireland, hiking the Dingle Way and cycling through Killarney National Park. I was so fascinated by the places, nature and people that since that summer I have promised myself to find the time and the way to stay in Ireland and get to know it better.
This year, 2025, I finally decided. I am in fact on “sabbatical” and I can have the time I want at my leisure to enrich my cultural baggage, meet people, help others in daily life, learn new things and improve my English.
What else?
If you need other information, please contact me! I'm eager to learn and meet people of other country and culture.
Interests
Cycling
Cooking & food
Charity work
Sailing / Boating
Writing
Sustainability
Plant care
Outdoor activities
Pets
Movies & TV
Music
Nature
Languages
Mountain
History
Books
Architecture
Art & design
DIY & crafts
Farming
Hiking
Gardening
Culture
Carpentry
Animals
Languages
Languages spoken
Italian: Fluent
English: Intermediate
French: IntermediateMore details about my language interests
I'm a teacher in Italian literature: if you're interested to learn or improve your Italian language and culture et/or exchange languages, I'm more than available!
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Helping around the house
Animal Care
Art Projects
Helping with Computers/ Internet
More details about your skills
Gardening
Animal care
General maintenance (able to use manual, electrical, motor-driven tools)
Drive licence
Good computer skills
Age
53
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Special dietary requirements
Feedback
What what can I say. You have been such great help to me at my farm as well as to Angies.
Your strength, hard work, organisation and skills were out to the test and you really performed.
While you were with us we created sheds, fences, fixed polytunnel, created new chicken house, made raised beds, planted trees & schrubs, looked after… read more
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What what can I say. You have been such great help to me at my farm as well as to Angies.
Your strength, hard work, organisation and skills were out to the test and you really performed.
While you were with us we created sheds, fences, fixed polytunnel, created new chicken house, made raised beds, planted trees & schrubs, looked after… read more
