Nicolas

Travel information

I am currently

Description

Here to play and have fun!
I'm looking to live the most fun, the most exciting version of life.
Be free, experiment and embrace the wisdom in ignorance.
@summerofnic

Hi I'm Nico! Just a pretty regular human, travelling, volunteering, honing my ideas and stepping out of my comfort zone. I just started working as a hiking and biking guide for an active travel company and it's been nothing short of amazing!

I have an insatiable curiosity and I love learning. My interests are eclectic and esoteric: cosmology, solidarity economy, food sovereignty, whole body mental health, meditation, psychology, wildlife, the natural and supernatural.

I enjoy paradigm shifts, non linear thinking and neurodivergence. However, I am also a big fan of not taking anything seriously, laughing hysterically and dancing spontaneously. It depends on the day. However, something that does not depend on the day, is my love of all things bread related.

I spend my free time reading, cooking and baking as well as hiking, biking, camping, canoeing, surfing. My happy place is when I'm moving, ideally outside enjoying nature.

Interests

Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Italian: Intermediate
Japanese: Beginner
Portuguese: Beginner
Chinese (Mandarin): Beginner

More details about my language interests
Would love to learn Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese or Korean

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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:  

DIY and building projects

General Maintenance

Eco Projects

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Some knowledge of:  

Gardening

Life at a Farmstay

Animal Care

Helping with Computers/ Internet

Babysitting and creative play

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Able to teach about:  

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Helping around the house

Hospitality/Tourism

Languages

Teaching

More details about your skills

Tours: I work for an active travel company which is essentially 6 days of exploring regions biking, hiking and other activities. It's a mixture of hosting a dinner party, interprative guiding, bike mechanics and driving a 15 seater van with a trailer. It is so much fun!

Agriculture: I've worked on a few farms in Japan, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador as well as a vineyard in Chile; bed prepping, seeding, weeding and harvesting, beekeeping as well as animal husbandry.

Cooking: I worked as a kitchen hand in a ski lodge in Japan and I am an enthusiastic self taught cook and baker.

Languages: I love learning languages and have worked as an English and French teacher for adults and children in Montreal.

Hospitality: I worked in a high paced fine dining restaurant as well as a microbrewery in Montreal. In Japan I worked in a hostel as well as a hotel in Osaka and a ski lodge in Niigata. I also worked at a hostel in Ecuador.

Admin/bookkeeping: I was in charge of a day-care with 120 kids and 25 employees in Montreal.

Age

35

What else ...

Skills I am looking to develop:

- Food. I want to continue developing my cooking skills, and learn about foraging, hunting, fishing, preservation, making cheese and preserves, cooking with a wood fired oven.

- Agriculture : I want to learn more about regenerative agriculture, animal husbandry, permaculture, agroforestry, rotational grazing, apiculture, food forests.

- Hospitality and agritourism. I want to learn more about hospitality industry, particularly the organisation and business side.

- DIY skills: carpentry, building, renovating, earthships

I am curious, a quick learner, adaptable, communicate effectively and work well under pressure.

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies
  No

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  Special dietary requirements
  No