Help with collaborative family projects on the Wild Atlantic Way, County Mayo, Ireland

Infos

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  Description

  Welcome to our rural smallholding and woodland on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way in the mountains by the sea.
  
  Myself and husband Paul are in our 70's, both retired. We grow food for the table, manage the land for carbon-sequestration and restore mountain habitat for wildlife. The nuts, fruits, wildflowers etc. are harvested to make natural medicines.
  
  Marie trained as a sculptor and worked as an art teacher and practicing artist in London. Subsequently she got involved in fiber arts including quilting, weaving and spinning. We have spinning-heels and looms for our visitors' use, and equipment for kniting and crochet.
  
  We include our guests on out outings and are keen to introduce visitors to Mayo to the wonders of The Wild Atlantic Way. There are hiking and biking trails nearby on The Great Western Greenway. There is traditional music and arts festivals locally (we attended The Heinrich Boll Festival last weekend on the beautiful Achill Island, and live traditional music in the Westport pubs and cafes). Mayo is rich in World Heritage sites as well as its exquisite coastline, with wold-class surfing. Our weekends usually include hikes in the mountains.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Compagnie pour pers. âgée

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Auto-stop

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Nature

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Technologie

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Ferme

  

  Culture

  

  Photographie

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Jardinage

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Livres

  

  Art et design

  

  Montagne

  

  Randonnée
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Mayo is famous for its live Celtic music in local pubs. Fairs and festivals Workawayers would enjoy include a celebration week of Mayo's Dark Sky Park (November), an annual Salmon Festival in Ballina (July), an International 4-Day Walking Festival in Castlebar (June). Mayo is strong on craft and art exhibitions and workshops, especially traditional crafts of spinning, weaving and dyeing, and we have equipment and knowledge at your disposal to learn and practice these skills.

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  Aide

  We welcome volunteers with commitment to "reduce, reuse, renew" in daily life to minimise environmental damage. You would help with our sensitive management of a small-holding including household tidying and meal-preparation. All tasks are clearly explained along the way and activities done together with Host.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Italien: Débutant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  Marie learned to speak "an teanga beo" (the soft tongue - Irish) in school many years ago. Paul learned Russian as a young man and remembers a little. We both 'get the gist of' French and German though have no formal schooling in either language but are always eager to learn and curious about European language roots.
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  Hébergement

  Your own bedroom in small Irish cottage with comfortable clean single x 2 or 1 double bed. Access to shower, bathroom, washing machine. Meals x 3 daily Monday to Friday. Our weekends tend to include family, friends, and outings including organized mountain-hikes or festivals so weekends do not include "sit-down" cooked meals but we happily provide packed sandwich lunches and lifts for our Volunteers to trail-heads for hiking trails (Nephin More, The Nephin Range and Ireland's "Holy Mountain", Croagh Patrick) or the many Blue Flag beaches for swimming and surfing.

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  Autres infos...

  There are local buses, bike-hire outfits and taxis locally and we offer lifts to local towns each week - Castlebar, Ballina and Westport - for shopping and cultural events. Coaches from Dublin Airport, Shannon Airport and Knock International Airport are within close reach and we are happy to pick up Volunteers by arrangement.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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