Maintenance, gardening, painting, pruning, cleaning and reorganizing in Foros de Almada, Portugal

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  Description

  We are both Dutch. We live in Portugal for over 30 years. We've met at the language course for foreigners in Lisbon in 1982. Got married in 1987 and live in Portugal together ever since. In 1994 we moved from Malveira da Serra to the Ribatejo.
  Foros de Almada is a rural place which belongs to Santo Estêvão. We need to keep up the maintanance of our house as well as to keep track of the 3,5 Ha of land on which we have a horse and several sheep. We have orange trees and mandarins too. Needed some pruning, some cleaning, some fencing, etc.
  For all this happy rewarding but somewhat physical work, I can’t count with my husband as he is limited in his mobility. (Wheelchair user)

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide dans une ferme

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We are both fluent in Dutch, German and English. We could teach you some basic vocabulary in Portuguese and some basic verbs. The population around us is entirely Portuguese, warm and welcoming people.

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  Aide

  Now in the first stages we would need:
  1) Organising and throwing away some stuff in containers on our land.
  2) Clean walls, the patio with a high pressure cleaner.
  3) Paint white with white acrylic wall paint on roller.
  4) Maybe some assistance with other maintenance gardening irrigation and pruning, bricolage, straightening out of some walls with 'salitre'.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Allemand: Courant
  Anglais: Courant
  Hollandais: Courant
  Portugais: Courant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  I am Dutch, but while living in Portugal I do speak and write Portuguese fluently, as well as English (Cambridge proficiency) and German (Grosses Deutsches Sprachdiplom-Goethe Institut). In my evenings I try to learn some Hebrew. We did follow 2 semesters of hebrew, but now I simply do Duolingo. I'd love to teach some and learn some as a fun exchange and join the useful with some happy times.
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  Hébergement

  In Foros the Almada we live in a rustical tipical ribatejano house in a small village belonging to a bigger village 7 km. away. We live on 3,5 Ha with a horse, sheep, chickens and peacocks, and two cats . For our workawayers we have a bedroom, toilet, shower as well as a small livingroom wth a kitchenette for breakfast preparations.
  In front of our door is a busstop where the Ribatejana bus holds coming and going to Benavente (2 or 3 times a day.)

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  Autres infos...

  We prefer people like 35 yr or older.
  Your time off, you could spend:
  In Foros de Almada: take a walk, go jogging, maybe go biking, , meet the locals in the café's and so on.
  In the nearest village, Santo Estêvão at 8 km. you could go fishing, golfing and horseriding
  Depending if you bring a car with you you can go and visit some places like Coruche, Benavente, Montijo, or Alcochete all on this side of the Tejo.
  Benavente is reachable by bus during school season about three times per working day.

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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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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  We have in our house a separate place with an internet wire plug for you as well as our normal Wifi. We are connected to the internet through glassfiber connection. We prefer people 35yr or older.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Our place has 3,5 Ha. If you want you can put your camper here and enjoy the birds singing in the morning. No barbecueing in the open though because of the possible fire hazard! It's forbidden to make campfires too.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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