Share your stories, culture and skills in Monastero Bormida, Italy

Infos

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  Description

  Hello, Buongiorno, Grüezi and Hallo!
  
  We are Katharina (38) and Sven (46) - originally from Germany, we have lived in Switzerland for 10 years and recently moved to the beautiful area of Acqui Terme in Piemonte, northern Italy. We bought part of an old house and are in the middle of renovating it to live here permanently. Right now the water is coming from a well and heating is by wood-fired ovens, but we have gas for cooking and electricity as well - it is like traveling back in time.
  
  After one year of traveling around the world with our backpacks, hitchhiking, couchsurfing and seeing how other people in different places live their lives and what makes them happy, we decided to give up our apartment at the beautiful lake of Zurich and quit our former office jobs to fulfill our dreams: Finding a place with more space and nature around to breathe and grow, a house that needs lots of love renovating it and learning how to do that, a garden to put our hands in (and get them dirty), adopting animals to take care of and bringing even more joy into our lives...
  
  Our aim is to change to a more sustainable lifestyle: producing electricity by Photovoltaik and warm water by solar thermal, collecting rain water and filter it, grow our own veggies, fruits and maybe hazelnuts (we have a big garden that we started to cultivate and a second field that our neighbor is growing grains), take wood from our small forest area, create a chicken coop and many other small projects in and around the house and garden. Our dream is to set up a food forest and adopt animals that need our help.
  
  Sven is a mechanical engineer and loves solving problems, repairing machines and tools and working with his hands. Kat is a cultural manager and loves organizing, gardening, baking bread or cakes and giving massages.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage d'entretien

  Projets DIY créatifs

  Aide dans une ferme

  Aide à la maison

  Petits travaux d'entretien
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Animaux

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Films et télé

  

  Ferme

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Culture

  

  Musique

  

  Langues

  

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  Jardinage

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Livres

  

  Fitness

  

  Camping

  

  Sports d’hiver

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Randonnée

  

  Montagne

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Nature
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  As we traveled a lot and experienced Workaway as volunteers, we would love to share our stories with you and hear about your own story and culture. We aim at a respectful lifestyle towards every person and nature. Let's enjoy life together!
  We are happy to cook together and share our healthy food - many of our vegetables come from our garden.
  As we are new to the area, we would love you to come along and explore the surrounding nature, villages nearby or a trip to another city around or even to the sea with us. We already made good friends with our neighbors - an Italian farmer family with vineyards and hazelnuts around. And the Expat community here is amazing as well! It is never getting boring here and there are always new people to meet and help each other.

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  Aide

  Tasks may be harvesting vegetables (all year around), seeding and planting seedlings (from February till September), mulching the garden and trees, watering and turning the compost - and maybe building a wooden structure for it, watering the vegetables beds during summer, planning and organizing, creating and building a small chicken coop and a greenhouse or tunnel, and much more - depending on your skills and motivation. We are open for your ideas and happy to teach you what we know, however many things might also be new to us - so let's learn together!
  We are sharing the household tasks like preparing food, setting and clearing the table, doing the dishes, taking out the trash etc. - which is a big part of our daily life and you will be part of that and not only a guest :-)

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Allemand: Courant
  Anglais: Intermédiaire
  Italien: Débutant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  We speak some Italian already, but definitely need some more practice (Sven is a beginner while Kat is intermediate). We are always happy to practice our good English or teach you some German.
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  Hébergement

  You will have your own bedroom with a single or double bed and a shared bathroom - we just finished renovating the upper floor. All other rooms in the house we also share like kitchen, living room, terrace, etc.
  We love to cook and bake our own bread and are happy to do all of this together, but cookings skills are not a must ;-) Now and then we also go out for a pizza. We are not vegetarian, but don't consume a lot of meat.
  It is not super remote here, but you will need a car or bike to move around. We have two old E-bikes you can borrow and are always happy to pick you up somewhere by car or drop you off.

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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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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  We love pets and you are welcome to bring yours along. At the moment we don't have our own, but might be petsitting for other people's dogs (or cats) at our home.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Mes animaux

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