DIY Sanctuary in Lago, northern Portugal

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  Description

  We're a little family of young dreamers:
  Diane, witch, the crazy one who bought the place, started the dream, and sustains it.
  Marc, dwarf, garden master and co-investor who made the dream bigger.
  Youen/Omali, booboo, architect and project manager who makes things real.
  Sam and Leonie, handstand expert and herbalist helping us on all manual fronts.
  Joy, refugee artist slowing down.
  Pipuú, sudoku bichon, refugee creature with big pony dreams.
  We also have Tito, Lula, and Pumpkin who actively do their part of cuddles.
  
  We live together in a not so small paradise of 2,5 hectares of trees, old stones, and water that needs a lot of love, care, and sweat. We want to make it a sanctuary, a safe and sustainable heaven for individuals, projects, and eventually events. We are still at the beginning.
  
  The land is composed of a lot of spaces, old stone houses and other modern structures that need renovating, a watermill on the river, ponds, orchards, weird buildings, and a big field where we have planted a big vegetable garden and lots of baby trees. It is very hard to get an idea of it without being here, its magical atmosphere needs to be felt.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Culturally we are not a good vibe only kinda place, we value open communication and vulnerability. We feel close to the Burn community, queer community, integralism, ecology, tantra, circling, yoga, etc.
  You can learn a lot depending on which project you'll partake in, this project has a lot of layers that we're happy to explore with you.
  As a non-particularly-important information about us: Diane and Youen are French, Sam is Dutch, Leonie and Joy are German, Pipuu is Czech, Marc is a Berliner from Luxembourg, the cats are German, the dog is Portuguese :) we speak English together but a lot of languages are possible.

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  Aide

  We're going to have a lot of projects happening this year, you can work on the current project and/or helping with general maintenance of the garden, cooking, cleaning, etc.
  Next projects in line for Spring:
  - Main project, renovating the main house: demolition, woodwork, stonework, insulation...
  - Water system: trenches, ponds, drainage
  - Other garden activities
  - Communal kitchen upgrade

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  Langues parlées

  Czech: Courant
  Allemand: Courant
  Anglais: Courant
  Espagnol: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Luxembourgish: Courant
  Hollandais: Courant
  Portugais: Intermédiaire

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  Hébergement

  We are currently rethinking and planning the accommodation options because we're losing the main house to renovations. Depending on who's here we might have a 'room' or camping/glamping options. TBD.
  Possibility of camper vans.

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  Autres infos...

  Braga is reachable by bus, Porto is 45min driving, you can also take a train or bus to Porto. They're both nice cities to explore.
  Around here the riverside is very nice. The national park of Gerês is 1h away for good hikes.

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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 fibre optic internet and a little work space with 2 desks in the 'palace'.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We have a nice parking lot in the upper part of the property but the entrance might be too low for elevated vans. There is also a big field that can be used for vans.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  Maximum 4 hours a day, 5 days a week

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