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Hi, we have a small farm near Évora in Portugal.
The farm is located 35km (20miles) from the city of Evora just 150 Km from Lisbon and 100km from Spain.
This farm was bought mainly to have our horses close to us since we work in this region and to try to have a more self-sufficient and sustainable approach to life.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Centres d’intérêt
Nature
Activités en plein air
Animaux
Architecture
Livres
Menuiserie
Cuisine et alimentation
Histoire
Culture
Dev. durable
Vie en van
Dev. personnel
Animaux de compagnie
LGBT+
Ferme
Écriture
Soin des plantes
Jardinage
Bricolage / artisanat
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
We want who comes to help us to have the most enjoyable time possible, but we hope you understand that we won’t be able to take you out to visit the area too often. Our jobs and the work at the farm won’t allow much time to do it. You'll have to do it on your own.
However, the farm is located between 3 small typical Portuguese villages on walking distance (around 3Km), each with a tiny grocery store and a local bar where the locals meet for coffee and social company. They are always very pleased and excited to see strangers coming by. Even if they don’t really understand foreigners since mostly only speak Portuguese and maybe a little bit of Spanish.
There's also Évora just 35 Km (20 miles) away and is one of Portugal's finest and most delightful little towns. It is a true open-air museum with a large number of wonderfully preserved monuments and buildings of public interest that led UNESCO to protect it as a World Heritage Site. Évora is also the 2027 European's capital of culture and even know has already several activities going on.
Closer to home (14km) , there's also the town of Arraiolos where you can either visit the Castle or the Arraiolos Tapestry Museum. Depending on when you go, you might even catch local festivals or fairs that celebrate Arraiolos’ heritage and crafts.
You can also go to the Divor Lake where you can swim, go fishing (you'll need a fishing licence that you can get at Évora) or bird watching. (HEADS UP: the lake is 15km from my place so if you're not bringing a car your options are to call a taxi, take a bus until half the distance there or to go with Rute on your free days, on her way to her job).L’hôte offre un salaire correspondant au salaire minimum
Cet hôte offre l'hébergement et une rémunération.
Aide
We're looking for positive and motivated people that are not opposed to getting their hands dirty.
Our next big project is to build a carport and that's what we need help with. You don't need any prior experience,. .you just need to know how to follow orders and work hard. You'll be requested to help during 3 days and you'll have 4 days free. You'll be given a stipend so you can buy food and whatever else, plus accomodation and lunch on your working days. For the rest of the meals you'll have to fend for yourself.
Working hours start at 07h00 and ends at 12h00.
Yes, we realise that it is indeed very early for many people but you'll have the afternoon all to yourself to relax, take a nap or if you so desire it go summing at the lake. Or just simply stay by the pool.
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Italien: Courant
Portugais: Courant
Espagnol: Débutant
Hébergement
You'll be sleeping in a caravan, but will be able to use the bathroom and kitchen of a secondary house where we live. The house is under maintenance and there's no room finished for you to stay.
Be prepared with working gloves, a pair of jeans (or any other kind of long leg trousers even during the summer), walking/working shoes, at least a sweatshirt/jacket (even if its during the summer because sometimes it gets cold in the evening) and warm clothes during the winter.
HEADS UP: The Portuguese sun is unforgiving. To work comfortably outside you should have some sort of hat and maybe a light, long-sleeved shirt. If you neglect to cover up the sun will bite you and it will not be fun. Especially if your skin is really white!
Autres infos...
We like to meet new people and make new friends (hopefully!). We've have been hosting workawayers since 2014 and new friends are always welcome.
That said, we know that some volunteers are looking mainly for a cheap vacation and some of them don't like the hard work; we totally understand it, but help is needed around the place and that is the main reason why we’ve became hosts. If we ask you to do something it is expected that you to do it and not spend half of the time sitting down waiting for time to pass.
We'll need to know the precise date you will arrive and the approximate date you plan to leave (We can always extend your stay if we get on great, but the walls are not elastic so we do need to do some forward planning).
Nevertheless, please plan to arrive on a Friday.
Bear in mind that the farm is located in a quite rural area. It’s a great place to relax and if you enjoy horses and animals in general and a quiet rural way of life we think that you will enjoy volunteering at our farm. Nevertheless, we advise you to bring at least one book or something else to occupy some of your free time.
If you are looking for big crowds and sophisticated wine bars and nightclubs this experience IS NOT suitable to you.
If you want to you can also take the bus to go to the nearest towns.
Although there are several buses during school time (SET-JUN) and some during July, in August there aren't any.
The bus stop is around 5 Km from our place.
Your animals are welcome. Nevertheless, like we said, we have dogs. One of them is a MALE dog. So if you’re bringing a female dog you may end up leaving with a litter of puppies since he's a very love giving animal to the ladies. Whichever animal you want to bring please be advised that it will not be allowed to stay inside the house. At the most it can stay in the garage.
Also, it's not unusual to see foxes, rabits, quails, falcons, wild boars and other wild animals.
Finally, we think it is extremely important to point out that usually hosts spend some of their time and resources by at least preparing their home for a helpers visit (at least we do). There is nothing obligating a workawayer to go to a certain host house and it’s in their right to have a change of heart and decide against going there. However, we find extremely annoying and a complete lack of good manners when people change their mind about visiting and don’t inform the host. There may be other people interested in coming and by not giving the host a heads up, as soon as possible, these rude people are putting in jeopardy those other people’s stay at the said host house. There is no need to make up excuses and what not. Just inform that you won’t be coming after all. We don't think it to be that hard.
We don’t know the rest of the hosts’ opinion on this subject, but by our book this shows a completely lack of respect, up bring and consideration for a host. We hope you understand this issue and that, please, if for some reason you contact us to come to our place and afterwards change your mind, let us know about it as soon as possible.
Nevertheless, even if you decide not to come to our little place we wish to you all the best and happy travels.
Looking forward to hear from you soon,
Rute and Cris
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il aimait accueillir les digital nomads.
Espace pour garer des vans
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Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
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Mes animaux
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After the meals we often sat together for another hour or two just chatting and laughing. I was taken on a trip around the nearby—very… read more
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After the meals we often sat together for another hour or two just chatting and laughing. I was taken on a trip around the nearby—very… read more
1. First things first ;-) Food: Both of them are absolutely amazing cooks! Rute showed us delicious Portuguese… read more
They were supposed to stay for one week and luckily for me ended up staying for… read more
Our family of 5 was made to feel welcome from day one and Rute found jobs and tasks that were best suited to everyone's individual ability. Rute is a 'Jack of all trades' and can do absolutely anything!
She taught my son and I how to mix cement and… read more
Among other things she helped out with the fixing of an old stone wall at the vegetable garden… read more
She worked hard, with great initiative and enthusiastically, even going above and beyond of what was asked and expected of her. She’s an absolutely… read more
She was a fabulous guest, willing to help whenever needed and a delight to get to know. No task was too big and the execution of it was impeccable.
She got lucky with her stay since there was another girl from Madrid coming at the same time and they managed to… read more
She worked really hard around the farm. Her work was very tidy and every task I asked her to do was done with thoroughness, patience and excellence. She was able to do a good job on tasks… read more
If you are looking for a switching off experience, this is your place: only… read more
She can be entirely trusted to get on with things unsupervised. She happily took on all manner of tasks without any sign of objection. She was always punctual, committed, reliable and very competent.
I… read more
She was an excellent volunteer polite and with a great attitude and approach to any task she was given.
The potatoes, the peas and the spinach that she helped me to sow are doing great.:)
It was the first time that I had a vegetarian workaway and therefore… read more
They are kind, helpful and hard working, always willing to lend a hand to ensure everything gets done in time.
Once again, thanks for all your invaluable help fixing up the workawayers’ home. Give my and Jake's love to Harley.
The luvly dog and horses are a bonus.Nice vegetables from the garden and were lovely hosts.
Amanda and Gary
Thank you for everything !!!
