Daily life with a funny and young Italian family in beautiful Viareggio, Italy

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  Description

  ****currently looking for a lady starting from the 10th of September ( for a minimum stay of 1 month or more ) 🥰****
  
  
  Hi, my name's Laura. We are a family of 5 : my husband , Paolo , our
  9 years old daughter, Diana; Perla who is almost 3 y old and a lovely hairy son Penny ( our dog ).
  
  We are looking for a well educated , responsible and proactive lady playing with the kids and help around the house.
  
  We Like to travel and to know different cultures and habits.
  We love cooking and eating, but we also are an active family. We like walking and cycling, skying and swimming ( depending on the weather of course !!!! )
  We love nature and animals: got a jack Russel that We love so much !!!
  
  We offer room and board ; Full free wi-fi connection , many advices , a lot of italian language practice ( also english and spanish and portuguese if needed ) and a lot of love 💗
  
  
  🍝 🍕🍷🍻 Food, as part of a beautiful Italian tradition, is a very important way to know our Country and appreciate it.
  I’m not bad in cooking 😎 even if we try to eat as cleanest as possible .. My mum is the best chef i know and if you’re lucky, you can taste one of her recipes... so yummy!!!!🤤
  
  🫡 we have few rules at home which are quite important for us and they are:
  
  🙌🏼 - washing your hands before cooking and touching things in the kitchen and downloading the dishwasher
  
  🚽 - washing your hands after the toilet ( 🙏🏼)
  
  🍴- while we’re eating all together, use the common fork to pick food from the common plates (and not your own fork )
  
  👄 - don’t put anything into your mouth and then put it into a common thing ( ex: a common dish or into the jam or into the sugar or into the Nutella jar etc.. )
  
  🧼 - leave the kitchen clean as you found it after cooking or eating
  
  👠 - take off your shoes before going upstairs.
  
  
  I preferred to write this list down in order to know us a little bit more before meeting us in person .

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Pratique d’une langue

  Enseignement

  S’occuper des animaux

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We love foreign languages and we speak Italian very well, so if you appreciate to learn our language we can help you with that a lot!!! 🤓
  
  We love to cook but above all to eat.. so you can enjoy the Italian cooking. 😋🤌🏽🍷🍝
  
  You can enjoy the beach!🏖️ and you can use our private tend that we rent every year and the swimming pool which would have a cost like 80€ per day 😛 but it’s free for you as part of the family !
  
  There is an italian school for foreigners next to our house so you can also have some italian classes or make a lot of international friends there !!!
  
  🌞 During the summer, we prefer to have light and fresh meals as salads, 🥬🥒🍅 fruits 🍉🍌🍍 and very simple food. In any case you are always free to cook whatever you prefer!
  
  on saturday and sunday we usually go out enjoy the sun friends or family so it’s possible we won’t be home for any of the weekend meals so you’re free in the kitchen and can prepare your own meal !
  
  FOR VEGETARIANS : 🫘🥦🍆🍠🥔🥒🌶️🧄🥕
  We loooove veggies and eat them a lot every day so i think it won’t be a problem at all … I just like to say that we don’t prefer to buy “prepared food” like vegetarian burgers or ready meal at the supermarket which are easily preparable at home .. you can cook your meals using fresh ingredients like vegetables or beans or cheakbeans that are always available in our pantry etc…
  
  
  We have a very comfortable accommodation. Big spaces and in the city Center of Viareggio.
  
  5 minutes far from the sea and the beach.
  In front of a park we call The Pinewood which, during the summer , is full of people and attractions.
  
  In the nearby there are plenty of restaurants , bar, stores and everything you could need is at your fingertips.

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We would like to have an experience where we share cultural habits. To learn about a different Country, different cooking.. different language , different habits !!!!
  
  We Both speak English and Spanish . 🤓
  I also speak French and portuguese and studied German and Russian even though I don’t have the chance to practice them so I basically forgot them .
  
  I would like to have a little help like in a family.. I mean.. like a sister or friend would do.
  
  We expect you to do simple ordinary things of daily life.
  
  This are the most common things :
  
  - laying and clearing the table 🍽️
  
  - loading and unloading the dishwasher;
  
  - vacuuming the kitchen and the living room; - 🏠 sweeping the patio.. ( which are the common spaces )
  
  and of course we expect you to clean your room and bathroom 🧼
  
  Since we have a cleaning lady once per week , we don’t expect you to do big cleanings.
  We just have some habits we’d like you to follow as part of our family .
  Ex : we are used to clean the bathtub after using it , so we’d like you to do the same .
  Keeping the bathroom as clean as possible is also very important to us .
  Remove hair from the sink and the bathtub is also very important ( we are obsessed by hair 🤢) .. by the way, please tie your hair in the house 🙏.
  when I cook for everyone, you should clean the kitchen ( I mean , loading the dishwasher and clean the stove ; remove all the remaining food from the sink )
  when you eat before or after us , you’ll just clean what you used and soiled .
  The pans must be cleaned by hand 🖐🏽.
  
  thank you for following these instructions and respecting our daily important habits 🙏
  
  first of all we appreciate you to play and have fun with the girls 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏽
  
  Maybe we could ask you to stay with them in the night , it could happen once a week ... but it’s not certain and very rarely .. and in any case you can refuse to do it.
  
  During the days in which you will help us, if we agreed for a morning help ( starting at 8 o'clock, more or less ) we’d appreciate you to go to bed not that late. As you know for sure, taking care of children require a lot of attention, most of all if you'll do sporty activities as, for example, swimming. Furthermore it's not that nice seeing you to yawn all the time 🥱 😂
  
  IN THE SUMMERTIME 🥵
  We rent a sunshades and chairs in the private beach with pool which is located 5 minutes by bicycle far from our house.
  This is the place where we almost love to spend our time during the summer here.
  
  We’d like you to take the girls to the beach and play with them.
  So it would be great if you know well how to swim !
  
  Taking Penny out in the morning and evening would be one of your task too 🐶❤️
  
  WINTER TIME 🥶
  The "winter schedule" is obviously different from the summer one.
  
  During the autumn/winter period Diana and Perla go to school from 8am to 4pm and Diana also has sport activities in the afternoon ( volleyball ), so your " helping hours" will be organized in the left time and on Saturday which is the only free day Diana has from school ( Sunday is always a no working day).
  
  ‼️ This could be more or less a WEEK SCHEDULE PLAN:
  
  
  Monday to Saturday ( 5 helping hours)
  
  🍝 7 to 7,30 = preparing Diana’s lunch for school
  🐶 7,30 to 8 = take Penny out for the morning walk
  
  🐶 4,30 to 4,45 pm = Penny out
  
  🥳 4,45 pm to 7 pm = playing and households time
  
  ‼️playing time means to be proactive and able to invent games preferably avoiding internet or tv ;
  singing, dancing , acting , dressing up, listen to music … are always welcome 🤗
  
  playing time also means to put all the toys in place as we found them .
  
  ‼️Households time consists in :
  - fold the family laundry
  - sweeping the patio
  - vacuuming the floor
  - cooking something for dinner.
  
  7 to 8,30 pm : entertain Perla
  
  ‼️we’d love to have dinner all together , but sometimes it’s not possible because Perla still needs some attention , so it would be better you to eat before ( for example together with Perla , at 7/ 7,30 pm ) to let us eat quietly too while you entertain her until we finished ( 8,30 pm ) ; or you can also eat later if you prefer.
  
  🐶 9pm to 9:30pm = Penny out for the night walk.
  
  Saturday
  🐶🥳 9 to 12
  if you don’t go out in the night we’d appreciate you to take penny out for a pee ☺️
  
  Sunday :
  🛌 😴 sleeping 💤
  🐶 Penny out
  DAY OFF
  
  
  
  ‼️ As a member of the family you will use all the spaces, kitchen, living room, bathroom, so we think it is normal to take care of the house too and we are grartful for your precious help !! 🙏
  
  📱 Important: we know how the phone is part of our life nowadays, but...... we really appreciate you not to use it while spending your time with the kids .
  We would love to see you laughing and playing and speaking about everything .. and the phone unfortunately is very distracting!!!

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Espagnol: Courant
  Portugais: Courant
  Français: Intermédiaire

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
  Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
  
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  Hébergement

  🛏️ 🛁 We offer a private single room and a bathroom you’ll share with Diana & Perla .
  
  
  I'd like to underline that our location is really coveted because it is located in the city center and I can assure you that there is a HUGE difference between living in the suburbs and living HERE 😎 or even living in the small neighboring towns as, for example Camaiore, Stiava, Piano di conca, Querceta, Torre del lago, Massarosa, Capezzano
  ect ect.....
  
  We used to rent this room for 500 Euros per week during the summertime and 600 Euros per month during the wintertime.... just to let you know that this has a certain value you should consider !!! 💰
  
  
  
  Talking about Viareggio, we feel lucky to live here because we are near to so many beautiful places to visit !!!
  Pisa ( 20 min by train )
  Lucca ( 20 min by train )
  Florence ( 1 hour by train )
  Le 5 terre !! ( i’m Not sure about the distance but i’m Sure it is easy to reach!!!) and they are amazing!!!
  
  If you will stay here during January and February, we can show you our amazing Carnival!! 🥳
  A street party that lasts almost one month!!!
  Check on the internet “ Carnival of Viareggio” and you’ll see how amazing it looks like!!!

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  Autres infos...

  We can give you a bicycle to move in the nearby .. to enjoy the nightlife too because everything is reachable and at your fingertips!!!
  But you’ll enjoy walking too.
  
  You certainly should have a look to the promenade ( we call it “ la passeggiata”)
  The dock.. ( il molo )
  The pier ( il pontile )
  The Pinewood Park ( la Pineta )
  The market ( il mercato )
  The beach ( la spiaggia )
  
  Towns in the very nearby:
  Pietrasanta
  Forte dei Marmi
  Torre del lago
  Carrara ( the marble city )
  Camaiore
  
  very closed from us:
  Lucca
  Pisa
  Firenze
  Cinque terre
  La Spezia
  Isola d’Elba

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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

  Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il aimait accueillir les digital nomads.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Un

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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