Caterina
& Filippo Ottorino

Italie
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ciao! We’re Cate, Pippo, and Luna 🐶
We used to be two educators working with people with disabilities and fragility. Last year, we decided to quit our jobs and our home to discover something… new.
We believe this is a wonderful way to explore and meet people.
We love reading, watching movies, listening to music, dancing, playing board games, making new friends, traveling, hiking with Luna, sharing skills… and we try to act responsibly toward the environment we live in ♻️ We’re doing our best!
We have dreams and thoughts for ourselves, but we also really enjoy going with the flow and seeing what comes our way.

If you'd like, contact us to get to know each other better — we'd love to talk face to face.
We travel in a camper van with our dog Luna.
We also have a cat, Pippi, a lovely senior kitty (she’s 13 years old), now she is at Cate’s parents’ house 🐱
Luna is a 5-year-old dog, she loves being free in nature and she’s super sweet — sometimes she may seem a bit “aggressive”… because she barks meeting new people. That’s just her first reaction; she loves human attention and of course, the company of other dogs 🐶
She’s not an alpha dog. She’s castrated and has all the necessary vaccinations to travel around Europe.
She’s an animal, so we take it one step at a time 🙏

Thanks, and we hope to meet you soon! 😽👩‍❤️‍👨🐶

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Ciao! Siamo Cate, Pippo e Luna 🐶 Eravamo due educatori e lavoravamo con persone con disabilità e fragilità. L'anno scorso abbiamo deciso di lasciare il lavoro e la nostra casa per scoprire qualcosa di... nuovo Crediamo che questo sia un modo meraviglioso per scoprire e incontrare persone.
Ci piace leggere, guardare film, ascoltare musica, ballare, giocare a giochi da tavolo, fare nuove amicizie, viaggiare, fare escursioni con Luna, condividere competenze... cerchiamo di agire responsabilmente nei confronti dell'ambiente in cui viviamo ♻️ Cerchiamo di fare del nostro meglio!
Abbiamo sogni e pensieri per noi stessi, ma ci piace anche molto seguire il flusso e ciò che ci accade lungo il cammino. Se vuoi, contattaci per conoscerci meglio, vorremmo parlare vis á vis!
Viaggiamo in camper con la nostra cagnolina Luna. Abbiamo anche una gatta, Pippi, un'adorabile gatta anziana (ha 13 anni) che ora è a casa dei genitori di Cate 🐱
Luna è una cagnolina di 5 anni, ama stare libera nella natura ed è dolcissima, a volte sembra un po' "aggressiva"... perché abbaia quando incontra nuove persone. È solo la sua prima reazione, ama le attenzioni umane e ovviamente quelle degli altri cani 🐶 non è un cane alfa. È castrata e ha tutte le vaccinazioni necessarie per viaggiare in Europa. È un animale, quindi vediamo come va di volta in volta 🙏
Grazie e speriamo di incontrarti presto! 😽👩‍❤️‍👨🐶
Centres d’intérêt
Bricolage / artisanat
Culture
Dev. durable
Animaux de compagnie
Végétarien ou végan
Vie en van
Ferme
Bénévolat
Soin des plantes
Livres
Menuiserie
Jardinage
Cuisine et alimentation
Animaux
Activités en plein air
Randonnée
Montagne
Yoga / bien-être
Nature
Camping
Langues
Langues parlées
Italien: Courant
Anglais: Intermédiaire
Espagnol: Débutant
Français: Débutant
Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
of course!!! we would love to learn new languages, especially improve our English and French and implement our Spanish. We can teach Italian language if you like 😌
Trouver un partenaire de langue
Compétences et connaissances que nous aimerions partager ou apprendre
Ça nous intéresse :
Langues
Éco-projets
S’occuper des animaux
Aider dans une ferme
Nous avons des connaissances :
Jardinage
Bricolage et projets de construction
Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille
Quelles sont vos compétences ?
We thought we'd write here some things we have done in the last few months (sometimes like workawayers sometimes not)
🍃 a lot of work in the garden, following the principles of permaculture
🪵 woods, cut and collect, with chainsaw and other stuff
🍳cooking! we really enjoy it and also learning and trying new recipes, with particular attention to the vegetarian and gluten free diet (Cate is both vegetarian and allergic to gluten). We love to bake!
👷🏼‍♀️👷🏽 construction
🪨 construction with natural materials (cob...)
🍇 harvest grape (champagne) with friends
🫒 harvest olive for making oil (soooooo good 😋)
🌳 pruning trees
🥾 hiking
🚚 removals and clearances
🎆 travel
🖌️ paint stuff
Âge
34 & 28
Informations complémentaires
- Fumeur
- Permis de conduire
- Allergies
  Caterina: gluten
- Régime alimentaire spécial
  Caterina: vegetarian and gluten free

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31 mai 2025

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Abbiamo trascorso tre settimane insieme a Bitto, Chiara, Marida, gli animaletti, l’Etna fumante e il fiume Alcantara. Il loro progetto è super e in super movimento 🌼 noi abbiamo partecipato a tante attività: orto, lavori di costruzione, cura degli spazi comuni e cura degli animali.
Dormivamo nel nostro camper ma avevamo libero accesso a tutti gli… read more

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23 mars 2025

Laissé par l'hôte (Join my off-grid life and ...) pour le workawayer ()

Cate and Pippo are a very kind and lovely couple. They are polite, full of positive energy, and always in a good mood, even though the weather was awful for most of the more than two weeks they stayed. They always had a smile on their faces. They were very attentive, responsible, eager to help, and curious to learn. It was a great experience and a… read more

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22 mars 2025

Laissé par le workawayer () pour l'hôte (Join my off-grid life and ...)

We stayed at Olivier’s place for almost 20 days, we were supposed to arrive later but we had to leave another workaway before the time and he welcomed us earlier, he was very nice!
We had a great time, the place is fabulous and in your free time you can take lots of walks immersed in silence and nature.
With Olivier we cut and arranged wood, did… read more

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1 mars 2025

Laissé par le workawayer () pour l'hôte (Help out and get your hands ...)

Hey volunteers!
We stayed at finca for 7 days. Initially we had planned 15 days with Nathalie and Jana, since they would have left for Belgium we could have easily decided to extend our stay in the project. They anticipated the departure and we communicated that we could have stayed longer, but, after some days, we decided that we couldn't stay… read more beyond a week. Let's clarify that there was also another volunteer, another would have arrived, there were two guests and Casper, who lives on the land with them.

We don't want to share the reasons that led us to this choice, we followed our feelings, our sensations and emotions, but we think it could be important for the other volunteers to have more detail than what is told in the profile, something we also talked about with Nathalie and Jana when we left.

We were placed in caravans without electricity and without gas (there is the possibility of buying gas from them if you want a bit of heating and if you want to cook your own lunch!)
The bathroom is outside the caravan, with a shower and a dry toilet. If we wanted to take a cold shower we could do it whenever we want, after working hours, for the hot shower we had to wait for the evening, when the generator was turned on to operate the washing machine (it remains on for an hour and twenty, usually around dinner time!).

Our working hours was from 9 to 14, so there were 5 hours requests, not 3 as indicated in the profile. 5 hours a day x 5 days, two free for everyone, in which we could decide whether to do things together with them or alone.

Breakfast and dinner were provided by Nathalie and Jana, lunch was not provided. We could prepared our own breakfast in Casper's camper (you can also preparare your own lunch in Casper’s caravan, but there is not much space to store everyone's food so Nathalie and Jana advise to buy food for two or three days at most) . In our turn, at 17 we had to start preparing dinner for everyone, which was served between 18 and 19, we could prepare it in Casper's camper or in their camper if we had to prepare for many people.
The volunteers or guests take care of meals. Volunteers or guests who do not cook, wash the dishes.

During the 5 hours of work, Nathalie and Jana shared their knowledge with us and often we did the work together, other times we worked alone or in groups if they had to do other work.

Every morning we had a meeting with Nathalie and Jana, the other volunteer and guest 10 minutes before 9 in their camper in which they explained the work schedule for the day. We were also in a WhatsApp chat for communicate quickly.

Every day the households had to be done, which consist of: cleaning the floor of Nathalie and Jana's camper, airing the dogs' cushions, dusting, washing their dishes, refiling their water if it's finished, cleaning their bathroom, tidying up their room, putting their dirty clothes in the washing machine, taking the dry ones away and putting them back in their place and consequently tidying up their closets too, filling the dogs' bowls.
The jobs carried out by us and other volunteers were: cleaning the chicken coop and feeding the chickens, cleaning the shower and the dry toilet, cleaning spaces used by the guests, sifting the soil to obtain clay, building walls with clay, straws and stones (cob), dividing the branches pruned from the olive trees, turning over the hot compost, procuring together with them more compost, emptying a hole with biochar, repair some tools.

Our dog Luna was warmly welcomed by everyone. Their dogs are wonderful, all of them, we just recommend being careful if you travel with a dog that is very reactive because they are almost all rescued dogs and some still have fears due to past traumas.

Our advice is to ask more information about the help before you arrive and about the accommodation!

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31 mai 2025

Laissé par le workawayer () pour l'hôte (Help us to transform our home ...)

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23 mars 2025

Laissé par l'hôte (Join my off-grid life and ...) pour le workawayer ()

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22 mars 2025

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1 mars 2025

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20 févr. 2025

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Dear workawayers,
we recommend this wonderful experience immersed in the magic of nature to all of you 🍃
the two weeks spent with Renuad flew by!
The house where he lives is magical. Renaud is a wonderful host: he is very sweet, super interesting (he has crazy stories!) open, welcoming, patient (when you try to speak French!), he recommends… read more

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4 déc. 2024

Laissé par l'hôte (Welcoming nature-loving souls ...) pour le workawayer ()

Grazie grazie grazie!
Caterina e Filippo sono stati un grande aiuto e grande compagnia, ci siamo trovati tanto bene.
Un energia bella e calma, tanta voglia di imparare, anche le bimbe si sono affezionate.
Sono stati molto attenti e si prendono gran cura della cagnolina Luna, consigliatissimi. Speriamo di rivedervi presto :)

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24 nov. 2024

Laissé par le workawayer () pour l'hôte (Welcoming nature-loving souls ...)

Siamo stati con Emily, Daniele, Ayla, Gemma Primula e Jenny G dal 31.10 al 19.11. Hanno accolto noi e la nostra cagnolina Luna nella loro casa in centro storico in un modo così gentile che ci ha fatto sentire immediatamente a nostro agio.
Con loro abbiamo raccolto le olive, sistemato il Casaletto in campagna, lavorato nell'orto, cucinato e… read more

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26 août 2024

Laissé par l'hôte (Help our family live in an ...) pour le workawayer ()

Caterina and Filippo are two wonderful people with a very positive energy. It was very nice having them at our place, they helped us in many different ways. They are both very open, willing to help, responsible, relaxed and funny. We are very thankful for meeting them, wish to see them again and we recommend them :)

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25 août 2024

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This is our first experience with workaway and it was fantastic. We stay more or less 8 days.
The place where Maria and her family stay is surrendered by nature and is very peaceful, we absolutely loved how and where they live.
We did woods, gardening cooking babysitting and also some building projects and they were always willing to explain us… read more

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