Elisa & Cailean

Information de voyage

Actuellement, nous sommes

Description

*Updated May 2026: We have one Workaway arranged for the first half of June, in Italy, and are looking for the next one! Our plan is to spend three months in Europe, from 1st June, doing only Workaway.*

Hi! We are Elisa and Cailean and we are excited to explore new places and ways of life.
We have lived in Scotland our whole lives - in Glasgow and also the Scottish Isles - and so have a great passion for the natural world and the outdoors which we would love to share.

We met in Glasgow but each have experience living and working in varied and remote places. Cailean grew up on a small family farm on the Isle of Skye looking after sheep, pigs, chickens and ducks, as well as dogs and cats. He liked the peaceful but vast atmosphere of the Hebrides which makes you feel fully a part of the landscape yet also fosters a strong and caring sense of community and family amongst the people who live there. I left Skye at 19 to study Physics at the University of Glasgow, and lived in the city for 6 years before recently moving back to the Highlands to be a bit closer to family.

Eliza's previous Workaways (some on old accounts) include Portugal as a farmhand, but also building a firepit, cooking and cleaning, repairing fences and building a concrete dog run; Greece, helping to renovate a villa, so painting, plastering, rendering and gardening; Isle of Canna (Scotland), caring for cows, sheep, dogs, and cleaning and doing laundry for the island's campsite and shop; Italy, chopping wood (Eliza's favourite thing to do!), manually removing parts of a fallen house from the ground and taking them back uphill in a wheelbarrow to be rebuilt.

In Cailean's free time, he loves to read, play guitar, play piano, and cook (he is an excellent cook according to Eliza!). Elisa loves to write, draw, occasionally read tarot cards, and also play guitar.
Together we like to go on day trips, and have spent the last year exploring some of the smaller towns and communities of Scotland to enjoy the scenery and learn more about the history and stories of where we live.
We enjoy spending time outdoors doing anything from swimming and hiking, to long drives through the country, or sitting in our garden having little fires in our chiminea for friends and neighbours to join.
We share a keen love of music, spending a great deal of time playing guitar and singing together - anything from 70s pop to traditional folk songs to modern indie - which we'd always be happy to share.

We want to go on workaway together to see new places, but feel like we are staying with friends. Being with locals is such a beautiful way to explore the world, and make lifelong memories.

We are looking for workaway hosts who are happy for us to explore nearby places in our free time, and can understand that we both value time alone as socialising all the time can tire us both out. Apart from that, we are really excited to meet anyone :)

We are both very clean and neat people, who will take good care of your home, garden, our room, and everything else you give to us. We are very grateful, and we like to help extra - doing things like washing dishes, empty the rubbish bins, feed animals.

We look forward to hearing from you and hope to meet you soon :)

Centres d’intérêt

Films et télé

Histoire

Livres

Cuisine et alimentation

Animaux

Art et design

Astronomie

Plage

Camping

Bénévolat

Culture

Bricolage / artisanat

Dessin et peinture

Ferme

Jardinage

Randonnée

Auto-stop

Montagne

Langues

Musique

Activités en plein air

Nature

Animaux de compagnie

Soin des plantes

Voile / bateau

Dev. durable

Écriture

Yoga / bien-être

Végétarien ou végan

Langues parlées

Anglais: Courant
Gaelic (Scottish): Intermédiaire
Espagnol: Débutant
Italien: Débutant

Compétences et connaissances que nous aimerions partager ou apprendre

Ça nous intéresse :  

Projets artistiques

Langues

Éco-projets

Aider dans une ferme

Garde de maison et d'animaux

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Nous avons des connaissances :  

Travail associatif

Jardinage

Bricolage et projets de construction

S’occuper des animaux

Aider à la maison

Accueil / tourisme

Entretien général

Aide informatique / Internet

Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

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Nous pouvons apprendre aux autres:  

Tenir compagnie à une pers. âgée

Enseignement

Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

Elisa's skills are from childcare, care of disabled people and elderly care (she studied teaching for a year, and worked in a care home), to tidying and organising a house, moving heavy things like furniture (from working in removals), mending clothes, some DIY and repairing around the house, and gardening - big and small projects, from weeding and pruning to installing polytunnel irrigation systems and planting vegetable gardens. She has painted murals and built firepits on previous workaways, and would love to do those again! She can follow your instructions and ideas. She can also happily think of creative solutions to problems and have fun delivering them. She loves to look after animals, her favourites are sheep, cows and dogs.

Cailean grew up with lots of animals and has good experience taking care of them; keeping sheep, chickens and pigs that were loved and taken care of like pets, along with dogs and cats. We also had a large garden where we kept apple and pear trees, wild flowers, and a polytunnel we built ourselves with herbs and small plants, so I'd be more than happy to help out with any gardening tasks, including building planters and flower beds.
I love to cook and try out new recipes, and to share my food with others, especially given the chance to use home grown or local ingredients.
I've participated in archaeological digs in Scotland where we spent days at a time digging up patches of ground, digging and bagging up soil for analysis, carefully sorting through the stones and objects underneath, and replacing the turf afterwards to ensure no damage to the environment, all of which is great experience for a wide variety of outdoor and garden tasks you may want done.
I'm a very organised and tidy person with an interest in decorating and keeping places looking nice: I can paint, build furniture and would be happy to tackle any other jobs needing done around the house. I've also cleaned holiday homes professionally and can do so to a very high standard.
On Skye where I grew up there is lots of interest in making things from basic materials and with your own hands, so I have in the past made benches and tables, gardening equipment, fences and walls and firepits from sustainable and easily found materials like driftwood and stone.
I'm a fairly experienced guitar player with about 15 years experience, and I've taught around 5 people from absolute beginner how to play chords and some simple songs.
I have quite a big family with 10 nieces and nephews, all of whom I've spent time taking care of from when they were babies to teenagers, so I'd be comfortable with childcare and arranging activities.

Âge

27 & 26

Informations complémentaires

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  Fumeur

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  Permis de conduire

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  Allergies
  no

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  Régime alimentaire spécial
  Elisa is vegetarian