Help with maintenance, gardening and dogs in the Alpujarra Valley near Granada, Spain

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  Descrição

  We are not taking workers now until March 2024. We are looking for someone (or a coople) who is strong and likes working outdoors, for a minimum of a 2-week stay. We need help to sort out our gardens and land, everything needs tidying up plus we have to rebuild a shed. It will involve weeding, pruning, digging stuff out and chopping things down, plus we have new water channels to dig and small stone walls to build. We are too old for all this and need help. It'll be quite hard work but the spring is usually wonderful here so it could be fun too.
  
  Orgiva has wonderful clean mountain air, good walking and lots of places to visit like the beach which is half an hour away. Come and join us for the month of April and enjoy our land, our dogs and cats (all rescue) and our beautiful pool/gardens and local amenities. We are a friendly bunch of three folks living in a great part of the world. We enjoy life, eat well and have a laugh - so join us for some fun and rewarding work.
  
  We have 1.25 acres of Spanish campo land which needs attention, we are building stone walls and still developing the gardens - plus doing all sorts of things on the land like picking olives from our 25 trees. Currently we have 3 dogs (all rescue) and 5 cats. We have rescued and moved on more than 125 dogs/pups in the last 10 years. It's been very rewarding and they have been great fun, we no longer do the rescue but now have 3 lovely dogs that we have kept. The dogs are outdoors with their own 'house' in a half-acre paddock. The cats are house cats so have a very comfortable life.
  
  We are a couple, plus our close friend who live in a casita at the top of our land. We are all in our 70s so we need strong fit helpers as we are all a bit past it! We like positively motivated people to help us with all we have to do, but we have fun too and in past years our helpers have been very happy and stayed longer than they had planned. We have friends here who also take helpers so we may be able to help you to your next place if you like it here. We have successfully managed to do this 3 times now.
  
  Our country house is in the Alpujarra Valley, half way between Granada and the coast. We let the a large part of the house as a 'holiday home' in the summer and holiday times, while we live in the 'main' house. We've done quite a bit of work on both 'homes' sometimes with the help of volunteers.
  
  We have over 70 trees which need to be cared for and from Nov to Feb the almonds and olives need to be picked. We have created a beautiful garden complete with pool, so there's always work to do, watering and tending for everything.
  
  Our volunteers will stay in their own room with bathroom, and will share our kitchen. We provide three meals per day plus a coffee break, but we are flexible and can provide food for you to prepare if you want to go walking. We expect 5 hours help per day, 5 days a week. Usually we like to have the weekends off and helpers are free to come and go as they please, but we like to have the evening meal together if possible as this maintains a family atmosphere.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral

  Ajuda com computadores/internet
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  Spain is a fabulous country with loads of history and culture. The Alpujarra Valley is stunning with a special story of its own dating back to the Moors and even as far back to the Stone Age. Granada and the coast are both within easy reach, the Alhambra Palace is a must see and the coast here is very unspoilt with small Spanish beach towns and lovely beaches.

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  Ajuda

  We have ongoing maintenance work on our house and garden, plus we are constantly doing work to improve the property, for example tiling patios and rebuilding stone walls and paths. Being pensioners we increasingly need help to manage our land, animals and buildings. We need our volunteers to be practical and have certain skills that we don't have, or be able to do tasks that we are no longer strong enough to do.
  
  We are very easy going and do our best to make our helpers stay as pleasant as possible. We are flexible about hours and which days you work, however we like to keep the weekends quiet!
  We've had many good years with volunteers since 2014 and are now looking forward to meeting more interesting, enthusiastic and hard working people this year!

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  Idiomas

  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Intermediário
  Francês: Iniciante

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  Acomodação

  A large double room (double bed) with ensuite private bathroom. You will share the large kitchen with us. We provide three meals per day for our workers, or food can be provided for volunteers to create their own meal especially in the summer when hot food is not necessary. Food is provided on the weekend but on a slightly more relaxed basis.

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  Algo mais...

  Orgiva is in the Alpujarra Valley which is 1500 feet above sea level, an area of outstanding natural beauty and a paradise for walking, cycling and horse riding. The highest mountain in southern Europe, Mulhacen, is walkable for the fit, it takes about 5 hours. Orgiva is 35 mins drive from the Costa Del Sol, the nearest beach is at Motril, but there are many beautiful beaches and interesting resorts including Almunecar (Jazz Festival mid July), La Herradura, and Nerja which has several beaches.
  
  Orgiva is a very special place, it is very New Age, full of alternative ways of living (yurts/vans etc) including travellers and hippies. Market day is busy and full of colour and life of all sorts. We are 5 mins (2 kms) drive to Orgiva which is the nearest town, or a 40 minute walk. It is half an hour's drive to Pampaneira and Capilleira, two of the highest mountain villages in Spain. Granada, 50 mins drive, is a beautiful cultured city and the famous Alhambra Palace is a must see.
  Malaga airport is 1 hour 40 mins drive, there are two buses a day direct to Orgiva, but many buses via Granada where you change bus.

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  2

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  Horas previstas

  5 hours per day for 5 days per week

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