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Hi, we are Alan and Louise. We have been Workawayers ourselves in past years, whilst travelling in Europe and the UK. We loved the work experience, meeting new people, the sharing of cultures. We are now retired (ex teachers), but we have a new adventure here at home in Taranaki. We have built a new house and are making a new garden. There are plenty of projects to help us with. We have 2 acres of native bush as a backdrop to our home. Alan plays ukulele, guitar and mandolin so there will be an opportunity to jam. His stone sculptures are a major feature of our garden. You might get to watch him sculpting. We have had many friends and travellers stay with us over the years. We would love to meet new ones, along with appreciating their help around our home.
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Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado
Jardinagem geral
Projetos DIY criativos
Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
Ajuda a cuidar da casa
Manutenção geral
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Interesses
Eventos e social
Vida na estrada
Cultura
Carpintaria
Faça você mesmo
Desenho e pintura
Cuidar de plantas
Jardinagem
Livros
Arte e design
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Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado
For your time off we will give you ideas of local places to visit, depending on your interests. We will endeavour to make your stay a happy and rewarding one. We are happy to transport you about a bit.
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Ajuda
General garden and grounds maintenance and new development in a large garden. Cutting back flowering plants. Hedge trimming with electric trimmer. Spreading mulch. Helping Alan with small landscaping projects. Household chores and gardening with Louise.
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Inglês: Fluente
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Acomodação
We offer a bedroom with a queen bed, your own shower and bathroom facility. However our visitors may use the bathroom when visiting. Should friends travelling together require separate bedrooms, this can be accommodated. All meals will be provided. Any special dietary needs can be sorted out together. We are happy to cook the meals, but always appreciate help in the kitchen. Breakfasts are casual, self help meals. Non smokers only please. No recreational drugs to be used on our property, but we are happy to share a wine or beer with you. NB We are on a lifestyle block 5 minutes drive from any shops.
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Our Maunga, Mount Taranaki, is a beautiful part of our province. There are several bush tracks to enjoy. We have a beautiful park in the centre of New Plymouth city. You can drive around the mountain easily in a day, stopping at interesting art and craft shops and eating places. We have great beaches to stroll along and a fabulous coastal walkway to walk or hire a bike. And of course there are numerous museums and galleries in easy driving distance. Should you not have a vehicle, we are happy to take you some places or help you find public transport.
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Espaço para estacionar campervans
We have had motorhomes ourselves and are set up with regulation electrical connections.
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Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 419369587863
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5 jul. 2026
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Antonio & Lena)
Antonio and Lena are a beautiful couple. We thoroughly enjoyed their company and hope they might return in the summer, as our visitors. Once again, our Taranaki weather was not kind with wind for three days! Their help with staking and tying trees was appreciated. Trees were planted, shrubs moved. A bamboo sculpture was completed, artistically
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1 jul. 2026
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Antonio & Lena) para o anfitrião
It was all around a perfect Workaway and we can recommend it to 100%!
Alan and Louise are really nice company and we had good conversations, learned about the Kiwi culture, we had good laughs, card game evenings and always good food! The work was good to manage. Louise and Alan are really good hosts and they made Taranaki region to a special … read more
Alan and Louise are really nice company and we had good conversations, learned about the Kiwi culture, we had good laughs, card game evenings and always good food! The work was good to manage. Louise and Alan are really good hosts and they made Taranaki region to a special … read more
18 jun. 2026
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Julia & Kate)
Julia and Kate arrived in their van just as the weather started to change for the worse! However they indicated they were more than happy to don gumboots and raincoats. We worked around the rain showers for a couple of days, cleaning windows and doing indoor tasks. Finally we were able to get onto the major task of pruning hydrangeas, for which
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17 jun. 2026
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Julia & Kate) para o anfitrião
Alan and Louise were our second ever Workaway, and we are so grateful for the week we spent with them! The list of new things and skills we learnt is endless eg pruning hydrangeas, made a stone wall, mulching, ride on lawnmower, cooking award-winning cheese rolls (haha), and we loved that they work alongside you - for good chats, laughs and
… read more
5 jun. 2026
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Hannah & Simon) para o anfitrião
Our week with Alan and Louise was absolutely lovely - they are an incredible couple with so much wisdom, kindness and patience in sharing their wealth of knowledge!
It was great to have variety of tasks to help with for the week - hedge trimming, mulching, general tidying of the beautiful grounds - and also some fun art projects we got to work … read more
It was great to have variety of tasks to help with for the week - hedge trimming, mulching, general tidying of the beautiful grounds - and also some fun art projects we got to work … read more
5 jun. 2026
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Hannah & Simon)
Hannah and Simon are a great couple. They were super polite and helpful, lending a hand in the house also. Simon worked hard with Alan on hedge trimming, picking up and mulching. Also laying garden tiles. Hannah helped Louise prune hydrangeas on the driveway and spread bucket loads of mulch. In the final day the pair of them used their creative
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5 jul. 2026
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Antonio & Lena)
Antonio and Lena are a beautiful couple. We thoroughly enjoyed their company and hope they might return in the summer, as our visitors. Once again, our Taranaki weather was not kind with wind for three days! Their help with staking and tying trees was appreciated. Trees were planted, shrubs moved. A bamboo sculpture was completed, artistically
… read more
1 jul. 2026
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Antonio & Lena) para o anfitrião
It was all around a perfect Workaway and we can recommend it to 100%!
Alan and Louise are really nice company and we had good conversations, learned about the Kiwi culture, we had good laughs, card game evenings and always good food! The work was good to manage. Louise and Alan are really good hosts and they made Taranaki region to a special … read more
Alan and Louise are really nice company and we had good conversations, learned about the Kiwi culture, we had good laughs, card game evenings and always good food! The work was good to manage. Louise and Alan are really good hosts and they made Taranaki region to a special … read more
18 jun. 2026
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Julia & Kate)
Julia and Kate arrived in their van just as the weather started to change for the worse! However they indicated they were more than happy to don gumboots and raincoats. We worked around the rain showers for a couple of days, cleaning windows and doing indoor tasks. Finally we were able to get onto the major task of pruning hydrangeas, for which
… read more
17 jun. 2026
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Julia & Kate) para o anfitrião
Alan and Louise were our second ever Workaway, and we are so grateful for the week we spent with them! The list of new things and skills we learnt is endless eg pruning hydrangeas, made a stone wall, mulching, ride on lawnmower, cooking award-winning cheese rolls (haha), and we loved that they work alongside you - for good chats, laughs and
… read more
5 jun. 2026
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Hannah & Simon) para o anfitrião
Our week with Alan and Louise was absolutely lovely - they are an incredible couple with so much wisdom, kindness and patience in sharing their wealth of knowledge!
It was great to have variety of tasks to help with for the week - hedge trimming, mulching, general tidying of the beautiful grounds - and also some fun art projects we got to work … read more
It was great to have variety of tasks to help with for the week - hedge trimming, mulching, general tidying of the beautiful grounds - and also some fun art projects we got to work … read more
5 jun. 2026
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Hannah & Simon)
Hannah and Simon are a great couple. They were super polite and helpful, lending a hand in the house also. Simon worked hard with Alan on hedge trimming, picking up and mulching. Also laying garden tiles. Hannah helped Louise prune hydrangeas on the driveway and spread bucket loads of mulch. In the final day the pair of them used their creative
… read more
7 jan. 2026
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Hanna & Tilde)
Our very first Workawayers from Sweden, Hanna and Tilde are lovely girls, interesting and good company. Help with hedge trimming and cleaning windows were the main tasks asked of them, but they also planted daffodils, trimmed topiary and cooked. Among other things, we enjoyed toffees, rhubarb cordial, cookies and pesto. They work hard and are very
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26 dez. 2025
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Hanna & Tilde) para o anfitrião
We had an amazing experience at Louise's and Alan's place! One of the most beautiful gardens we have ever seen and we had so mush fun working and helping them with gardening! We all worked mostly together witch was a nice way of getting to know them better! And when we were done with work we had a lot of time to explore the area and do all the fun
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19 jun. 2025
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Amalie & Svava) para o anfitrião
We had an amazing stay at Alan and Louise’s house in New Plymouth. We definitely learned new things about the kiwi culture and gardening (plus a bit about stone sculptures). They were good at involving us in the planning process and made sure we got the most out of our short stay (8 days). We got to see a lot of New Plymouth, thanks to Louise for
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15 jun. 2025
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Amalie & Svava)
Amalie and Svava were a delight to have stay in our home and to help us with various tasks. Our hydrangeas are pruned ready for spring growth. Windows cleaned, yet another fence painted. The girls both enjoy cooking. As a result we now have several jars of delicious feijoa jam, rhubarb conserve .. and a rye bread starter in the fridge. The girls
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31 mar. 2025
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Franziska & Erik)
Franzi and Eric were great workawayers! Alan made good use of Eric's practical skills. He proved to be very hardworking, skilful and great at using his initiative. We look forward to sending pictures of the grapevine flourishing on the retaining wall he constructed with Alan. Franzi is a delightful and intelligent young woman. She and Louise
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24 mar. 2025
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Franziska & Erik) para o anfitrião
We had an amazing time staying with Louise and Alan! They are such kind and welcoming people, and we really enjoyed our conversations with them. They went out of their way to take us wherever we wanted to go and gave us great recommendations on things to do in the area.
Their home and garden are absolutely beautiful, and we felt very comfortable … read more
Their home and garden are absolutely beautiful, and we felt very comfortable … read more
12 jan. 2025
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Maëlle)
Melina and Maelle are both super young women. They were very helpful during their stay with us. The girls painted fences, cleaned windows, potted up plants and cleaned my kitchen (oh that was wonderful!), among other tasks. They were so helpful in general and good company also. We would surely recommend them to other hosts.
10 nov. 2024
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Elena)
Well, Elena was yet another absolutely lovely young traveller we were privileged to host in our home. She is courteous, considerate, capable and great company. She helped us with many and varied tasks, learning new skills for some. She discovered she has an artistic side, persevering with learning the ukulele and showing great ability. Elena is
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26 out. 2024
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Elena) para o anfitrião
I arrived to Alan's and Louise's looking for a shelter for two weeks while waiting for my van to be ready, and I ended up finding a home in New Zealand.
Together we've worked in the garden (planting, doing mulch, taking off weeds, trimming,...) and in the house (cleaning windows, cooking together and, of course, making concrete!), and I'm lucky … read more
Together we've worked in the garden (planting, doing mulch, taking off weeds, trimming,...) and in the house (cleaning windows, cooking together and, of course, making concrete!), and I'm lucky … read more
28 ago. 2024
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Olivia)
Olivia is a beautiful soul. She spent just a few days with us and worked hard on the tasks we had to do. She is an expert in bucketing mulch onto our gardens, doing this tedious job willingly! She cleaned windows thoroughly and at speed! Olivia was here at a very social time in our household. She fitted in easily and our guests enjoyed her
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9 mai. 2024
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Emanuelle & Célestin Jules) para o anfitrião
For our first workaway experience, Louise & Alan were the best hosts we could ever hope for. They made us feel welcome and we immediately felt at home. They were both kind, thoughtful and generous. We really enjoyed working alongside them, and the variety of tasks was greatly appreciated too. Louise’s cooking was excellent. We loved sharing views
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3 mai. 2024
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Emanuelle & Célestin Jules)
Emmanuelle and Celestin were a pleasure to host. They worked hard, in fact they offered to do more than required! They always helped in the kitchen. Emanuelle and I had a lot of fun baking with recipes from the Edmonds Cookbook and experimenting with gluten free flour. We planted the vegetable garden. Emanuelle did a great job of pruning the
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28 mar. 2024
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Lucie & Sévan) para o anfitrião
We had a wonderful week with Alan and Louise.
Their house and garden are beautiful and it was lovely to work right across from Mount Taranaki. They offered us a wide variety of activities and we felt totally included in their daily life. This charming and energetic couple were very patient with us and gave us lots of opportunities to learn … read more
Their house and garden are beautiful and it was lovely to work right across from Mount Taranaki. They offered us a wide variety of activities and we felt totally included in their daily life. This charming and energetic couple were very patient with us and gave us lots of opportunities to learn … read more
27 mar. 2024
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Lucie & Sévan)
Lucie and Sevan have been with us for a week, leaving for their next adventure this morning. We are already missing them! They are a lovely couple, fun to be with, hard working and agreeable to any task we gave them. Both Lucie and Sevan helped in the house without being asked to do so. We enjoyed discussions on our cultural similarities and
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6 fev. 2024
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Douglas & Lucy)
Douglas was SO helpful. He used his initiative and was a very willing worker. Alan enjoyed his company and greatly appreciated his skills in helping to construct a retaining wall, create steps and restore furniture. Douglas is a real "gentleman". He was great to have staying in our home. We covered several topics of interest to us all in our
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2 out. 2023
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Anthony) para o anfitrião
Alan and Louise have been awesome hosts. From the first day I felt comfortable with them and like at home. I really enjoyed helping them with their new garden, the work wasn't hard, quite new every day and I never felt lost as Alan and I worked together. Louise is an awesome cooker and they helped me a lot with my stuff ! Alan and Louise have
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22 set. 2023
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Anthony)
Anthony was great to have stay in our home and an excellent workawayer worker. He arrived at the time we were preparing and seeding a large new lawn. Lots of raking the topsoil! He worked very hard with an excellent result. We now have a thick green lawn. Anthony also helped Alan with moving sculptures and building garden steps. Heavy, hard work.
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4 jun. 2023
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (William)
We really enjoyed having Will stay with us. He is so easy to chat with and he worked very hard. He dug drains, spread barrow loads of garden mulch, helped build a fence and gate. On wet days he sanded down a couple of chairs, ready for reupholstering. Will was quick to learn new skills, having obviously a good range of practical knowledge already.
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23 mai. 2023
Deixado pelo Workawayer (William) para o anfitrião
Alan and Louise are fantastic hosts! Such kind, generous and accomodating people that made my Workaway experience very special. I undertook a variety of fun tasks and learnt alot along the way. Louise cooks such delicious meals and really caters for all. They told such fantastic stories of their adventures together and helped me explore New
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4 jun. 2023
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Lene Sophie)
Lene is an amazing young woman. She appears quiet, but holds very sound values which support her well in her life. She was always helpful and hardworking. She is open to learning new skills. Lene painted a fence, worked in the garden, cleaned windows, cooked with me, planted seeds and vegetable plants. We hope we may meet up with Lene again one
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21 abr. 2023
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Lene Sophie) para o anfitrião
It was a pleasure staying with Louise and Alan! I couldn’t imagine better hosts than them! Alan and Louise were so kind, open-minded, generous, caring and helpful!
I really enjoyed staying at their beautiful house and the big, nice garden!
We worked a little bit in the garden and in the house, but not too much!
I planted vegetables and painted … read more
I really enjoyed staying at their beautiful house and the big, nice garden!
We worked a little bit in the garden and in the house, but not too much!
I planted vegetables and painted … read more
4 jun. 2023
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Emilie)
We thoroughly enjoyed having Emilie stay with us. She did a great job on all the tasks we gave her. She worked in the garden with us, painted a fence and cleaned windows among other tasks. She was quick to see an opportunity to help, without being asked. Emilie has a lovely sense of humour and empathy for others. We hope she will return to us
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18 abr. 2023
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Emilie) para o anfitrião
Alan and Louise are amazing, they are kind and they take time to share with you. You can do DIY project with Alan and you can go to swim in the sea with Louise !
I had a lot of fun and really good talk with them !
I wish I could have stay longer but I had already other project.
I totally recommand them !
what was also very great is that there … read more
I had a lot of fun and really good talk with them !
I wish I could have stay longer but I had already other project.
I totally recommand them !
what was also very great is that there … read more
6 set. 2020
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Anna)
Anna was an absolute delight to have in our home. She stayed with us for almost two weeks and we could have had her stay for a month. A very hard worker, she used her initiative in helping about the home and took on any task willingly. Additionally, Anna was just such lovely company. We happened to have a very social time while she was with us and
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1 set. 2020
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Anna) para o anfitrião
What can I say, Louise and Alan were amazing! They are are really caring and thoughtful. I had a lovely room for myself and my own bathroom. We shared all our meals together and Louise is an amazing cook! Alan taught me to play the Ukulele and Louise made sure I saw all of New Plymouth. Really nice workaway experience and I hope to see you soon
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11 jul. 2020
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Maxime)
Maxime was friendly and keen to share his wide knowledge on a variety of topics. Tasks he was given were completed to a good standard.
11 jul. 2020
Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Natacha)
We admire Natacha's courage in coming to New Zealand to learn English and have new experiences. At times the language differences are challenging for her. When she is shown how to do a task, Natacha completes the work to a high standard. We had a lot of fun teaching her the ukulele.
8 jul. 2020
Deixado pelo Workawayer (Natacha) para o anfitrião
Louise and Alan are magnificent people. They were patient with my English. The food is delicious, the conversations interesting. I am happy to have met them, to have learned to play ukulele with Alan. My house is warm. You will not miss anything. They have a wonderful project and it is a pleasure to accompany them. You cannot be disappointed to
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