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Help us with cooking & cleaning in a pilgrim hostel

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The experience

- You'll help with some cleaning duties and house chores
- You'll help with cooking tasty vegetarian/vegan meals for the pilgrims, and also for yourself of course :).

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Spanish

Between 23 and 70 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We expect you to work for 20-25 hours a week, with 2 days off (Saturday is an obligatory day off, since we close for that day, the 2nd day off you can take any day of the week). During your free time, you can enjoy either our place or its surroundings. We have bikes for volunteers, and both beautiful beaches and natural sights are within 30 minutes of easy bike ride away. The best beach is just 15 minutes bike ride away.

Basically the house is a pilgrim hostel, where people on the way of Saint James stop to rest, always for one night. We serve them good vegan dinner, and make sure they have a comfortable stay with us. You can enjoy interactions with pilgrims from all around the world while in the house, or spend your free time exploring the natural surroundings. The house is in a small town, but both beaches and mountains are within an easy reach by bike or even by walking.

Activities & Shift

On the five days you work each week, your shift will be split into two parts:

1st part: In the morning (anytime between 8:30am and 1:30pm), you'll help for 3-4 hours with cleaning the place and with some pre-preparation for the pilgrim meal (such as cutting vegetables for example).

2nd part: In the evening, before and after dinner, you'll help with setting and cleaning the table and putting the dishes to the dishwasher and with preparing the breakfast. The tasks after dinner take about 1 hour, and you do them between 8:30pm and 10pm, depending on when we finish eating the dinner (sometimes pilgrims go to sleep early, on other evenings there's a lot of interesting talk, which means the dinner prolongs).

The rest of the day (between 1pm and 7pm) you'll be free to enjoy either the house or its surroundings, having a bike on your disposal.

Rules

- We prefer non-smokers, and the entire house is no-smoking zone.
- All meals served here are vegan (dinner) or vegan/vegetarian (lunch and breakfast). You should be okay with such a diet during your stay. It is not allowed cooking/preparing any non-vegetarian meals in the house.