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House & botanical garden on a magical Aeolian Island, Italy

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The experience

You like cooking? Help me in the kitchen, shopping and gardening. I do need a helping hand to maintain my private 2000m2 botanical home garden with a handful of olive and foreign subtropical trees.
Anyone who loves the whisper of the wind in the palm trees, the music on guitar or piano or sleeping under twinkling stars is welcome! A bit of a romanticism helps - and the wish to live in exchange a harmonic, simple life close to mother nature.

What you offer

18 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

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

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

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

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner Italian

Between 24 and 60 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

You live very remote here on the "Island Beyond the Moon". Drinking only rainwater. Being offline with digital time thieves. (But connenction is possible). The island offers you a rare luxury: silence, spirituality, hospitality, pure air, deep sleep, music, safety, a clear sea and a pristine island: 9,5 km square. You may hike on the northern side on trails from Roman times. Or climb to a 4000 years old neolithic altar.
Walking is a must here. From 300m altitude in 35 minutes down to the beach, in 20 minutes to the Pizzeria to the "Uncle of America" to buy food once a week.
We work mostly in the cooler hours in the garen. When free, you may snorkel at your own. Or visit the local "Conservation Wildlife" in the pittoresque harbour of Percorini. In summertime there are massage, yoga offers. And spontaneous gatherins of people with music in front of Pecorini "Saloon".

Free accommodation in the Guesthouse(liparinsel.ch) - or if occupied outdoor in a tent or hammock.
2-3 hours work each day

Activities & Shift

Cooking, cultivating trees, some garden work, watering and more.

Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Latin: Beginner
Portuguese: Beginner

Rules

I appreciate no smokers because of the huge fire hazard on the Aeolian Islands. The traveller has to be flexible and ready to live a modest live. We depend to 100% on rainwater, which we use carefully.