Daily life with a funny and young Italian family in beautiful Viareggio, Italy

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  Description

  ****** Sorry, we’re taking a break from workaway until January 2025*******
  
  
  Hi, my name's Laura. We are a family of 5 : my husband , Paolo , our
  9 years old daughter, Diana; Perla who is almost 3 y old and a lovely hairy son Penny ( our dog ).
  
  We are looking for a well educated , responsible and proactive lady who REALLY love kids and playing with them .. and could help a little bit around the house.
  
  We Like to travel and to know different cultures and habits.
  We love cooking and eating, but we also are an active family. We like walking and cycling, skying and swimming ( depending on the weather and the season of course !!!! )
  We love nature and animals: got a jack Russel that We love so much !!!
  
  We offer room and board ; Full free wi-fi connection , many advices , a lot of italian language practice ( also english and spanish and portuguese if needed ) and a lot of love 💗
  
  
  🍝 🍕🍷🍻 Food, as part of a beautiful Italian tradition, is a very important way to know our Country and appreciate it.
  I’m not bad in cooking 😎 even if we try to eat as cleanest as possible .. My mum is the best chef i know and if you’re lucky, you can taste one of her recipes... so yummy!!!!🤤
  
  🫡 we have few rules at home which are quite important for us and they are:
  
  🙌🏼 - washing your hands before cooking and touching things in the kitchen and downloading the dishwasher
  (after eating , you should wash your hands too before downloading the dishwasher 😅… )
  
  🧼 - leave the kitchen clean as you found it after cooking or eating
  
  👠 - take off your shoes before going upstairs.
  
  
  I preferred to write this list down in order to know us a little bit more before meeting us in person .

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Teaching

  Animal Care

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We love foreign languages and we speak Italian very well, so if you appreciate to learn our language we can help you with that a lot!!! 🤓
  
  We love to cook but above all to eat.. so you can enjoy the Italian cooking. 😋🤌🏽🍷🍝
  
  You can enjoy the beach!🏖️ and the sea 🌊
  
  There is an italian school for foreigners next to our house so you can also have some italian classes or make a lot of international friends there !!!
  
  🌞 During the summer, we prefer to have light and fresh meals as salads, 🥬🥒🍅 fruits 🍉🍌🍍 and very simple food. In any case you are always free to cook whatever you prefer!
  
  on saturday and sunday we usually go out: enjoying the sun , friends or family ,so it’s possible we won’t be home for any of the weekend meals so you’re free in the kitchen and can prepare your own meal !
  
  FOR VEGETARIANS : 🫘🥦🍆🍠🥔🥒🌶️🧄🥕
  We loooove veggies and eat them a lot every day so i think it won’t be a problem at all … I just like to say that we don’t prefer to buy “prepared food” like vegetarian burgers or ready meal at the supermarket which are easily preparable at home .. you can cook your meals using fresh ingredients like vegetables or beans or cheakbeans that are always available in our pantry etc…
  
  
  We have a very comfortable accommodation. Big spaces and in the city Center of Viareggio.
  
  5 minutes far from the sea and the beach.
  In front of a park we call The Pineta which, during the summer , is full of people and attractions.
  
  In the nearby there are plenty of restaurants , bar, stores and everything you could need is at your fingertips.

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  Help

  We would like to have an experience where we share cultural habits. To learn about a different Country, different cooking.. different language , different habits !!!!
  
  We Both speak English and Spanish . 🤓
  I also speak French and portuguese and studied German and Russian even though I don’t have the chance to practice them so I basically forgot them .
  
  I would like to have a little help like in a family.. I mean.. like a sister or friend would do.
  
  We expect you to do simple ordinary things of daily life.
  
  This are the most common things :
  
  - loading and unloading the dishwasher
  
  and of course we expect you to clean your room and bathroom 🧼
  
  Since we have a cleaning lady once per week , we don’t expect you to do big cleanings.
  We just have some habits we’d like you to follow as part of our family .
  Ex : we are used to clean the bathtub after using it , so we’d like you to do the same .
  
  Keeping the bathroom as clean as possible is also very important to us .
  Remove hair from the sink and the bathtub is a must ( we are obsessed by hair 🤢) .. by the way, please tie your hair in the kitchen🙏.
  
  thank you for following these instructions and respecting our daily important habits 🙏
  
  first of all we appreciate you to play and have fun with the girls 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏽
  
  Maybe we could ask you to stay with them in the night , it could happen once a week ... but it’s not certain and very rarely .. and in any case you can refuse to do it.
  
  IN THE SUMMERTIME 🥵
  the private beach is located 5 minutes by bicycle far from our house.
  This is the place where we almost love to spend our time during the summer here.
  
  We’d like you to take the girls to the beach and play with them.
  So it would be great if you know well how to swim !
  
  Taking Penny out in the morning and evening would be one of your daily task too 🐶❤️
  
  WINTER TIME 🥶
  The "winter schedule" is obviously different from the summer one.
  
  During the autumn/winter period Diana and Perla go to school from 8am to 4pm and Diana also has activities in the afternoon ( singing and theatre ) so your " helping hours" will be organized in the left time and on Saturday which is the only free day Diana has from school ( Sunday is always a no working day).
  
  ‼️ This could be more or less a WEEK SCHEDULE PLAN:
  
  
  Monday to friday ( 4 helping hours/day)
  
  🐶 8 to 8,30= take Penny out for the morning walk
  
  🧘🏽‍♀️ 8,30 pm to 4pm YOU’re FREE
  
  🐶4pm to 4,30pm = Penny out
  
  🥳 4,30pm to 7 pm = playing and households time
  
  🐶 9 pm to 9,30 pm = Penny out
  
  ‼️playing time means to be proactive and able to invent games preferably avoiding internet or tv or phone or tablet ;
  singing, dancing , acting , dressing up, listening to music … are always welcome 🤗
  
  playing time also means to help the girls to get the habit to put all the toys in place as they found them .
  
  if for some reason the girls are not available, then you could help me with some households like :
  - sweeping the patio
  - vacuuming the floor
  - cooking something for dinner.
  
  
  Saturday (4 working hours )
  🐶🥳 9 to 13
  9: penny out
  9:30 playing time
  
  Sunday :
  🛌 😴 sleeping 💤
  🐶 Penny out
  DAY OFF
  
  we are grartful for your precious help !! 🙏
  
  📱 Important: we know how the phone is part of our life nowadays, but...... we really appreciate you not to use it while spending your time with the kids . Paolo and I are already using the phone so much for work that we hate that our daughters see this bad example.
  So We would love to see you laughing and playing and speaking about everything .. having some real quality time . The phone unfortunately is very distracting!!!

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  Portuguese: Fluent
  French: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
  You can contact them directly for more information.
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  Accommodation

  🛏️ 🛁 We offer a private single room and a bathroom you’ll share with Diana & Perla sometimes.
  
  I'd like to underline that our location is really coveted because it is located in the city center and I can assure you that there is a HUGE difference between living in the suburbs and living HERE 😎 or even living in the small neighboring towns as, for example Camaiore, Stiava, Piano di conca, Querceta, Torre del lago, Massarosa, Capezzano
  ect ect.....
  
  in the past wee used to rent this room for 500 Euros per week during the summertime and 600 Euros per month during the wintertime.... just to let you know that this has a certain value you should consider !!! 💰
  
  
  
  Talking about Viareggio, we feel lucky to live here because we are near to so many beautiful places to visit !!!
  Pisa ( 20 min by train )
  Lucca ( 20 min by train )
  Florence ( 1 hour by train )
  Le 5 terre !! ( i’m Not sure about the distance but i’m Sure it is easy to reach!!!) and they are amazing!!!
  
  If you will stay here during January and February, we can show you our amazing Carnival!! 🥳
  A street party that lasts almost one month!!!
  Check on the internet “ Carnival of Viareggio” and you’ll see how amazing it looks like!!!

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  What else ...

  you can go by bicycle to move in the nearby .. to enjoy the nightlife too because everything is reachable and at your fingertips!!!
  But you’ll enjoy walking too.
  
  You certainly should have a look to the promenade ( we call it “ la passeggiata”)
  The dock.. ( il molo )
  The pier ( il pontile )
  The Pinewood Park ( la Pineta )
  The market ( il mercato )
  The beach ( la spiaggia )
  
  Towns in the very nearby:
  Pietrasanta
  Forte dei Marmi
  Torre del lago
  Carrara ( the marble city )
  Camaiore
  
  very closed from us:
  Lucca
  Pisa
  Firenze
  Cinque terre
  La Spezia
  Isola d’Elba

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  Hours expected

  5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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