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Join Anna and Dean near Varzi and experience creative life surrounded by nature.
Help with light household and garden tasks like planting and harvesting in a relaxed, flexible environment.
OPTIONAL: Make music and/or participate in the music business with creative tasks on social media.
Enjoy plenty of free time for remote work, exploring the countryside, and sharing music, art, and cultural experiences in a welcoming home. ✨
25 hours of help per week
Housekeeping: Help with changing the bed linens and general housekeeping.
Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
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.
Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!
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.
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.
Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.
Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely
Beginner English or Beginner Italian
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Help Anna Ferraro, a professional performing musician. Your generous creative energy, unique engaging spirit, and positive expressions in the many divine forms are all appreciated for generating inspiration.
Our home is up the hill from the medieval village of Varzi, a 5 minute drive by bus or car and a 45 minute walk. Varzi is about two hours drive by bus or car from Milano and a little longer ride from the coast of Genova. We also offer two bikes to use & many people cycle here.
The forest is up the hill above our home, the Staffora river below. Behind our home there are no houses, only fields of grain, farms of hazelnuts, and the forest. There are a few scattered homes to both sides. Below us is the Staffora Valley with the river only a short walk away. Here there is also a pizzeria, with the best pizza (only 8 to 10 euro) located only a short walk of 10 minutes from here, surrounded by open fields of grain.
Varzi is listed among the most beautiful medieval communes in Italy. The Friday market fills the piazza. There are 12 restaurants and a few coffee bars, a performing auditorium, old castle, and some ancient churches with historic pipe organs.
Anna's original music is jazz and popular styles, even rock & roll. There are also guitars and other instruments in the house for guests to play. Anna has played many historic church pipe organs in America and Europe. She performed concerts in Varzi and often plays classical music with the Varzi church choir. SEE links to social media: https://www.anna-ferraro.com
Dean is a book author and former investigative journalist. On our team he is assigned responsibilities for communication, scheduling, management for Anna Ferraro and organizing WorldPacker volunteers. SEE: https://www.facebook.com/deanmgray
Help in the kitchen (prepare meals and clean up) Keep the house clean (the usual stuff). Also help with light weight normal gardening activities (plant seeds, water plants, harvest, etc.) Also. occasional interior painting projects and some light home repairs and improvements. Flexible scheduling. You have time for remote online working. Optional participation in a variety of musical and artistic expressions. Post your pics and vids to your social media. Together we mutually benefit from all of our experiences.
Want more? Perhaps to visit big famous cities of Milan or Genoa? You are off work two days a week - free to do what you want and explore. Visit Milan and/or Genoa by a short public bus trip. Leave home at 6:45AM, take bus to Milan and you are there at 9AM. Trip to Genoa about 3 hours by bus. Spend a day or two as a smart tourist, keep your budget modest, and see all the famous sights without big city noise, pollution, and crowds. Florence is a little further, but also possible as two-day excursion.
No tobacco smoking. No hard drugs. Legal medical drugs, OK. Occasional light social drinking. Always positive attitude. Good ambition and optimism. The wild party is in your imagination. Rule #1 is have fun and laugh at trouble.
