Olympus Olive Grove
PLEASE DON'T!!! IF YOU DON'T MEET THE REQUIREMENTS PLEASE DON'T APPLY. To you this is a glorified holiday with a free board and meal, but it's my mom's home and livelihood. She has been running it alone for 30 years now, but alas now that she is getting too old and her health has deteriorated she agreed to let me find some volunteers for her. Our first 2 experiences were a disaster because of the language barrier and the fact that the volunteers had lied in their profiles and communications. So please only apply if you meet the requirements. I don't want my mother to suffer.
You would enjoy this part of the world because it's simply magical. The beach is a 15 min walk down... Mount Olympus is at the back, for the nature lovers and hikers, etc.. the mountaineering club of Olympus and other regional clubs run events all year round weather permitting. Tons of history and points of interest to explore in all of mainland Greece. Access by train and bus. Airport 90 min away. Great access to major cities like Thessaloniki and the North and central Greece in general.
If you are into not only nature, but history and culture, you do realise all of Greece ticks these boxes. So it doesn't matter where you volunteer. But there's only one Mount Olympus.
My mom Niki is a tough woman. She is one loud vivacious grandma, let me tell you! She can be quite scary, but she's a total softy on the inside. She will talk to herself or yell at the TV, or you for that matter, but it's all good. 🤣🤣 she is just Greek. That's how the Greeks roll. It can't be helped. She is uber energetic to her own detriment. She has very strong work ethics and even though she is very ill she will works full time on the farm. As you can imagine she doesn't take kindly to people who are lazy or procrastinate. "If you have a job to do, do it and do it well or don't do it all." That's definitely the top principle in her life. The second is "don't lie!"
There's lots of stuff she can't or shouldn't be doing any more, but like I said she is stubborn as a mule. She drives like Schumaher and swears like a sailor. She doesn't smoke or drink, She loves sustainable cooking with produce straight from her plot, so she can teach you a million things from the Greek Cuisine if you are willing to learn.
By the way, Niki speaks only Greek and understands very little English, so your communication will be through google translator 99.99%. You can't be calling me 24/7 asking me to translate. Even if you don't, my mom will if she doesn't understand you. So it's imperative that you use google translate efficiently for all communications. You can practice Greek even that way and save the conversations for further studying instead of driving my mother crazy pretending you don't understand or worse that you understand what she said but you still didn't do sth pretending that you misunderstood after the fact. Being lazy takes time and patience on your end and frankly your aren't fooling anyone; definitely not my mom.
For other logistics you will be in touch with me, her daughter kelly. There's no staff. It's just her. She is a one-woman machine. 🥰
P.s. my mom is a veeeeery knowledgeable person; about EVERYTHING. 🤣🤣🤣To make matters worse, she does everything better than everyone else and definitely most men she had the pleasure of working with in her life, so try to imagine her standards🤣🤣🤣And noooo... she never makes mistakes...NEVER... 🤣🤣🤣🤦♀️So let's just say she is always right and leave it at that. 🫣