Area: Languedoc

Our Chateau is a 7 bedroom home running activity holidays and occasionally offering B&B. It is run by Julia (with the help of Teg, my Border Collie dog) who enjoys welcoming volunteers to help with the many tasks such a big enterprise involves. During the autumn during some weeks we are running holiday courses and I will be looking for help with catering, kitchen work, cleaning and generally taking care of our guests who are mainly english speaking. Other weeks the work will be maintaining the house & garden. The house is mostly renovated but there are still some jobs inside the house to be done. Help is mostly needed with light painting and repairing. The gardens are in the process of being restored from the jungle that we found when we bought it 5 years ago. I am also looking for help this autumn with computer related tasks, copy writing and production of ads, video production for promoting the Chateau, photo archive scanning, etc!!

Area: Ariège Pyrénées

We are a family of 5 with 3 daughters age 8, 11 and 13. We live in a very beautiful and wild area in the Couserans in the Ariege. Our house is a the end of a small road with beautiful views over mountains. We currently have a small gite next to our house and are in the process of finishing renovating a barn to also rent out to tourists. I am a photographer and organise photo workshops /trekking for young people in schools and local organisations. John occasionally gives trainings on intercultural communication in other parts of France and abroad. We have lived and travelled abroad and are used to meeting people from other cultures and all walks of life. We like meeting new people and getting to know them, and so do our children who are used to engage with guests staying in our gite.