Wunderschönes Landhaus in den Pyrenäen, Frankreich

I stayed with the great Pétureau family for a bit more than 4 weeks. My stay there was simply amazing: I would help them with some house chores at the same time I was learning and improving my french and also getting immersed in the beautiful and rich culture of the Gers department.

The work I did consisted mainly of cleaning the pool,...read more painting the windows, cutting grass, bushes and also collecting fallen branches from the yard. None of it took more than 3/4h a day, even though the day starts early in the morning, which is good because you'll have plenty of free time for the rest of the day to enjoy the region.

The house is amazing, the food was equally great and the work was very satisfying and important because I was helping them to keep the house this beautiful and I would stay active and learn new skills.

M. and Mme. Pétureau were always incredibly helpful and kind, they would take me to gatherings with friends of the family, to other villages around the amazing Gers department and were also a very good company, as well as their grandson Yohan.

In addition to that, M. Pétureau would also help me to read books and watch movies in french, in order to improve my vocabulary, pronunciation and to get rid of accents.

I was lucky enough to get to know several interesting people, with so different backgrounds, to visit several villages and homes in the area, to walk a bit of the Compostela path which passes nearby the family house, and I even got to go to the Jazz in Marciac music festival.

I can't explain the amount of knowledge I earned just by staying there, experiencing the local culture and living for a while with such a nice family.

I had a great time with you all. It was an amazing and unforgettable experience.

Thank you very much for everything M., Mme. Pétureau, Yohan and, of course, Ulysse (their lovely dog).

Je vous remercie pour votre accueil, c'était une éxperience vraiment enrichissante!

I stayed with Guy-Michel and Jacqueline for a bit more than three weeks, and I had an amazing time. The house and garden are beautiful. We (oscar - another workawayer - and I) worked in the morning on different tasks from watering the flowers, preparing the table for dinner/lunch or getting wood for the winter. After lunch we had the entire...read more afternoon for ourselves to do some reading, swimming in the pool, etc. They were also very kind to show us around the area (Auch, Bassoues). Their grandson also took us several times to a nearby village Marciac to enjoy the festival of jazz and showed us several french movies to practise our french. Jacqueline was always helping my french while she learned me the best recipes for making 'chouquettes' or other desserts. Thank you so much!
If you want to learn french like I did, this is the perfect opportunity; they were always willing to help me, improve my mistakes and explain.
In the area are also several other workaway hosts, who are also really great and it was nice that we were able to hang out with the other workawayers and share experiences! Overall, I spent had an unforgettable summer at this place!

We worked with Guy-Michel and we stayed with the family for two weeks. The family is very nice, open-minded and welcoming and we felt home from the first moment on.They are all really friendly and we could learn a lot about the life in France. Although the work was sometimes hard, we ate very well and there was a lot of delicious food. For us it...read more was a great experience.

i spent 6 weeks here and had the best time ever! :) i wish i had stayed longer! Guy-michel and Jacqueline are two of the nicest people I have ever met and treated me as if I was one of their very own grandchildren. They are generous, kind and helped me so much with my french! i read french books nearly everyday with Guy-michel and he even helped...read more me with my accent :) I would highly recommend working away here.
To my surprise, this area has other workaway hosts nearby and as a result i met lots of other amazing people too during my short stay!

They were the perfect hosts :) thank you for everything!

I spent 10 weeks with here from the 01.06.11 until 12.08.11 and I need to say I had a wonderful time with them. They have a beautiful house with a nice garden and a big swimming pool, I would recommend them most highly to anyone considering Workaway. I learned a lot from the family and it was always a pleasure to work for them in the garden or in...read more the house. They are very friendly, very intelligent and always very kind also when I had some questions they where always there to ask, they where helping me as well to improve my french language. Mr. Petureau was so kind that he was reading with me some French books, I really appreciate that, thank you again! Also they were showing me around in the area and we visited a lot of nice places and I meet a lot of other very friendly French and English people. Also they took me with them on holidays, that was cool and very nice!
I made so much nice experience but I can not write all down on the page. But I must say, I would always go back and I can recommend it to other Workaways!
I hope I will see them again maybe in Austria or in France! Thank you for the great time :-)