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Land: Frankreich

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Zuletzt online: 08.02.2012

Beschreibung

*** Now looking for helpers in March ***

Bonjour!

We are Dalila (french), Pete (english), Emilie (3 years old) and Sidney (born in august 2011). Our place is an old château set in 29 acres of meadow, in the Pyrénées mountains, 1h30 south of Toulouse.

We've finished renovating the interior of the château in 2009, and with sustainability in mind, installed solar panels for hot water, photovoltaic panels for electricity, rain water collection, composting. We're using our own wood for cooking and heating in the winter; and using fruits and vegs from our garden in the summer months.

We're now onto our next projects of renovating the outbuildings, landscaping the garden and generally maintaining the grounds of the property.

We are looking for enthusiastic, energetic people who enjoy physical work, being outdoors, who show initiative and are fairly independant, as we both work from a home office and looking after our little ones keeps us busy!
Experience of using chainsaw and power tools is necessary!

The help we need includes:
- chainsaw, cut and split wood for heating next winter
- tidy the grounds (weeding, strimming etc)
- cut and clear out dead trees across the property
- render and joint newly built stone walls
- prepare our veg patch for planting
- ongoing building work to renovate the outbuilding (windows, put up beams for flooring, etc.)
- spring clean the house (windows, chandeliers, etc)

Region

Europe

Arten von Arbeit

General Maintenance,
Building,
Gardening

Arbeit

We offer food & accomodation, in fantastic surroundings, in exchange for 26h help per week. The bedrooms are spacious, each with their own bathroom/washroom. The food is home-cooked with local produces (fresh eggs and cheese made 500m from our house, veal and beef from farmer down the road, honey from nearby villages, etc), fruits and vegetables we grow from our garden, home-made jams and pickles etc. As you'll live as part of our family, we expect you to participe in the daily light cleaning and washing up.

We have wi-fi internet, free phone calls to landlines internationally, can lend you a laptop to check emails/internet and offer bicycles to get around.

We are situated in a hamlet; 10 minutes away from St Girons, the main local town, which has many shops, cafés and a great traditional farmer's market every saturday.
In your spare time, you can enjoy the many walks around our place, stunning mountain views, biking, gliding, climbing, fishing, horse riding, bird watching, going to village fetes, vide-greniers, etc.

We hope to meet you very soon,
A bientot!

gesprochene Sprachen

English, Francais, a little German

Unterkunft

2 double bedrooms in the Château, each with a bathroom/washroom

My Photo Album

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Mountain views
Our family
Our kitchen
Fruit and veg produce from our garden
Host ref number: 6387765174b9

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