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We are a married couple in our early fifties, finding the house a bit to quiet since our children left us to explore the world, 2 of them as workawayers. So we are down to none after raising 4 lovely daughters, over the years we have had exchange students living with us from Hongkong to Lithuania, France and Italy.
A lifelong dream of having a horse made us buy a farm which needs a lot of TLC. We also bought Ducks, 2 heads of cattle, a handfull of sheep, and we already had a couple of goats and chicken.
We are working towards some kind of self-sufficiency.
Mother Carina works for social services tending for the elderly almost full time. Father Jan works full time as a teacher on a local technical school.
Basically we shall be gone most of the day on weekdays. But afternoon and evenings are free for cultural exchange and a load of chores. Travelling in pairs is probably more fun.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Who are the danes, and how does this country work?
Local sight seeing.
If you want to learn danish -go for it!
If you wish to train and improve your english skills.
DIY Tips and tricks are happily shared.
We live on the island of Falster very close to the E45 Motorway (as in one step) in a rural area with space between neighbours, 2,5 kilometers from the sea, less so to the forrest. 5 km from Eskilstrup station with a direct line to Copenhagen, or if you go the other way our local capital Nykøbing Falster.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We have a tonnes of projects that all needs doing, so pending on your skills and desires we are pretty sure we can find something to do. It would be a great help to us if you are not afraid of animals and their muck.
This is all stuff we are doing anyways, so we have no specific requirements for workawayers, whereever you participate we will have more time for something else.
Daily chores:
2 times feeding of animals
Almost daily chores:
Cleaning after animals, and humans.
Project based :
Electrical fence fixing or building. pulling up trees,, cutting down trees. A lot of gardening, A little field work. Carpentry projects, Installing more power outlets and water outlets in the stables. Installing windows. pulling down walls, moving a few inddoor walls, building a bathroom for workawayers. And painting, painting painting.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
German: Beginner
Accommodation
We have 2 spacious bedrooms which each sleeps 2 on the first floor that share a living room. The house currently has one bathroom that we all share. We shall keep the fridge stocked and expect to share at least one meal a day, we both cook, if you are better at it feel free to show us.
We will supply bicycles, for you to get around, we are well situated for hiking and biking, but having a car will give you much more range.
With correct timing we can pick you up from the station when you arrive.
What else ...
Local sights include a crocodile Zoo, a SafariPark, a Medieval Center, museum......
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
Space we have.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (5)
Always delivered what was agreed upon, and then some.
He knocked down walls, worked on fence building, but his masterpiece was a cowshelter where he did most of the work, and must now be considered an experienced screwmachine operator and an intermediate carpenter.
We were very fond of… read more
I immediately felt welcome and comfortable upon arriving. Carina cooks most of the time and I really enjoyed her dishes.
The work is never a slog and I learned so many things here such as the drill arts and the soft… read more
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Always delivered what was agreed upon, and then some.
He knocked down walls, worked on fence building, but his masterpiece was a cowshelter where he did most of the work, and must now be considered an experienced screwmachine operator and an intermediate carpenter.
We were very fond of… read more
I immediately felt welcome and comfortable upon arriving. Carina cooks most of the time and I really enjoyed her dishes.
The work is never a slog and I learned so many things here such as the drill arts and the soft… read more
We spent two wonderful weeks with Jan and Carina. They are very kind and welcoming people who made us discover the island of Falster in the south of Denmark. We lived upstairs in their house. He lives on a very large and beautiful farm with lots of animals. There's a lot to do: clearing brush, painting, building... you can't see the time… read more
It was… read more
