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30 Oct 2023
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Description
We are Vanessa, Stefan and daughter Elisa since August 2020 and Baby Hannah since 2022 :) We live in the Alpbach valley and have an approximately 1.500sqm garden and, of course, lots of ideas what to do with it – e.g. building terraces, expand our vegetable garden, build (natural) fences, plant trees, … and there are many maintenance tasks to do, like to water the garden, cut the grass or get rid of the weed. For bad weather there are also some indoor tasks to be done like renovating rooms, painting, maybe some woodwork etc. – we can be creative there. We also have a dog who loves to be walked.
Stefan is working full time 5 days a week at the moment and Vanessa is on parental leave, so maybe you can reserve some of your work time for the weekend or the evening ;) We also expect from you, that you help us with our household duties like vacuum cleaning, washing the dishes and cleaning stuff.
We have been on our little workaway experience late winter/early spring 2018 and fell in love with the concept so we want to give the possibility to other workawayers as well!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We have been passionate swing dancers (before the baby, nowadays we do some dancing) so we can learn you some basic steps with us. In addition, we will invite you to most of our social activities and you can decide if you want to join us or not, it is up to you and either way no problem. Of course we will make some excursions together :)
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Always to do:
Help with garden chores, household tasks and taking care of our dog and maybe babysitting!
building, processing firewood, painting, cleaning and repairing, renovating the house.
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Projects for 2023:
painting our new balcony and carport
reorganize our garden
get rid of some old trees and plant new ones
renovate our old flat - maybe sandpaper and repaint the floors, cleaning
cleaning and reorganizing our stuff from the cellar
sanding old windows and repainting them
sanding an old wooden ceiling
renovate the wooden outer walls from our house
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
You get a separate bedroom somewhere in the house and we can share the bathroom, maybe if it's possible you get your own. We prepare everything for you and we like you to do the same when you leave - so spare some time for cleaning your room(s) at the end.
All meals can be prepared and eaten together with us in the main kitchen - but since we are all independent people this isn't a must. We buy all food and drinks of course.
What else ...
The ideal workaway guest for us would be a relaxed and child friendly person with an interest and experience in baby sitting / child caring, renovating and dogs.
Skills in carpentry, painting and gardening are very welcome.
Volunteers can borrow our stuff in their freetime. We have bicycles, a tent and sleeping bags, some sports gear… There are many opportunities like swimming, trekking, bicycling or relaxing in the nature during summer, or skiing, snowboarding, sledging and many more during winter. A small creek is 5min away from us that is nice to go to and barbecue. The next bigger town (Innsbruck) is 40km away; you can easily go there by train; a super market and some bars and restaurants are in walking distance.
Please note that we are not a company or institution with insurance for volunteers. Although we will of course make every precaution to prevent accidents, but we recommend you to buy a travel insurance that covers manual work.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have an 80MBit unlimited Broadband Internet Connection and an office room with a desk / office chair and an additional screen and some IT parts we can let to our guests.
Space for parking camper vans
No campervan or motorhome was ever too big in our history of hosting :)
Can possibly accept pets
One dog travelling with you should be fine - but we have to figure out how it works with our dog ;)
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (4)
We enjoyed the time immensely, had very nice evenings, delicious food and great conversations! We felt very welcome and comfortable from the very first minute, which made it all the sadder that we couldn't stay longer.
It was an incredibly wonderful time, we are very much looking… read more
They did a great job on every task we asked them… read more
When they came to our place, it just felt, as we have known each other for a very long time. We talked about everything and the best of it, it was always fun… read more
They are kind, attentive, we had a lot of fun… read more
We have been a little bit more than a week together at our home and they were really enthusiastic when we worked together - no… read more
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We enjoyed the time immensely, had very nice evenings, delicious food and great conversations! We felt very welcome and comfortable from the very first minute, which made it all the sadder that we couldn't stay longer.
It was an incredibly wonderful time, we are very much looking… read more
They did a great job on every task we asked them… read more
When they came to our place, it just felt, as we have known each other for a very long time. We talked about everything and the best of it, it was always fun… read more
They are kind, attentive, we had a lot of fun… read more
We have been a little bit more than a week together at our home and they were really enthusiastic when we worked together - no… read more
We ate almost every evening together and we enjoyed their company a lot! They kept the house clean… read more
