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Description
We are a family living in the East of Holland, in a beautiful forest area at 3 kilometers from the Loo Palace.
We love fun, relaxing, making music (guitar, piano, violin, drums) & arts. We have 8 horses, with which we can use some help.
Our two kids (our 12 year old son Tibbe and our 7 year old daughter Pommelie) go to school part-time and are being homeschooled. We love for them to make their own choices at a young age and take responsibility for their actions. We do fun projects and try to encourage exploring their passions and interests. Next to that we take the kids along the day, and so they learn from life itself.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
-HAVING FUN Having fun with our horses and kids, and learning from it.
-PARTIME HOMESCHOOLING EXPERIENCE We love to show you how we go about life freely, organically.
-LEARNING DUTCH AND ENGLISH We speak both fluently.
-NATURE HOTSPOT Our house is situated central to many beautiful sites and interesting highlights such as the King's Domain Forest (Kroondomein), the Drenthe Huns (obelisk/stonhenge-like stones from the ice age and the Kröller Möller Museum. Amsterdam is only an hour away, where you will find many great museums, restaurants and nightlife.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
It would be great if you could help us with the daily horse care (feeding & cleaning the stables) and do ground training in a natural way with the young ponies (age 0-3) or take them out for a walk .
Feedings are at 08:00, 13:00, 18:00 and 22:00h. All together it will take you about 1,5 h. Training the horses (haltering, traffic, hoofcare, etc) is not necessary but very welcome. It would be great if you have a driver's licence in order to take the kids to school sometimes or to music lessons. Of course you can use our car.
We will make a schedule together which will suit your agenda as well. You might want to visit a town or go on an adventure yourself.
We will take turns in preparing meals and if you could help with some chores around the house during the week that would be great!
A proactive mentality is nice, though we do like to live a relaxed life too. We like it when things flow naturally, organically.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
German: Intermediate
French: Intermediate
Spanish: Beginner
Japanese: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We would like our kids (and ourselves) to learn other language better. We all speak English, and we would love to learn an other language from you!
Accommodation
You will be staying in our villa, where you will have a nice and cosy large room where you can sleep and spend alone-time when you want to.
What else ...
The rural village of Wenum Wiesel is at 1 kilometer from the city of Apeldoorn (11th largest city in Holland). A busstop is literally in front of our house at 50 meters, taking you to Apeldoorn's central station in 10 minutes. From there you can easily reach places of interest. By car, moving west, within an hour you reach Amsterdam, and moving east you reach Germany in 30 minutes.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
There is an office availible.
Space for parking camper vans
We have a lovely and private place where you can put your camper/van.
Can possibly accept pets
We do have an old dog and a cat, so let's keep in touch about this
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (8)
There was a schedule for the family and workawayers which meant I always knew what was going to happen during the day and what they expected of me, which I was grateful for.
They let me borrow a bike in… read more
The tasks were pretty easy and weren't taking much of my time, my schedule was clear but flexible.
I completly… read more
My tasks were: cleaning the stables every morning, feeding the horses few times a day and some house chores as cleaning, gardening or cooking. During the day I had plenty of time to spend either by myself or with the kids.
I had many opportunity to feel part of the family: I… read more
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There was a schedule for the family and workawayers which meant I always knew what was going to happen during the day and what they expected of me, which I was grateful for.
They let me borrow a bike in… read more
The tasks were pretty easy and weren't taking much of my time, my schedule was clear but flexible.
I completly… read more
My tasks were: cleaning the stables every morning, feeding the horses few times a day and some house chores as cleaning, gardening or cooking. During the day I had plenty of time to spend either by myself or with the kids.
I had many opportunity to feel part of the family: I… read more
With her travel stories she brought… read more
We already miss him. He is one of those people that grows on you.
Towards the kids Ohran was very open, patient and understanding. He played a lot of games and sports with them, laughed and conversed with them in Dutch and English.
Ohran is a hard worker. He helped with taking care of our 7 horses. He is very… read more
They live in a lovely area in the south of the Netherlands, on the suburbs of Apeldoorn.
During my month there I did so many different things, ranging from helping out with the (now 7!) horses, to shooting an entire short movie with the kids!
Tibbe and Pom are lively and wonderful kids. They are both very… read more
I enjoyd a lot to bee with the horses and the kids, also we was always realy free too choose what we want to doo in the day.
It was nice to see for me this relaxt way to work with the horses and lern from Natali. Sadly everybody went ill so we had not that mutch time togehter where everybody was fit.… read more
