Help with DIY near mountains and beaches with our multilingual family near Roses, Girona, Spain

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  Description

  Hello, we are Johannes and Lidia and we live in Roses. I work in IT and Lidia is working at a Spa. Lidia her son Christian is also living here and loves football.
  
  Our project concerns doing up the old house we live in now as it has a lot of little jobs that really need fixing. Downstairs it's all around the house and the swimming pool that needs a do up. There is painting, cement, wood and waterworks to do. Helping out in the household since we both work is also very welcome. In this sense a travelling couple has our preference. And than there is the garage. Which we'd love to change into a multifunctional space for gymnastics, (aero)yoga and more. As you probably realized the house has two floors.
  
  The top floor is, not always, available as a living space for our workaway guests. Some times its yours, sometimes you share this floor. Here mainly the bathroom needs doing and we'd like to put a new (lightweight) roof on the solarium. There is the living room with TV, two bedrooms, a terrace to relax and sunbath. If not available we have a spare room downstairs. The area has a lot of historical, also Roman and Greek, places to visit, is wonderful for walking, birdwatching, bike rides and off course the beach. Sky diving in the next village and Cadaqués, the place were Dali had his house, is also worth visiting. From the house it's a fifteen minute walk to the beach. We have bikes and paddle boards, a car, two friendly dogs and a cat. We speak Dutch, English, German, French, Catalan and Spanish.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  If you like we can help you with learning Spanish, Catalan and or other languages we speak. Cooking typical Spanish food. Massage. We play music and have some guitars, two Ukuleles, a Cuban Tres. A Tanpura, a small recording set and more... We wouldn't mind to learn some more traditional music from the various cultures. Forestry, informatics in general...

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  Jobs important for this moment are:
  
  Upstairs: Bathroom repairs, which is lifting the bath and replacing the drainage pipes. Putting some new cupboards. Solarium Roof replacement (light weight and not working on top, just wood work and replacing roof panels from the inside of the room.
  
  Downstairs. Swimming pool area needs cement work and some maintenance in general.
  We'd like to turn it into a nice, tranquil, relaxing part of the house. A part of the wall around the house needs repairs, a water drainage needs to be made.
  
  Helping in the house in general would include shopping, washing, cooking, cleaning. Although we eat meat, we love cooking vegetarian.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  Catalan: Fluent
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  Dutch: Fluent
  French: Intermediate

  This 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.
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  Accommodation

  Our accommodation has 2 bedrooms upstairs. Downstairs, next to the swimming pool there is a bedroom with bathroom. We have a washing machine, a dishwasher, sheets, pillows, blankets and WIFI available. Breakfast will be on the table from Eight. There will be Tea coffee, bread, cheese and jams, cereals and various types of milk and more ( like things you like, jus tell us. Lunch is mostly between 1 and 3 and dinner between nine and ten.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Campers can park for a limited time in front of the house due to local rules. We do have a private parking space for one not to big camper.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4-5 hours, 5 days a week (2 days off)