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Heinz-Günter and I, Regina, are a couple who love the outdoors: Cycling, hiking, gardening, watching things grow. We love to be around living things - plants and animals alike.
We both love to spend time with our family especially the young ones.
Heinz worked in insurance but has retired. He loves sports, especially handball. He also likes skiing and football, in addition we go dancing once a week. I love reading and photography.
I grew up on a farm and spent two years in England and Ireland during my studies, working in a beautiful castle park at one time. I'm a trained landscape architect and used to work for a municipality recultivating regulated rivers and brooks and putting them back into their natural state. Nature conservation was also part of my job.
About 13 years ago I took a year off and traveled through South America, staying here and there, wherever I found a job. I've seen incredible landscapes but getting to know the locals was always the most giving experience.
Last but not least, we love to travel. To be able to see beautiful places, meet fascinating people, contribut to whatever drives them and experience how they live and think makes us very grateful. We've met many lovely people willing to let us into their homes and made us feel at home. And every time we came back the richer for all the new insights!
During the last two years we've been travelling through Northern Europe, mostly Sweden. We've been house- and pet-sitting as well as workawaying and had an amazing time exploring these vast landscapes, visiting beautiful places and meeting new, wonderful people. We enjoyed it so much, that we decided to move to Sweden permanently. We've been refurbishing and decorating a lot recently and spend most our time on garden projects, using local material.Interests
BloggingPetsWritingPlant carePhotographySelf developmentNatureOutdoor activitiesLanguagesFarmingCyclingDIY & craftsGardeningHikingDrawing & paintingCooking & foodAnimalsBooksDancingLanguages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Swedish: IntermediateSkills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Art ProjectsBeing an elderly companionSome knowledge of:
GardeningDIY and building projectsCreating/ Cooking family mealsGeneral MaintenanceLife at a FarmstayEco ProjectsHelping around the houseAnimal CareLanguagesMore details about your skills
We're both quite handy with all sorts of manual work and DIY, be it gardening, wallpapering, painting, general maintanance or small scale building and carpentary work. I, Regina, am very keen on art topics while Heinz knows more about sports and used to lead a teenage handball team for a while. We both have experience in looking after pets.
I have quite some knowledge about plants and their healing properties.Age
47 & 64
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But everything could have ended in a troublesome way before their stay even started - They parked their car in a small slope, and it started to roll down... Luckily Heinz managed to get in the car and stop it.… read more
We stayed for two weeks and lived actually in the house the former WorkAwayers had built over the summer: well done, folks! It’s really cute and has the most wonderful view over the Götakanal! Unfortunately it hadn’t any WIFI yet.… read more
Besides having a great time hanging out with them they did an outstanding job here. This place has never been in a better shape than now. Regina and Heinz are… read more
Anna and Bernhard gave us a very warm welcome and let us be part of their family. We soon felt quit at home at the place.
Our accomodation was fantastic – we had a well-equipped, spacious and beautifully decorated holiday home just for us. We had breakfast there on… read more
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But everything could have ended in a troublesome way before their stay even started - They parked their car in a small slope, and it started to roll down... Luckily Heinz managed to get in the car and stop it.… read more
We stayed for two weeks and lived actually in the house the former WorkAwayers had built over the summer: well done, folks! It’s really cute and has the most wonderful view over the Götakanal! Unfortunately it hadn’t any WIFI yet.… read more
Besides having a great time hanging out with them they did an outstanding job here. This place has never been in a better shape than now. Regina and Heinz are… read more
Anna and Bernhard gave us a very warm welcome and let us be part of their family. We soon felt quit at home at the place.
Our accomodation was fantastic – we had a well-equipped, spacious and beautifully decorated holiday home just for us. We had breakfast there on… read more