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Vom Workawayer (Romy) für Host
I really enjoyed this first workaway experience at this house. The weather lent itself equally well to small indoor jobs and outdoor missions: repairing the horse fencing, creating stakes, pruning fruit trees, weeding... The house is very pleasant and the surroundings magnificent. I'd love to come back and help this little community of neighbors
… read more with other tasks, especially Isa who's developing the vegetable garden. Connie has had a thousand lives and it's rewarding to grow alongside her and meet her loved ones. Thank you for this experience 🙏
Vom Workawayer (Emilia) für Host
It was great time with Connie. She is perfect host, happy to share with you. You can improve your language skills, she is always patient and eager to answer all your questions. It is also nice to spend free time with her. Thank you for our last hike!
I also worked with Iza who is taking care about the horses. It was great to ride and spend time
… read more with her.
With both of them you can learn a lot and have a perfect time. They are also happy to help with planning your trips!
Thank you! It was great to meet you, your family and happy animals!
Hi Yannick and Alex,
it was a great pleasure to have you around. You were a great team and did an amazingly efficient job on window shades and frames, mowing, weeding and much more. Your respectful and friendly ways made things very easy.
I wish you tons of luck for the future. You are welcome any time !
Connie was a superb, very pleasant and friendly host.
The spots were organized and clear.
With a peaceful bond
Thank you so much
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Vom Workawayer (Romy) für Host
I really enjoyed this first workaway experience at this house. The weather lent itself equally well to small indoor jobs and outdoor missions: repairing the horse fencing, creating stakes, pruning fruit trees, weeding... The house is very pleasant and the surroundings magnificent. I'd love to come back and help this little community of neighbors
… read more with other tasks, especially Isa who's developing the vegetable garden. Connie has had a thousand lives and it's rewarding to grow alongside her and meet her loved ones. Thank you for this experience 🙏
Vom Workawayer (Emilia) für Host
It was great time with Connie. She is perfect host, happy to share with you. You can improve your language skills, she is always patient and eager to answer all your questions. It is also nice to spend free time with her. Thank you for our last hike!
I also worked with Iza who is taking care about the horses. It was great to ride and spend time
… read more with her.
With both of them you can learn a lot and have a perfect time. They are also happy to help with planning your trips!
Thank you! It was great to meet you, your family and happy animals!
Hi Yannick and Alex,
it was a great pleasure to have you around. You were a great team and did an amazingly efficient job on window shades and frames, mowing, weeding and much more. Your respectful and friendly ways made things very easy.
I wish you tons of luck for the future. You are welcome any time !
Connie was a superb, very pleasant and friendly host.
The spots were organized and clear.
With a peaceful bond
Thank you so much
Vom Workawayer (Gabija) für Host
I have stayed with Connie at her beautiful place in Ariege for almost a month in August 2021... and let me tell you it was one of the most welcoming and wonderful experiences. Connie, Emmily, Colette, Isabelle and everyone else were such interesting people to get to know, and hopefully we will get to see each other again very soon! Although the
… read more place seems a bit remote from the first glance, I would suggest you to not get scared by that fact - it felt busy and exciting with people coming and going all the time. The food requires a separate mentioning because it was just unreal, the abundance of healthy nutritious meals with the addition of a good company has made this place even better. Connie is understanding, friendly and versatile - although it was my first proper Workaway experience and I understood where I can still upgrade my skills in the future - I think there is always something to do in this place no matter what your skills are!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Gabija)
Gabja was a great enrichment in our place. She is a very friendly person and helped most efficiently wherever she could. She is not only very educated but also good with her hands and won't shy away from new challenges. I am really missing our interesting discussions. Hope to see you soon again, Gabi!
Vom Host für Workawayer (Kade & JIA JIA)
It was just great to have Xandra and Kade with us. They are so lovely and interesting people ! They both get immediately the picture with any work at hand and are always helpful with lots of skills. We really enjoyed their company. Marshmallow, their dog, is extremely friendly and behaved so nicely with our cats and dogs equally.
Can't wait to see
… read more you coming back guys!
Vom Workawayer (Kade & JIA JIA) für Host
It's been absolutely amazing to stay with Connie! Couldn't recommend it more.. The food, the atmosphere, the garden, the area.. It's all perfect.
If you love nature, gardening, great food, lovely people and animals this the place to be.
It's been so nice to have inspiring dinner conversations, learning about fruits and vegetables and seeing how
… read more you can be more self sufficient.
- so please don't stay here, so we can come back! ;] -Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Carlos & Angela )
Hello Angela and Carlos, it was great to have you with us. You did a great job helping build the new apartment, making applejuice and lots of other things. Not only did you bring a lot of skills but you were also very attentive to what needed to be done.
We will never forget our great Belote evenings :-). I wish you lots of luck! Hope to see you
… read more soon again.
Vom Workawayer (Carlos & Angela ) für Host
We had a great experience at Connie´s place. We spent a month there and we felt warmly welcomed since the first moment. In here you will meet very nice and interesting people and if you want you will improve your language skills (French, English and German) since they are all the time willing to help you in this regard. Also we ate a lot of very
… read more good tasting organic food, and felt very good at all times. Thank you guys, hoping to see you back again in the close future.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Marc-Antoine) für Host
Connie's house is as beautiful as you can see on the pictures. She welcomed me for over two weeks, and I enjoyed very much my time there. Beautiful horses, I tried many German food specialities, I was here also for Christmas and we prepared amazing biscuits. --text redacted-- Emmily is her daughter, the few times she was at home, we got really
… read more good time and she is a master piece for playing piano, I also got nice time with Inge (her grandma) and Colette (another grandma) that is a real character, and I mean this in a very affectionate way. Lot of kisses to all of you. I am not 100% sure about my next destinations but if I pass by Ariège again I will find a way visit you.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Marc-Antoine)
Marc-Antoine spent two weeks with us and did some very efficient work. He sees things to be done by himself and did an amazing job cleaning up inside and outside the house. He is very affectionate and smpathetic. We wish him the best of luck for his further travels.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Adam)
Hello Adam, please excuse this very, very late thank you-note for your great help here. It was so nice to have you with us. You’re a hell of a worker, always willing to jump in, taking also initiatives when needed. You and Kyle built up quite a team and did so much for this place. It was a great time with you also in our little community, where
… read more your creative, playful and positive presence was very much appreciated. You are welcome at any time.
Vom Workawayer (Adam) für Host
Amazing! For a month I stayed with this wonderful tribe and will cherish it always!
Connie, Jerome and all create the most hospitable and warming time you can ask for in Ariège. A hamlet based on the hill with the best, panoramic view in the region this family have created a sweet spot to discover. Depending on the time of year you can stay in
… read more the comfy attic, the beast of a camping van or the land in your tent is perfect enough.
The work atmosphere is laid back and easily enjoyable. The focus of my stay was mostly looking after the orchard, their seven heart warming horses, weeding and helping Jerome update his leather workshops website.
I spent most of my time either working, making my way from beautiful people to person or filling myself with THE BEST food! The scale and quality I was given made me wonder if my help was even worth it...not enough to stop!
This was by far the most comfortable place I've found via Workaway with the best company! I plan to come back here again and again! Thank you!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Kyle)
With things in the garden and all the rest going at a more quiet pace now, I am finally taking some time to write a note to thank you, Kyle for your great work and lovely presence here. It was just a pleasure to have you with us. Your kind and optimistic ways were such a great addition to the community. You worked hard and efficiently, were always
… read more there when needed and always with a smile and in good humor. You and Adam built up quite a team and did so much for this place. I don’t know how much French you finally picked up but you tried hard and we are still remembering with joy your take on “lave-vaisselle” (since then everybody calls the dishwasher "love vessel"). Should you ever hop around to Europe again, please be sure to plan in some time with us.
Vom Workawayer (Kyle) für Host
I've been travelling for a while now and have always done workaway through-out my time. BY FAR, this is the best place i have been to. The things i've learnt and written down will stay with me forever. I was welcomed straight away with open arms and shown nothing but love. I'll never forget picking cherries and looking up to the Pyrenees on such a
… read more clear sky day or every night singing and dancing along with Connie & Emmily playing piano. Jerome, what a man! Always happy and up for a yarn and didn't mind explaining things to you, it was great to know I was doing a job for "this" reason. To EVERYONE, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for everything.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (lschneller)
Hello Laurent, thank you for your kind words and sorry for this really late reply. As things are a little more quiet now, it’s easier to take time for writing a note to you, which is important though. As this is kind of proof of our esteem for you and the great help you offered us, be it in the garden, in the woods around the house or on the
… read more computer referencing Jérôme’s Website.
Without making much fuzz, you did an amazing job in many different ways and it was great to have you around. Your quiet and efficient ways made our days much easier and it was a pleasure to have you around. It would be really great if you could come again this year.
Vom Workawayer (lschneller) für Host
I spent 3 weeks in Ariège and I had a delicious new experience working for this project. All family members are really taking a good care of volunteers with much experience and patience and they are really engaged for a better world. The food is local and organic, it is possible to taste unique things cooked with fresh vegetables from the garden
… read more or local and organic food. Connie is a great cook, she even knows how to cook snails we collected in the garden(you are not forced to eat them, but I finally tried and found them good!)My tasks mostly involved gardening but I had occasion to look at the bees with Jérôme, at the website and at the saddlery, which is probably a unique spot of this kind in the Workaway world. If you like horses, you will be delighted to be there, as you can take care of them and have rides with them if you are interested. I also had occasions to go out at a famous market in the region and some other spots with Connie and Emmily. Just one thing, you have to love the countryside, as this place is probably the most remote I've been to in France! But the landscape is majestic!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Millie) für Host
We spent three weeks here and had a fantastic time learning about all things to do with the garden, animals, food and the area.
Our work mainly consisted of gardening and help with horses, doing fences, bees and more odd jobs. We stayed in a tent which was perfect for us, allowing us and them some space and privacy but the option to stay in the
… read more attic was available to us.
Connie, Jerome and the rest of the family made our stay so easy and they were very welcoming. All meals were delicious and catered for throughout. Connie was superb at including us in her daily activities and took us dancing, hiking and to the market. The market was amazing and we went every Sunday, looking at all the local artisans and food produce.
The atmosphere was laid back and we were free to go and do things whenever we felt like it with the aid of bicycles and hitch hiking! The location was unbelievable with the local village a 20 minute cycle away and other villages well within reach.
It was a really authentic experience and there was an endless supply of food, music and immersion into local life.
Thank you for a really fab first workaway experience!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Tímea & Daniel)
Hello Timi and Dani,
it was so great to have you with us! You did an amazing job during your stay and it was always a pleasure to have you around. The both of you are full of capabilities of different kinds and you are quick to understand and learn new things. Dani did an amazing job on our cars and especially Emmily is so greatful! It was a great
… read more relief that you are able work on things on your own. While Dani was rapidly improving his English, Timi did an amazing job as a simultaneous interpreter! It was obvious that you both are experienced in using your hands. Your easy going ways made daily work a pleasure but also the time spent with you apart from work - e.g. around the table during meals or playing music - was great and enriching.
I hope you found great places meanwhile and are having a great time in Spain. But if you decide to cross the Pyrenees again, you are welcome back any time!
Vom Workawayer (Tímea & Daniel) für Host
This was our first workaway experience and it was amazing! We were staying there five wonderful weeks with lovely, interesting people. We are happy that we could get to know them. Furthermore the area and the view from their home are so beautiful, so magnifique. :)
We had lots of different works during our stay. We have helped them with picking
… read more the apples and making apple juice. We have spent time in the vegetable garden. We have made wood boards for the property line and hanged out. In addition we have cut down dead trees from their forest for winter. We have helped with painting the outdoor furnitures, cleaning the garden lake and building fences. So there are lots of things to do but we always had fun during the works.
As for the free time we have got never bored. There are lots of opportunity to do. We rode horses in the nature and we were invited for different programs too, for their concert, for cinema and for a weekend in the beautiful mountains, etc. We were traveling with our bus so we could drive in the nearby villages and towns but we could borrow their bicycle too. We have tasted the fondue and lots of different cheese with wine during our stay. Furthermore we always had delicous, healthy meal for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner. Everything was great.
We had a really good time. Thanks so much Connie, Emmily and Jerome for everything! This is a very good place for those who love the nature and want to get to know this fantastic area.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Caroline) für Host
I absolutly agree with Isabella but I dont write so much because my english is so terrible. Thank you Connie, Jerome and Emily for all the knowledge about herbs, vegetables, gardening, horses and bees. About discovering the pyrenees mountain and the fantastic beautiful landscape of the ariege. Thank you for yummi food kefir and goat cheese. For
… read more the nice music and the nice people of your family sourounded us.Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Caroline)
Caroline was a great help in every respect.
She was always ready to jump in and provided precious help in gardening, horse care and many more things. She is very reliable, easygoing and gentle and was a real gain to our little community. We wish her all the best for her further projects.
Vom Workawayer (Isabella) für Host
I had a wonderful 2 weeks at this farm. Connie, Emmily and Jerome were fantastic and welcomed Caroline and I into there lives. They are all active and interesting people - from rock climbing to Lindy Hop to well-rounded musicians - so it was a pleasure getting to know them.
The work was mainly in one of their gardens. We spent time weeding and
… read more covering the ground with wood chips (they do a little permaculture) or harvesting food for dinner :). However, we also helped a lot with the horses, cleaning their hooves, changing their pastures, and setting up new fences. We even got to ride them! Somedays we also helped with the bees or the pond or buying things in close by towns. The work was never too strenuous and only about 4 hours a day with the weekends off. Work usually started at around 9 or 8:30 in the morning and ended before lunch.
Beaware however that this is not a farm! The title is a bit misleading; it is only a family garden and property and they harvest food for their family. I was a bit confused when I first came because I expected an actual farm, but it ended up to be wonderful anyways so it didn't matter ;)
Lunch and dinner were eaten with the family overlooking the beautiful landscape sitting on the patio - weather permitting - while everyone ate breakfast when they were ready before work for the day. There was so much delicious wine and cheese and local meat so you will not be disappointed (they accommodate vegetarians too). We slept in tents outside fitted with comfortable mattresses, which was perfect for the summer weather. However, when it was too cold to windy we slept in the attic above the house. Otherwise, we were welcome to use the living room and decks/patio whenever we wanted - and also the piano if you play it :) The house and property is very beautiful and I really enjoyed spending time there in my free time too, it felt like vacation there.
The highlights of the trip were the many places we got to visit in the Ariege. Whenever Connie or Emmily had an event and space to take us, Caroline and I could come with them. This was amazing because we ended up seeing so many places in this beautiful region. We went to St. Giron for the music festival, Palmiers, Foix, and Montbrun for the amazing market just to name a few. Getting around if you don't have a car is a bit difficult, however you can also use the bikes they offered us to see the area close by ( like Carla Bayle a cute little arist town only 20 mins away on bike) and there are some spectacular roads to bike on overlooking the valley. With a car you would be a lot more independent to visit the area and drive into the mountains, but Caroline and I were really lucky that they brought us so many places - or you can always hitch hike which is really safe here - so either way you'll be fine! Getting to know the region is a must though - the people are so friendly here and there are a surprising amount of alternative people too!
I had a really nice time here and would recommend this workaway to anyone considering - you'll not be dissappointed!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Isabella)
Thank you Isabella for your precious help.
It was a real pleasure to have you with us. Your easy going and positive ways are so refreshing and were appreciated by everyone.
Your readiness to learn new things and to tackle new challenges is remarquable. Even quite physical work was no problem for you. We wish you all the best for the rest of your
… read more travel/hiking. And if you should ever like to stop by again, you are more than welcome!Wir haben festgestellt, dass es in deinem Profil weniger als 3 Fotos gibt. Für das neue Gastgeberprofil-Layout empfehlen wir dir unbedingt, mehr als 3 Fotos zu haben, damit sich dein Profil optisch hervorhebt.
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