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In the middle of the island Gotland in the middle of Baltic is our home. Up until the 60’s it was run as a small farm, we would love for it to return to just that. However, at the moment we are just trying to restore the main house and the farm buildings with respect for the traditional methods, materials and of course the environment.
Fole, our parish, is an active part of Gotland were people live all year round. It is 16 km from the medieval town of Visby, part of the world heritage. And the sea is never far away, you can go for a swim, either on white beaches or from cliffs diving directly into the sea. Gotland is the perfect island for tourism. You are never far from the sea, an old monument or beautiful nature. In the summer there are plenty of pitoresque cafés where you can enjoy a typical Swedish fika. (google it!)
We are a husband and wife with two kids (8 and 10 years old), one dog, one cat, 10 hens and 1 cock. We like outings, good food, a glass of wine (not the kids 😊) and we love our friends and family. We thrive when the house is full and firmly believe “the more the merrier”.
Kjell – pappa in the house – is an engineer. Fanny – mamma – works with education and sustainable development.
Right now the kids are very into their sports, gymnastics, climbing, skate board, biking and basketball. It would be awesome if you have some experience and could help out with some training!
Types of help and learning opportunities
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
When hanging out with us you will learn about the realities of a family in Sweden with school children. Maybe you will want to help us make cinnamon buns, go for a long walk in the close surroundings or tag along for skateboard training? We try to find the extraordinary in everyday life, enjoying the tulips in spring and the fiery colours of fall, please join us! 😊
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We need help with our old farm buildings, which includes things like restoring windows and alot of painting, You do not have to have any long experience. But you need to be a bit handy and able to work without supervision.
We would also love help with the garden and every year we need to fill our wood storage.
You will probaly be asked to work with things that will make you break a sweat from time to time.
We can provide you with appropriate clothes in the sizes S-L if necessary.
Most of the time you will be able to decide on your own when you put in your hours. But if larger things are taking place we might need help for a full couple of days. Normally we would expect you to work 4-5 hours 5 days a week.
It is often the interest and the experience of the workawayer that determine what he/she helps us with. Some examples of things we would love to be helped with now:
Painting jobs on small surfaces - attention to detail required
Painting of roof and facade of the house
Creating and new raspberry field and planting clematis
Renovating window lining and skirting boards
Wood storage
Plaster a part of the facade
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Swedish: 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
Staying with us you will have a room in the same house that we live in. We all share the same bathroom and kitchen. Your room is furnished with a bed that could fit two persons if you really like each other. Otherwise an extra guest bed could fit in the room too. You can close the doors to the room, but not lock them.
During your stay we consider you a part of our family with the pros and cons! We will expect that you help out with the normal stuff that has to be done in a household. Such as, cooking from time to time, the dishes, cleaning the table and things like that. To be clear, we do not run a bed and breakfast – we are just a family.
We are not vegetarians, but we do not mind if you are. If you are a vegetarian you would have to be a bit more engaged in planning and cooking dinners. We enjoy veggeis and do not mind having them every day - but we need help with inspiration and ideas.
What else ...
From our house it is 3 km to the closest bus stop. We will lend you a bicycle so you can move around a bit more freely. If you feel for it it is absolutely possible to go by bike to the sea or to Visby, maybe just not twice in a day.
Close to home there are several ancient remains, at least three medieval churches and nice walks through forests and cultivated land. There is also, in the parish next to ours, an abandoned limestone quarry that now provide for a giant pool with turquoise water. If you like fishing we will lend you our rods.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
The size of the campervan is no problem.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (6)
I spent 2 weeks in this happy family and it went too fast ! I wish I would have had more time with them and to visit this beautiful island.
I mainly worked on scraping carefully the paint on wooden door frames with beautiful moldings (if it is the proper English… read more
My job was to prepare wooden windows outlines (not sure of the english terms...), take of the paint and the nails that were planted in. It was a nice job, not too hard but… read more
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I spent 2 weeks in this happy family and it went too fast ! I wish I would have had more time with them and to visit this beautiful island.
I mainly worked on scraping carefully the paint on wooden door frames with beautiful moldings (if it is the proper English… read more
My job was to prepare wooden windows outlines (not sure of the english terms...), take of the paint and the nails that were planted in. It was a nice job, not too hard but… read more
I stayed at their place for 1 month. My works are cleaning up in the house and painting some steel towers. They are not hard or difficult jobs and I enjoyed them!
Fanny and Kjell are kind and flexible persons. When I asked some questions they always… read more
All 4 of them are very open minded, kind and caring, interested in other cultures and I had great conversations and laughs with them. They have answered all my questions patiently and helped me to improve my Swedish… read more
