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Host rating
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Last replied
18 Apr 2024
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Description
We want to share our adventure in Germany with you. We are an Australian/German Couple, who bought an old schloss in North Saxony. We need help with gardening, restoration, building, videography, social media, cooking and cleaning. We also have an online natural lime paint business.
There are many jobs here, building , gardening, we have 5 hectares of land including an ancient orchard.
We have a 20 room house that needs skills like rendering and carpentry, and scraping down the old walls, baroque flooring that requires unskilled work cleaning.
We love working with others, and have worked with many different people over the years. It's our dream to bring our house here alive with new people and stories , and of course we need lots of help to do the many hundreds of things we want to create here. We are situated in a beautiful rural area with lots of nature and forests.
1.5 hours from Leipzig and Dresden, 2.5 hours from Berlin and Prague, all easily accessed by train.
Please come and say hello !
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We have a lifetime experience in business, have worked in construction and built our Paint Company ourselves.
We have many different skills and we are happy to share what we have learnt about restoring houses with integrity.
We are every open, and love to share our lives with others. We speak German and English.
We believe this area of Germany is completely undiscovered, we like to have fun as well as work, we have lots of games and bikes, its a natures lovers paradise. There is a great culture here of community, growing vegetables, sharing the simple things in life. You will meet locals, we have an English Club dinner every week, you can practise English or German and learn about life here in the rural former East Germany.
Help
This year Spring / Summer 2024
We are focusing on
We need a couple or 1 person to help clean a few rooms by washing down the walls, then onto working in our new large vegetable garden,
We are building a large kitchen and organic garden this Spring Summer
There are always lots of different tasks around our place, if you are looking to have a paid position you must be able to invoice according to German requirements for paid work.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: FluentThis 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
We eat healthy tasty food, and expect to provide all the food, we expect you will cook for yourselves, while you are with us.
We have a large table under a huge plane tree and we usually eat out there in the summer.
What else ...
Lots of forest walks, hundreds of walking tracks, and cute villages, also a renaissance town nearby, we are 5 min away from the Elbe River where it is possible to do bike tours along its banks. Its called the Elberadweg
There is train to Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin and Prague 20 min from our house.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have super fast internet- and all work online here
Space for parking camper vans
We have 10 acres here
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (18)
This was our first workaway experience and we wouldn’t even know how to explain the time we had with Bron and Andreas. From the first day we felt at home and included in their family. The first week we shared our time with another incredible Workawayer, Tom. We shared many meals… read more
A joy to have as a workaway, we really hope we see him again here.
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This was our first workaway experience and we wouldn’t even know how to explain the time we had with Bron and Andreas. From the first day we felt at home and included in their family. The first week we shared our time with another incredible Workawayer, Tom. We shared many meals… read more
A joy to have as a workaway, we really hope we see him again here.
Bronwyn, Andreas, Tom and all the people working at that magnificent place made me feel like part of the team, if not family, from the first day on. We connected right from the beginning and it was soon very clear to me that this stay is about… read more
She is a very talented photographer and helped me with images for our Paint Brand.
I highly recommend her, and really hope she comes back again to visit us soon.
He became part of family and we hope he is coming back again very soon
Bronwyn is probably one of the most positive person I ever met !… read more
He is open, friendly and very thoughtful, if he offers to come to your place you should say yes immediately.
He is very good at any task, great company, skilled at everything we asked him to do, plus a great cook.
Cannot recommend him highly enough,… read more
The work that you are doing in your house and with your bussines is incredible.
For me had been a pleasure help you during this days. I been in your place during three weeks but my sensation was like three days, the time was… read more
They are very easy to host, and did a lot of very hard work with us. Cant wait to see them again
She was diligent, polite, very lovely to have in our home, I recommend her highly.
She completed her tasks with enthusiasm and care, we hope she will come back soon.
Oelschau is apparently a little, quiet village in Saxsony, but very far from being boring. Their project is very interesting and it's impossible not being… read more
We had many great exchanges including a 3 course dinner cooked by him and his friend for 17 people, amazing !
We had… read more
She was a hard working and helped with many varied tasks, she helped in our business, in all the tasks she was given, she finished them easily and as asked, she is also an excellent window washer.
Lillian was a perfect part of team here this… read more
Emma has great graphic design skills, Alex was always happy to do any job, and we gave him so dirty ones.
Would recommend this lovely couple to anyone.
