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80 %
Last replied
29 Apr 2025
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7
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Description
In London I was a freelance journalist and author. Anna and I abandoned that life for the adventure of rescuing a very large, dilapidated historic house. After 17 years, we have achieved a lot, but there is so much left to do. Building; landscaping, developing a garden. Our business is in the broad category of hospitality. Not a hotel, not a B&B, a family house with guests. Our main business is hosting groups. Workshops, occasional weddings, family or friends reunions, classical, jazz and folk concerts. Small events over a weekend for 10 people, or sometimes a wedding for a 100. We have an annual tango week and a rugby festival. So, a diverse mix of events. All while keeping it feeling small and family orientated and not losing sight of why we came here.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
we are a British-Polish family, and speak both languages. We are well known locally for classical music concerts - we have an excellent piano in a beautiful seventeenth century room - and our building might be the most historically important private one for many miles around. It is a lovely peaceful place.
Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Help
So now we're heading for winter. Not much work to be done outdoors. We are looking for someone who can sew. Lots of curtains or blinds to make and hang. We have a good machine and lots of fabric.
We are rescuing a very large house that dates from the Middle Ages We also have seven huge barns. We have too many projects, some are grunt work, some are creative, some are both. Like, how do we turn our granary barn into a glamping spaces? How do we build our natural swimming pool? We have a huge party barn. How can we decorate it? It already has a mud floor, but that needs extending and improving, if you want to know how to make a traditional mud floor, I can show you!
We run a pension and events, Weddings, concerts,a rugby festival. In Poland, but right on the Czech border. Me, I'm Jim, my wife, Anna, she's the boss, 6 kids, they all have opinions, and general chaos. We look after several hectares of land too, and it is all slightly too much for us. People often say, "So much potential." We want to realise it! Too many ideas, not enough time.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Polish: Fluent
Wallon: Fluent
Japanese: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
I'd like to refresh my Japanese. And my French. Both were fluent, but are rusty nowadays
Accommodation
Our best rooms are reserved for paying guests, especially in summer. We can set you up in a neighbouring apartment, or you can have a whole barn to yourself if you prefer that, there is space to put tents up in there. Eat with us, or cook for yourself, you can choose.
What else ...
We are in the sticks, a small village surrounded by farms, 20 km from a town called Nysa, easily accessible from Wroclaw, Warsaw, Krakow by train or bus. On the Czech side, about 6 km from us, there's a station. You can get there from Prague or Vienna in about 6 hours. Ideal cycling region, there's wild swimming in quarries, hiking, plenty of history.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
we have broadband optical fibre internet
Space for parking camper vans
We can provide electricity and we have showers and toilets for you too, and laundary facilities
Can possibly accept pets
Well behaved dogs, provided they do not attack our chickens and geese!
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (3)
They stayed for two weeks and were really great. Miguel did a huge job for me, he cleaned out a very large barn. Veronica went through a large pile of antique prints and pictures, cleaned the frames and sorted them into… read more
It was a pleasure to spend a few weeks in the perfect middle of nowhere, where rugby players and gooses coexist. This big and amazing place in Poland, with overflowing potential is ideal for explorers with curiosity.
This family is a very beautiful host, kind, loving, interesting… read more
I can't recommend her highly enough to other Workaway hosts. She came for two weeks to help us with a busy part of our summer - The Piotrowice Nyskie International Rugby Festival. She had the job of getting a barn ready for people to sleep in and another for the big party. She was good company, cheerful, worked sooo hard, got on… read more
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They stayed for two weeks and were really great. Miguel did a huge job for me, he cleaned out a very large barn. Veronica went through a large pile of antique prints and pictures, cleaned the frames and sorted them into… read more
It was a pleasure to spend a few weeks in the perfect middle of nowhere, where rugby players and gooses coexist. This big and amazing place in Poland, with overflowing potential is ideal for explorers with curiosity.
This family is a very beautiful host, kind, loving, interesting… read more
I can't recommend her highly enough to other Workaway hosts. She came for two weeks to help us with a busy part of our summer - The Piotrowice Nyskie International Rugby Festival. She had the job of getting a barn ready for people to sleep in and another for the big party. She was good company, cheerful, worked sooo hard, got on… read more
We needn't have worried, she was great. She stayed about a month, which is more than enough to get to know if you like someone, and we liked her.
She was willing to do anything - even messy jobs. We gave the task of filling in the cracks in the floorboards of a barn with putty… read more
