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Workawayers welcome for various projects at our house in Brittany, France

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DISPONIBILIDAD

  2024 

 Estancia mínima:  Al menos una semana

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    Hi. We are Philippa and Allan, a semi-retired British couple who moved from Yorkshire to France 14 years ago. We live in a small village called Kerfourn, near Pontivy in Central Brittany.

    I will be having a small op on 20th June (will be in and out in a day) but would appreciate any help with general chores as will be slightly incapacitated or a couple of weeks and have to take things steady. too

    Ideally looking for a mature couple to help with various projects and possibly some petsitting (4 weeks or thereabouts from mid June onwards. Particular workawayer jobs will be gardening and some exterior painting. We have two shed doors to build and a gate to paint and install. Also general sorting and tidying in our barn. We are hoping to go away around 3rd July for a couple of weeks so we are looking for petsitters for our dog too whilst we are away. Ideally you would have your own transport too.



    We welcome friendly and sociable workawayers. Plenty of opportunities to get out and about and socialise.

    We have hosted workawayers for the past 13 years. It's been a great experience and we love having fun and interesting people to stay. We've met some fab people from all over the globe and have kept in touch with several and have even met up again with them when we've been on our own travels to Australia and New Zealand, oh...and we've also been workawayers ourselves.

    We are both friendly, sociable, fun-loving people and really enjoy the life here, although we are both avid travellers and 'home exchangers' too. Philippa loves acting and runs a drama group and enjoys doing arty-crafty stuff and upcycling furniture. Allan played rugby and canoed competitively for many years and loves watching all kinds of sport. We both enjoy playing cards and some board games. Neither of us smoke and inside the house is strictly no smoking. We enjoy interesting conversation over a glass of wine!

    We are in a village location, which has some basic amenities including a bakery, bar etc.

    We will have our friendly dog at home, so looking for animal lovers and cannot accept people with pet allergies. We ourselves are meat/fish eaters. (We can be reasonably flexible to cater for vegetarian needs but do prefer to eat meals together)

    The area itself is lovely. Beautiful villages and towns to explore, great woodland walks and countryside. Our new home is just 10 minutes to Pontivy, a large town, with many impressive Napoleonic buildings and a fabulous castle. We also enjoy visiting Josselin with its castle right on the canal and its bustling Saturday market.

    Come and have some fun in beautiful central Brittany :-))

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Cuidado de animales
    Cocinar para toda la familia
    Ayuda doméstica
    Mantenimiento general
    Ayuda informática
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Brittany is a great location with lots of heritage and lovely countryside. Lots to do. We often have social events at home or meet with friends locally, enjoy going to music nights, theatre or quiz nights and on a Sunday we enjoy browsing the local 'brocante' events where you never know what treasures you are going to find!

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    We like practically minded workawayers who don't mind getting 'stuck in', can use their own initiative and have a 'Can Do' attitude in helping unsupervised. Enthusiasm more important than experience, as long as you are eager to learn! We always appreciate help with general chores too as we like to see you as members of our family/household so 'mucking in' with the usual things that go along with that. :-) Prefer age 23+

    Tasks will be varied, but may include DIY, help in the house, de-cluttering, cleaning, animal care, gardening, weeding, painting furniture, decorating, general maintenance and repairs etc. There's always lots to sort and various tasks to do, so looking for a practically minded people to help us.

    We speak English at home and whilst we are happy to host workawayers whose native language is not English and who wish to have the opportunity to practice their English language skills, you MUST have a good level of English to begin with. We do speak fluent French too though.

  • Idiomas hablados

    Inglés: Fluido
    Francés: Fluido

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    Comfortable double room, in our spacious house, with bathroom adjacent. (Bathrooms are shared, but we have 5, so no queuing lol)
    We have all the usual stuff like UK TV and Wifi and Amazon Prime. We have a good size garden and live in a village location which has a local bar and shop/bakers. All meals will be provided during your stay.
    We look forward to hearing from you!

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    We are ideally looking for mature, responsible workawayers, ideally aged 23+ who have previous work experience. Sorry we can't host families or people travelling with their own pets.

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Decent wifi

  • Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    There is plenty of parking on site

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    Dos

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    Horas esperadas

    4-5 hours per day, 5 days a week (flexible)

Número de referencia de anfitrión: 812185957478

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