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10 May 2022
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Hi!
A very laid back dad late in early thirties with two kids (4 year + one year old). lives in a country house with cats, dogs/lots of chickens + ducks (200/300). loves eating/growing own stuff (including game). Sophie (kids mum) is also around sometimes but doesn’t live in the hoUse. Mathieu is French and sophie is English.
We rent both our house, which our helpers are based around Beuvrequen and another house (a 10 minute drive away in a beach town) out at weekends and for holidays. The mobile home is always for helpers.
We have lots of experience with helpers from all over the world :)
Looking for help ideally from a couple/ couple of friends for 20/25 hours a week Monday-friday. 7h30-9h30 + 16h30-18h30 roughly on days that the children are home (monday/Tuesday sometimes Friday), otherwise hours are flexible. babysitting, cleaning, cooking, feeding/caring for the animals, cutting wood, veggie patch, gardening, small maintenance jobs..
In exchange for your time, we accommodation in our 2 bed mobile home in the middle of nature on our private fishing lake, a 5 minute walk from the house. You are more than welcome to swim or fish here!
At least one of you must have a driving permit to take the children to school/pick up
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
There are beautiful beaches around this area and a lots of ww2 things. Lots of nice places to walk, explore and enjoy nature.
ItS a 20 minute walk to the nearest town, 30 minute bike ride to the beach. Mathieu is french and doesn’t speak much English.
We can teach you about chicken/duck keeping (breeding season) if you’re interested :)
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Help
Général garden/house work, animal care (you’ll learn a lot about ducks!) babysitting, cooling, cleaning
Languages spoken
French: Fluent
English: Beginner
Accommodation
2 bedrooms mobile home which you may share with other helpers at times :)
What else ...
There are lots of lovely typical french towns and beaches to visit around here within walking/biking distance. You’re also welcome to fish. It’s a very quiet natural place to be but also really close to civilisation :)
Unless you love walking a bike or car would be useful to get around, there isn’t much public transport here.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We have a big space to park near the mobile home if you come in your own van
Can possibly accept pets
Pets are no problem at all bearing in mind we have free range chickens which are not for dogs dinner ;)
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Roughly 4 hours a day for accommodation, + half board
Feedback (8)
I stayed with Sophie, Mathieu and the rest of their family for 4 amazing weeks! I learned so many new skills and got to get to know a lot of cool people:) The accommodation and food was great and Sophie always took care of everybodys needs. Eventhough they hunt and eat their own game… read more
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I stayed with Sophie, Mathieu and the rest of their family for 4 amazing weeks! I learned so many new skills and got to get to know a lot of cool people:) The accommodation and food was great and Sophie always took care of everybodys needs. Eventhough they hunt and eat their own game… read more
Completely subtle at times, you would hardly notice she’s there but in the evenings a completely different… read more
I really should have done this sooner as Lilly and Sarah were some of the best helpers we’ve had. A really really lovely couple of people, very interesting to talk to but not too in our face. Always around to help and always willing to do extra. Very motivated, hard working, kind hearted people. Great… read more
Food is indeed never missing :D it was always delicious and athough lilly and I are vegan, they were really considerate about that. We always had our… read more
Sophie and Mathieu carried a much about us. We never got hungry and they gave us very much flexibility about what kind of work we wanted to do. And we had a lot of days off when it was raining or at the weekend.
There are… read more
