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We are a family with two teenager kids. Our house is rather big and has a nice garden surounding it. We live in Lyss, which is 17 train min away from Bern.(Unesco WH)
We need someone to help for wall painting, cooking, garden house building and gardening. No baby sitting. We can also use mathematical skills on a bachelor level.
We like to exchange with foreigners, as we have less time to travel now.
Our garden pool needs an innovation to gain rainwater and circulate. Any engeneering brain please contact us.
Are you a carpenter? We need benches for our sauna.
Are you familiar with sun collectors(water), we have one unplugged standing arround.
There are a few more projects....
And we have table tennis, a mountain hut and a sailing yacht!
one more thing:
We do not have a car. As you want to explore Switzerland a bit by yourself, consider 2 options:
cheep tickets through europe and even Switzerland, check here:
trainline (dot) com
a half fare pass for public transport (for neighbor countries of Switzerland only) Check here:
swiss-pass.ch/de/swiss-half-fare-card-halbtax/
(Here I found, that the half fare pass for trains, busses and boats is CHF33.- for two month.
The train ticket from the airport to us and back is 120.- So there you save 60.- already. 1 CHF = 1 € = 1 US$ more or less)
Je ne veux pas tout traduire, mais une chose pour les francophones: on aimait avoir quelqun(e) dans la maison pour faire parler nos enfants, parce que francaise a l'ecole c'est pas facile.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live in the center of Switzerland.
There is Berne close by, the mountains and some beautiful lakes to discover.
From here everything is rather close to get to.
Help
please no smokers. we can use gifted handworkers aswell as willing to learn travellers. stucco, wood walling, tree cutting,
painting, plumbing...
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
My kids need some experience in french. Natural learning would help a lot ifor school. Our spanish is still poor. so an effort could be done.
Accommodation
We provide a room. Meals at the fam table.
What else ...
we live next to the train station.
train to Berne (Unesco) 17 min
train to lake of Biel 7 min
train to the swiss alps 2h
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
studio with wlan.
Space for parking camper vans
we had a caravan parked here. it was 7 m long.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
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So there he goes, ready for new projects, somewhere in the world.
So I wish him good luck, expecting… read more
Long story: Tom is one of the nicest and warmest people I know (and I'm from a Mediterranean country). The rest of the family are less outgoing but still pleasant people to spend time with.
The house is fantastic, with a huge, welcoming and bright living room, and a small… read more
I learned some new carpentry skills and some great Swiss recipes.
Most of all I enjoyed listening to thom and Ursina playing piano/singing and playing brändi dog with… read more
She devellopped great carpenter skills and helped me a lot on my math problems.
She skis faster than most swiss and cant still play "bridge over troubled… read more
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So there he goes, ready for new projects, somewhere in the world.
So I wish him good luck, expecting… read more
Long story: Tom is one of the nicest and warmest people I know (and I'm from a Mediterranean country). The rest of the family are less outgoing but still pleasant people to spend time with.
The house is fantastic, with a huge, welcoming and bright living room, and a small… read more
I learned some new carpentry skills and some great Swiss recipes.
Most of all I enjoyed listening to thom and Ursina playing piano/singing and playing brändi dog with… read more
She devellopped great carpenter skills and helped me a lot on my math problems.
She skis faster than most swiss and cant still play "bridge over troubled… read more
We had a great time, maybe again later this year...
Being with them has been a precious adventure.
Thanks for everything, see you soon
If they do things, these things are done precisely and perfectly.
Dream workawayers!!!! Always welcome.
When I have chose to do a workaway experience I could have never imagined that it would have been so good.
Ester, Tom, Urzina and Valentine are very kind person and each of them have a lots of qualities!
When I decided to leave my country to try this new adventure I was a little scared because I have heard about… read more
He helped us in all kind of things: electrical wiring, plasterind(dry walling) painting, COOKING, and messanger of the italian culture.
Workaway lost him now, as he found his first job as an engineer.
We wish him good… read more
She… read more
They live in a small town very close to lots of beautiful places that can easily be explored by bike or by train in the free time.
The working hours can… read more
They are very welcoming and friendly. Share a tea or coffee after dinner, watch a movie or go for a walk in the snow. The family has their own routine so it is easy to adapt to them. The work we did was in the cellar below, painting and placing stucco on the floor and… read more
As he has proclaimed himself, he is good at starting but not finishing projects and he told us a lot of new ideas too so we daresay there will probably always be a variety of work to do. We helped building the… read more
