Join our busy-buzzing family living in the french-speaking countryside of Argenteau, Belgium

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  Beschreibung

  We are: Anouk & Maarten with teenage triplets Nina, Chet & Miles (16) and our 2 dogs (Bink en Meiske). Our older children Hugo (26), Lily (25) and Jules (23) live, study and work in Amsterdam.
  
  We're an Euregion (dutch-german) busy-buzzing family living on the Belgium french-speaking countryside next to 3 cities (Maastricht, Liege and Aachen).
  
  We are non-religious (although we’ve adopted a lot of crucifixes from the thrift shop - Anouks hobby), liberal ‘Dutch’, humanistic and down to earth.
  
  Our language at home is Dutch.
  
  Anouk works fulltime on an European science project based in Maastricht and Maarten also fulltime in a finance position at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven.
  
  We live in a small village in a charming beautiful big old 18th century house named Villa des Roses with a tower, congiergerie, orangerie, pigeonnaire, cabin in the woods, a big ecological style garden, vegetable patches and a forest with pathways on 20.000m2 of our own.

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten

  Leichte Gartenarbeit

  Kreative Heimwerkerprojekte

  Betreuung von Tieren

  Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie

  Hausarbeiten

  Leichte Instandhaltungsarbeiten
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  We are a non-religious, liberal, open-minded, pro-active, positive, busy-buzzing and out-going ‘Dutch’ family.
  
  We also welcome workaways with disabilities or issues like asperger, hypersensitiveness, anxiety, adhd. But we would like to be noticed in advance, so we can adapt.
  
  We respect all religions/orientations/genders and would never try to convince/persuade/change a lifestyle or a person. We also respect nature and sustainability a lot. We expect the same attitude of you.
  
  But we never mind a good discussion which ends in an agree to disagree or maybe an understanding and another perspective of how someone else lives their life.
  
  During dinner we speak dutch, that can be challenging at first, but after a short while you will understand the basics :)

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  Projekte mit Kindern

  Dieses Projekt schließt möglicherweise den Umgang mit Kindern ein. Mehr Informationen findest du in unseren Verhaltensregeln und Tipps hier.

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  Arbeit

  Our ideal workawayer is >25 years old and wants to stay at least a month. Proactivity and independency towards the help you provide is really important to us. You see where help is needed without us asking. We also use an organizing app called Trello.
  
  Because we work fulltime, we have weekdays chores: helping with easy householdtasks like cleaning & arranging, picking up the triplets from school or fieldhockey in Maastricht; dogcare; some cooking if your good at it (we have a huge woodoven outside): Anouk is a flex-vegan although the rest of the family isn’t. We cook healthy, fresh food. We also have two Thermomixes/Bimbi’s so that’s an easy helper in the kitchen!
  
  Then there are some special projects depending your interest and skills like creating an outside groundfridge, some inside/outside painting and vintage wallpapering in the house. Woodchopping, garden maintenance and clearing pathway. Removing invasive brambles (removing the CO2 deposit) and cutting hedges. Helping rearrange/sorting out ‘stuff’.
  
  A drivers license is a must, because school and fieldhockey is a 20k oneway distant drive. We have an automatic 8 persons Hyundai minivan.
  
  A travels/health/personal liability insurance is mandatory if you want to stay with us.

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  Sprachen

  Gesprochene Sprachen
  Deutsch: Fließend
  Englisch: Fließend
  Französisch: Fließend
  Niederländisch: Fließend

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  Bitte wende dich direkt an ihn, um weitere Auskünfte zu erhalten.
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  Unterkunft

  We have a nice workawayroom with a double bed/entresol and living space. Here you share the bathroom with the triplets. Sometimes the workaways overlap, therefore we use a spare guestroom, with a double bed. We’ll provide food and beverages, you can choose them in the supermarket if you have special requests. Happy to join us for meals or let us know in you have other plans.

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  Was noch ...

  During the weekends you can do your thing. Antwerp, Bruges, Brussel, Köln, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam and even Paris and Berlin are easy to reach by public transport. But you are also welcome to chill at the property.
  
  Sometimes we need to be ‘just the two of us’ and go on a trip for a couple of days, then you run the ‘menagerie’. This could be during a long weekend, but we schedule this together with your plans and change it for days off during the week.
  
  During weekends/weekdays when the kids are off to school or the evenings you can visit the cities/areas/points of interest close by, go for numerous hikes around the Natura2000 valley surrounding our village, go urban exploring at the immense abandoned steelfactory opposite the river ‘Maas/Meuse’, the abandoned castles and colemines in the neighbourhood.
  
  Furthermore, we have a yogaroom/gym, meditate in our ‘cabin in the woods, or try out your creative talents in our atelier!
  
  If your into music, go ahead and use the piano, grab a guitar or try the violin.

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  Etwas mehr Information

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    Internet Zugang

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    Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

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    Wir besitzen Tiere

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    Wir sind Raucher

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    Familien möglich

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  Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

  We have wifi and 4g connection, but when everybody is online, the wifi can slow down.

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  We have a beautiful area for a mobile home/caravan near our 'congiergerie', with water and electricity.

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  Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

  zwei

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  Meine Tiere/Haustiere

  

  Meiske (5 Jahren)

  Funny furball

  

  Bink (10 Jahren)

  Super sweet old guy, with a manual concerning not familiar animals.

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