Pet sitting, language exchange with our family in Killaloe besides the river Shannon, Ireland

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  Beschreibung

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  From November onwards ( November is usually a mild enough month in Ireland ) we look to get ready for the next gardening season, in our veg garden.
  
  Next year 2025
  We are looking for garden and pet sitters in spring and summer for the time we are travelling ourselves.
  For House and Pet sitting - happy to take a family in our holidays, maybe do a house swap?!
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  We are family of 4, with 2 teens, living near Killaloe, a small town, besides the River Shannon, on the Clare/Tipperary boarder 1,5 km walking distance to town and its shops, cafes and pubs.
  
  Generally:
  We would be delighted to host 1 or 2 able bodied people at a time, people, from any background, with a strong nature connection.
  We have 2 teen Scouts in the house.
  We all like to learn about other cultures.
  As we don't travel much ourselves it is nice to bring the world to us via visitors.
  I like to brush up on French myself.
  Our teenagers would benefit of someone teaching German.
  
  
  At the moment (December/January):
  it easier for us to host 1 person only as guest room still under construction, 1-3 weeks would work for us but we are flexible.
  
  So, we are generally looking for people to join our household for a minimum of a week,
  to help with our garden to get it ready for next year’s growing season.
  Digging is a great part- drainage trenches, trees, shrubs, footpaths.
  
  Other repairs and upgrading work, around the house -indoors/outdoors - in various weather conditions.
  Further we need help with bricklaying of a part of an indoors wall, building a carport roof and a roof for our stored fire wood and building timber.
  
  Bear in mind, it’s raining ☔️ a lot and the wind can be strong - it would help to bring wet gear and sturdy waterproof (hiking) shoes AND wellies. On the other hand the sun is never hiding for long ⛅️
  
  We are not really a farm, while some people say we are. There are some chickens, incl a rooster with attitude, 3 cats and a sheep dog.
  
  Overall we would like to get the place ready and safe for Forest School activities next year.
  That includes tidying a storage room, shed, garage.

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Sprachpraxis

  Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten

  Unterrichten

  Gartenarbeiten

  Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten

  Betreuung von Tieren

  Hausarbeiten

  Handwerkliche Arbeiten

  House sitting
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  We offer:
  - your own bedroom , a shared bathroom, 3 meals, use of a washing machine,
  - shared kitchen if you want to cook yourself, incl a space in the fridge an freezer
  - a space in front of the fireplace
  
  
  
  - and we are flexible with working hours, so if you rather work 1 day long instead of 2 days short that’s fine
  
  - What can you learn and experience here?
  
  - You can join us in the kitchen, baking bread, brewing beer
  
  - in summer we grow a variety of herbs in our herb garden, and I have a strong interest and a cert for the traditional use of herbs and wild plants incl in a home apothecary - a knowledge that I am happy to share
  
  
  
  - Local life, we help you to get
  connected
  
  - any form of water sport
  paddling, cold water swimming - yes -people swim here all year round, you can also borrow one of our kayaks
  
  - pub life, cafés, restaurants nearby
  
  - we can teach you English, according to your level,
  btw I have a qualification in teaching languages
  
  - if you want to learn a bit of Irish you can learn from our teenager or
  ☘️ we help finding you a teacher
  
  - help you to get to know the area, here where we live,
  
  - we have mountains to hike nearby and
  
  - we will help you as well to plan ad organise your sight seeing trips to areas in Ireland, that are interesting , and if you want, a bit away from mainstream tourist areas.
  
  - The town has a gym, a library, supermarkets, life music on the weekend, a market on Sunday, and is surrounded by hills, ideal for hiking.
  
  
  There are public buses going to Killaloe, from Limerick and Dublin, and from the closest bigger town Nenagh
  If you need a lift or to be collected, let us know.

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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

  We have a medium sized garden and a part of it needs landscaping incl building of drainage trenches and a foot path, now in winter we will be hedge planting with native broad leaf trees and shrubs and building a new fence.
  
  Generally we would be happy for any help around garden and house,
  including building work, carpentry, landscaping.
  
  Some of the work that’s going to happen are:
  - painting of walls indoors
  - bricklaying of parts of a wall
  - garden: building of a foot path and a terrace.
  - drainage trenches in clay soil around shed and green house
  - digging work with shovel and pick axe,
  - working with a rotivator
  - building a deadwood hedge and planting it native trees and shrubs
  - cutting logs
  - building a carport and a timber storage
  - renovating 2 bathrooms
  - tiling
  - building a chicken run, fence
  
  
  While we do electrical work and plumbing ourselves we would be happy about any person fit in brick laying, driving a minidigger ;-) ,carpentry, and tiling, plastering, gypsum work and the like.

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  Sprachen

  Gesprochene Sprachen
  Deutsch: Fließend
  Englisch: Fließend
  Irish: Gute Kenntnisse
  Spanisch: Grundkenntnisse
  Französisch: Grundkenntnisse

  Dieser Gastgeber bietet Sprachaustausch an
  Some languages spoken in our house more or less fluent English, Irish German French Spanish
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  Unterkunft

  Separate bedroom with bunk bed,
  Shared bathroom
  
  for short stays we offer a comfortable couch in our sitting room,

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  Was noch ...

  We are happy to answer any questions on a zoom call and forward more pics.
  
  Usually we go to Limerick ( 35 km away) twice a week and if we go to some other places we surely will offer a lift to you.
  
  From Limerick are buses and trains ( often cheaper ) to Galway, Lehinch, Cork, Tralee and more, in case you want to venture out.
  
  If you stay > 2 weeks we will can offer to organise a trip by car to a location that you would like to see within 100 km -
  you choose

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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 are flexible with working hours

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  Carpark space in front of the house. No emptying of toilet possible at our house.

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  Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

  mehr als zwei

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