Summerhouse by a large lake in Heinola, middle of Finland

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  Description

  We are a couple from nice year 1966 living summers in Heinola and winters in Sisily, the Accomondation offered is in our summerhouse witch is located close to Heinola, a nice summer city by a large lake. We have some small jobs to be done as we have been in italy for the past 6 months.
  
  Some nice usual small tasks as chopping wood of gardening or making a pergola is available + of course fishing. We will also teach for you the Real Finnish way of enjoying the summertime away from the hassle of big cities and enjoying the nature and clear waters of our district.
  
  As we are by the lake, you can do swimming, fiching boating, in the nature of course hiking and biking
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  Tarjoamme majoitusta Heinolassa puhdasvetisen järven rannalla. Oleskelemme italiassa talviajan joten kevään ja alkukesän aikana meillä on mahdollisuus ottaa vastaan vieraita tutustumaan suomalaiseen mökkielämään.
  
  Kevyitä aputöitä riittää esim puiden pilkkomista rantasaunaamme varten tai vaikka pergolan kasaamista. Vapaa aikanasi voit liikkua järvellä tai käydä lähikaupungissamme Heinolassa
  
  Vapaa aikana voit kalastaa, uida ja nauttia puhdasvetisestä järvestä, pyöräillä, patikoida ja vaeltaa. Kyyti lähikaupunkiin onnistuu sovittaessa, pyörälläkin pääsee

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Help around the house
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  Interests

  

  Culture

  

  Sustainability

  

  Van life

  

  Self development

  

  Gardening

  

  Plant care

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Languages

  

  Carpentry

  

  Water sports

  

  Sailing / Boating

  

  Nature

  

  Camping

  

  Beach

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Hiking

  

  Cycling
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Finland is quite different culture than the rest of northern countries. We have 180.000 lakes and a very long tradition of having a summer cottage by the lake. In these places we have the nature around us, we warm up the sauna every day (something which does not exist anywhere else than in Finland), we jump to the lake and barbeque when the evening comes but the sun never sets. We have unique rights to go fishing, berry picking and mushroom picking to the forests. Typically the summer houses are such that there is always something to renovate, some gardening to do, some potatoes to grow. So maybe we can show some very unigue way of summer living in Finland, teach how to cook finnish food, what kind of berries etc we can pick or grow even though we are very north, how to warm up sauna and how is the tradition going. We allways build or renovate something so maybe can teach some new skill in that era as well.We love to travel so we are very interested of foreign people and cultures so we hope we can learn something new from a culture we may not know so well, or even get a new friend. We are very social so we always have friends and family members visiting us, so we are very used to have people around us. Our summer house is only 5 km from the next city so we can go there together either by boat or car and see the small town living and summer events together.

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  Help

  Gardening and other kind of summerhouse tasks, biggest task is to creating a greenhouse, best is helping in fisching
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  Kevyttä kunnostustyötä ja halkojen hakkuuta tiedossa sekä kalastusta ja puutarhan hoitoa

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Swedish: Intermediate
  Italian: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  We are studying italian so we would appriciate help on learning
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  Accommodation

  We have 3 guest rooms, sauna by the lake and we will offer typical finnis and italian food like smoked fisch for you during your stay
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  Suomalaisen kesämökin aittamajoitus ja rantasauna virkistymiseen
  Ruoka ja juomat talon puolesta. Teemme ja syömme suomalaista ja Italialaista ruokaa grillaten ja savustellen

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  We have been working remotely ourselves, so Wifi is good up to 600mgb

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Matkailu autot aina 7,5 metriin asti mahtuu pihallemme. Paikan päällä saat sähkön ja vettä, Campers and vans up to 7,5 meters fit in to our yard

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  Can possibly accept pets

  If you have a dog with you no problem as its friendly...

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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