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Never without ideas or work..! We have our own house that still need some work (painting), helping out with the wood, our forrest need some clean up and be pruned, we need help in the garden with a stunning vieuw on lake (Kallsjön) and the mountain (Åreskutan).
2008 we moved to Sweden and still love to live here. We are Marrik (49) and Mathilde (44), Finn (14) and Sanna (11) and our dogs Smokey and Peanut and some chickens. We have a farmhouse with some land and forrest, to much to handle by ourselfs so we need some help!
After traveling a lot we now want to invited travellers at our place.Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Dutch family that likes adventures, going for a fish, hike ore canoe trip and make a fire. We can learn you all about the country living lifestyle!
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Help
Looking for a someone/couple that want to help chopping wood, mowing or/and helping with everything happening at our garden/land, taking out the dogs.
SUMMER 2025 we still need to do some painting on the house and need help with that!Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.Accommodation
You have youre own cabin in the forrest, close to the lake on our yard, 7 min. walk from our house. It has a livingroom and sleepingroom, a little kitchen where you can cook. There's no shower there but you can take it at our house. And of course you can use the lake to fresh up!
What else ...
We're living i Back with a awesom vieuw at the Åreskutan, the nearest village is Kall with a shop/petrolstation.
Järpen is 22 km away and has a service like bank/medical care, railwaystation.
Åre is about 50 km and you can do some MTB there ().
Östersund (with the biggest cityarea, hospital and shoppingmalls etc) is 100 km away.
There's a bus going to Järpen /Östersund in the morning, coming back in the evening (holidaytimes monday,wednessday and friday). And of course you can go hitchhiking.
If you want to enjoy the swedish wildlife, silence, natur, animals (moose, bear, fox, rendeer, deers, birds), picking berrys, work some hours mostly outside, take a bath in a wooden hottub, make a fire and get fooled by the fact the sun is not going down... come and stay with us to make some memories.A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
we have good wifi connection in the house.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
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We loved to have Roos around our house! She very open minded, eager to learn and not afraid to work, learn and try new things. We did a lot of work together, good conversations, games,… read more
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We loved to have Roos around our house! She very open minded, eager to learn and not afraid to work, learn and try new things. We did a lot of work together, good conversations, games,… read more
Thanks for the help around our house! Myrthe & Antonio are really easy going and eager to learn. They have been working and traveling a lot and know by a few words what the should do. Not afraid to take some own initiative. The go in all hearted with all kinds of work, a really good work mentality! We loved having you around in our life and… read more
I had various tasks like cutting grass, weeding, storing woods, ... I never felt like a worker but more like an helping… read more
They perfectly managed to let us be part of the family while giving us also privacy in the beautiful cabin on the lake.
Involving us in all of their activities gave us the chance to experience their lifestyle.
We mostly appreciated the work… read more
My stay at this wonderful place with an amazing view to Åreskutan, and a very lovely family, lasted 3 weeks. The work was very varied and fun. I did wood splitting, mowing, collecting cut gras, picking berries, a bit of harvesting,...
Marrik, Mathilde, Finn, Sanna and the dogs are a great, very open - minded and and friendly family and I… read more
Our main work was painting a cabin, where we lived and also we did a little wood chopping and picking berries. The work was funny and not very hard.
After the working day we spent time playing and painting with the kids, practicing our… read more