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My name is Christine. I run a tourist village of three houses and need help with general maintainance on the houses and around the proparty. it is the same company who is renting, so there is no checking in or out. most work is outdoors, Painting, planting blueberry busches, and more , cutting firewood and handling it and more. we are fixing up a motorboat, so sanding and painting. I like to grow more vegetables since I eat almost no meat, and no gluten at all. But it is ok if you do. I love the healty lifestile I live. We are busy change the garage into livingroom, kitchen and bathroom, so if you are a handyman it would be great. we are also project with building a sauna on weels, building roof , and we need a plumer for some projekts on weels. I live on the countryside , !4 km from closets shopping. There a busses near by. I Love the outdoors and I am a sunseeker. I write soft music and poems, I am a potter but curently I do not have a workshoop. I love art , flowers and swiming in a lake in summertime. We have 368 lakes in Finspång so swiming canoing and fishing is easy. Most of all I love my 3 children and 4 grandchildren. Age 6, 4 , 3 , 2and new born. , They are so lovly.
I am looking for help During june until december. Thank you and Welcome. Ps. summer of 2018 was wounerful. My first summer as a workawyer host. I have made new dear friends from Ungary, Japan, Polen, Italy, Chilli, Iran-india Spain and France. This workaway experiens has given me lots of fun and I have learn a lot from them.The best thing is that all my eleven workawayers want to come back to visit or to move here. I am so happy.Thank you all. Summer of year 2019 and 2020 was also great and a lot of wounderful workawaers change my life and toucht my heart with their kindness. love to you all.Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
See the beuty of sweden. use our rowingboat or canoes. We have 368 lakes in Finspång. wildlife fishing swiming. Learn how to cook glutefree and a learning lot about healthy eating. You can visit Norrrköping a butiful old town near the water, Söderköping is also pretty with old wooden houses and so on. we have Golf in both Finspång and Norrköping, Shoping, resturangs , cinema and so on. Take the tramp and se Norrköping close to the Sea.
Help
General maintainance around the proparty. building, the kichen and bathroom in the garage. Painting the furnitured boats and or houses, washing windows, fierwood handling, brushcutting , growing vegetables, picking wild herbs and lots more. thank you so mucht.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
German: BeginnerAccommodation
we have many places to sleep. During cold time you can stay in my first rentalhouse , you can cook there, it has kitchen, shower , bathroom, tv and bedroom. summertime You can live in an caravan and use the rentalhouse for cooking and so on, We now have 4 caravans. two of the caravans is for two people and one retro caravan for one person. and one more is for one person. please tell me if it is ok for you to share caravan or not.
What else ...
In norrköping you have all you want from a town, shopping, culture, dining, You can use the tramp in Norrköping, There are busses from our house to Norrköping , Finspång and so on. Norrköping also have train station and airport.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (28)
She took us to a boat ride, sauna and to meet her parents house wich was amazing. The Wifi is excellent… read more
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She took us to a boat ride, sauna and to meet her parents house wich was amazing. The Wifi is excellent… read more
thank you so mucht for all your great help at our busy farm place. You are a very nice girl, always a smile in all weather ready to do any task, big or small. You worked with cutting schrubs with big mascines, digging for my new padio, collecting firewood and compost , cleaning at my parents place, carring stuff, so many things ,… read more
Thank you again Christine for everything!
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I was so lucky to have you here, You are always such a great help. always on time , happy to help with what ever in all weather. and you also do it very well. time gos by so fast and you have been planting, digging , painting, sanding the big boat, helping with , carry stuff, cutting firewood with the big two mascines and putting it in… read more
we really enjoyed our stay at your place. You were always really friendly and the work was fun. It was our first workaway experience and we loved it. There were many activities you offered us for our our free time (boats, bikes etc.) which we really appreciated. Thank you for everything and we will definitely visit again!
Thanks for… read more
Christine is a very caring person, we learned a lot from her about gardening and nutrition, and you can talk to her about what kind of tasks you would like to do, she always has an open ear.
It's okay to spend… read more
I can highly recommend any WaW travelers to visit this beautiful place. The hospitality of the family was amazing, open minded, friendly, a lot of humor and laughs, fantastic food, the surroundings with lakes and woods, small path into the… read more
You where busy moving all your belongings to your new house, still you made time to come and help. You and my oldest son spend long days building , putting up the ceiling and fixing the windows indoors. It looks great. Thank you so mucht. My son really like you a lot to, and… read more
As you might read on the others feedback, Christine's place is such of nice place to do your workaway. You have your own place to stay and share next to the others workawayers, food, very open schedule to organise your task every… read more
I have so many words to say about this workaway and it's hard to write them all. Since the very first moment I asked for something but a job, I wanted a new experience, my first workaway ever, and I explained it in the first message I sent.
She went for me on a sunday night even when she wasn't in a really good time, and we talked… read more
Regarding Christine, all I can say about her are good words. Undoubtedly, he is the friendliest Swedish person there is. She likes to interact and shared… read more
I want to dearly thank you for all your help at my place. You work helpt to transform my forest into a nice park. I almost did not recognice where I was. You where always very happy , helpful , and hardworking. Even when I said you did not have to work, you did it anyway witout telling me. you where part of the workaway… read more
you took very good care of me during my short stay with you! The communication was perfect, the work was easy and varied and the days were relaxed and calm. Thank you for understanding my need to go and being nothing but supportive about it! I hope I can come back and stay longer with you some time!
All the best, Nuria
I am sorry you had to leave to soon , but you had to go home and help your family . I understand and I hope all is good now. I wish you all the best and welcome back when you can. lots of love. Christine.
Christine, from the very first day of our arrival, you were a very kind and share person. You gave us the opportunity to live in your rental house, which we really… read more
I am so happy and greatful for all your help. My strawberryfield looks wounderful now. my messy forest is turned in to a nice park. I have lots of fine firewood and woodchips for the garden. my deck is painted , the green caravan clean and so on. You are so nice , always happy to help and great at organising your day.… read more
Thank you so mucht for all your help and all your wounderful baking. I hope you get in to the baking contest you where talking about. I think you will win. You where a great joy and big help in the garden and so on. I am so happy for your help painting the decks and so on. You were a great painting team with Pia and Daniel. I loved… read more
What an absolutely unforgettable time did we have last summer, July went by so fast! When I left it felt like I just arrived and at the same time like I'd been with you forever. We shared a lot of beautiful thoughts and stories, I always had the feeling that you were really listening to me. That's one of the things that makes you… read more
I will never forget this wonderful experience. I am a master cutting firewood , I have improved my English, I have… read more
it seems and loves the minimalistic lifestile. It is a kind of freedom I can understand in a way but never will master. I love my stuff. Daniel is easy going, speaks good english, works well and loves my food, and thats makes me happy.
I spent there for two weeks and did some works: gardening, cutting herbs and trees, cleaning any stuffs...
She always made sure that the job was not too boring, not too much. So I enjoyed everything I got engaged in.
When I didn't work, I took advantage of the rich nature in Sweden! I swam in the lake,… read more
Thanks for all the activities we did together and welcoming me to your house.
I'm already missing your place! What a wonderful place, calm and peaceful. I only wish I would have… read more
Lifestyle, cooking, working, hanging out,... you made everything for us to enjoy these moments with you and it was perfect, we never get bored, we visited Norrkoping and Finspang as much as possible, we met your friends and familly, everybody was soooo friendly, we would… read more
I THINK THAT THAT LAST HUG WAS VERY SPECIAL
YOU HAVE BEEN VERY CUTE WITH US, WE HAVE DISCOVERED A BEAUTIFUL AND SPECIAL PERSON AND ESPECIALLY SPONTANEOUS, WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHEN YOU DANCED AT THE NIGHT OF THE CULTURE IN NORRKOPING
THE CLIMATE THAT YOU CREATE IN YOUR HOME… read more
The work was variety, she always care about our preferences never wanted us to work to hard. We have been painting, cleaning and gardening.
We had lovely time and became very good friends with her and family. We do highly recommend this host !