Creative play and help around our family home in Chalais, France

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  Description

  We are a family of 3:
  - Flore (41 F) is working in IT, from home most of the time
  - Babou (39 F) is a stay-at-home mom for the moment
  - Orion (7 M) is our son and a homeschooler and spends most of his time playing.
  
  We live in Chalais, right between Bordeaux and Angoulême, both cities easily accessible by train (we live 3 minutes away from the train station). Although Chalais is small, it has all the amenities and infrastructures needed : supermarkets, bakeries, restaurants, shops, local market, library, cinema, ... and everything can be reached on foot from our place.
  Bordeaux is one of the biggest city in France and is delightful to visit any time of year. Angoulême is mostly famous for its international comic festival hosted once a year, but it's also a pretty nice medium city where you'll find pretty much everything you need. The comics library there is just the best thing ever if you're into comic books.
  Around Chalais, there are nice rivers and lakes to bath in in summer but the only touristy place is Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, a charming village 10 minutes away.
  A bit further, and less accessible than Bordeaux and Angoulême, you can go to the Atlantic ocean (Royans, Oléron Island, Fort-Boyard, La Rochelle in Charente-Maritime or Médoc, Lacanau, Arcachon or Pila dune in Gironde), visit wineyards in Cognac or St-Emilion, or see a castle or a hundread in neighbour Dordogne/Périgord region. If you're up for a 2/3 hours trip, there are tons of very known sights such as Lascaux's prehistoric cave, medieval Sarlat-la-Caneda, Padirac cave or Rocamadour.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Animal Care

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We are a family who is very used to welcoming guests, having hosted for many many years. We are looking for guests who will interact with us, eat with us, share what they like with us. It is important to note that we have a stay-at-home son, and he is definitely included in these statements. If you don't feel like interacting with a kid, there is no point in coming to our place.
  Most of our activities at home are playing board games/video games, reading, doing some creative activities like drawing or knitting, gardening in summer. We're mostly geeks, though, you've been warned :D

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We don't require much help but we'd be happy to have someone a bit like an au pair, willing to interact/play with Orion and helping with basic tasks at home.
  We might have a bit of basic home-improvement to do if you're into that (we're not but we will be happy to benefit from it :D)
  
  So yeah, you'll most likely be asked to play games or wash the dishes.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  French: Fluent
  German: Intermediate
  Japanese: Intermediate
  Spanish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  We are interested in practising other languages and for guests to play and interact with our son in their own language.
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  Accommodation

  We have a guest room with a queen-size bed. We can add a mattress if you come with kid(s). The guest room is a very standard room.
  You're welcome in every part of our home, of course! If you prefer hanging out in the living-room, that's fine with us.
  The sad thing about our place is that there is no bathtub and even the shower is pretty small.
  
  We eat mainly organic and don't mind providing food for our guests. We try to eat meat at most once a day. We cook a variety of meals, usually quite well :)
  If you have a special diet, we will try to accomodate you as best as we can. I think it would be inconvenient to not eat the same meal most of the times as the kitchen is small, but we won't mind it happening from time to time, or on breakfast (everyone just eats it when they get up, here).
  We're also looking forward to tasting your cuisine if it's any good :)

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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

  Internet is fast here even if we're in the countryside! We can provide a small desk in the guest room. Sometimes there can be many children at home so you might need headphones to be able to work without getting disturbed. Flore is working from home 4 days/week.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  There is a parking across the street where bigger vehicles can stay, but I'm not sur for how long.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

  Between 1 and 3 hours/day, 5 days/week

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