Open minded, warm hearted family on Gotland, Sweden

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    In the middle of the island Gotland in the middle of Baltic is our home. Up until the 60’s it was run as a small farm, we would love for it to return to just that. However, at the moment we are just trying to restore the main house and the farm buildings with respect for the traditional methods, materials and of course the environment.

    Fole, our parish, is an active part of Gotland were people live all year round. It is 16 km from the medieval town of Visby, part of the world heritage. And the sea is never far away, you can go for a swim, either on white beaches or from cliffs diving directly into the sea. Gotland is the perfect island for tourism. You are never far from the sea, an old monument or beautiful nature. In the summer there are plenty of pitoresque cafés where you can enjoy a typical Swedish fika (google it!).

    We are a husband and wife with two kids (9 and 11 years old), one dog, one cat, 10 hens and 1 cock. We like working around the house, good food (cheese), a glass of wine (not the kids 😊) and we love our friends and family. We thrive when the house is full and firmly believe “the more the merrier”.

    Kjell – pappa in the house – is an engineer. Fanny – mamma – project manager.

    Right now the kids are very into their sports, gymnastics and speedway are their main interests. They also do climbing, , bmx and free diving. It would be awesome if you have some experience and could help out with some training!

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
    House sitting
  • Interests

    Interests

    Events & social
    Farming
    Culture
    Pets
    Technology
    Politics / Social justice
    LGBTQ
    Sustainability
    Animals
    Architecture
    History
    Music
    Books
    Photography
    Languages
    Gardening
    Cooking & food
    Carpentry
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    When hanging out with us you will learn about the realities of a family in Sweden with school children. Maybe you will want to help us make bake a cake or tag along for gymnastics training? We try to find the extraordinary in everyday life, enjoying the tulips in spring and the fiery colours of fall, please join us! 😊

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

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

  • Help

    Help

    We need help with our old farm buildings, which includes things like restoring windows and alot of painting, You do not have to have any long experience. But you need to be a bit handy and able to work without supervision.

    We would also love help with the garden and every year we need to fill our wood storage. You will probaly be asked to work with things that will make you break a sweat from time to time.

    Most of the time you will be able to decide on your own when you put in your hours. If you want to do long days and have longer breaks that is absolute fine for us. But if larger things are taking place we might need help for a full couple of days. Normally we would expect you to work on average 4-5 hours 5 days a week.

    It is often the interest and the experience of the workawayer that determine what he/she helps us with. Some examples of things we would love to be helped with now:

    Painting jobs on small surfaces - attention to detail required
    Painting of roof and facade of the house
    Dig the vegetable garden
    Prepare for new plantations
    Renovating window lining and skirting boards
    Wood storage
    Plaster a part of the facade

    We can provide you with appropriate clothes in the sizes S-L if necessary.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    French: Fluent
    Swedish: Fluent
    Spanish: Intermediate

    This host offers a language exchange
    We have quite the habit of helping beginners with Swedish. And we LOVE to speak a bit of french from time to time. :-)

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Staying with us you will have a room in the same house that we live in. We all share the same bathroom and kitchen. Your room is furnished with a bed that could fit two persons if you really like each other. Otherwise an extra guest bed could fit in the room too. You can close the doors to the room, but not lock them.

    During your stay we consider you a part of our family with the pros and cons! We will expect that you help out with the normal stuff that has to be done in a household. Such as, cooking from time to time, the dishes, cleaning the table and things like that. To be clear, we do not run a bed and breakfast – we are just a family.

    We are not vegetarians, but we do not mind if you are. If you are a vegetarian you would have to more engaged in planning and cooking dinners. We enjoy veggeis and do not mind having them every day - but we need help with inspiration and ideas.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    From our house it is 3 km to the closest bus stop. We will lend you a bicycle so you can move around a bit more freely. If you feel for it it is absolutely possible to go by bike to the sea or to Visby, maybe just not twice in a day. (And only when the temperatures allow)

    Close to home there are several ancient remains, at least three medieval churches and nice walks through forests and cultivated land. There is also, in the parish next to ours, an abandoned limestone quarry that now provide for a giant pool with turquoise water. If you like fishing we will lend you our rods.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    The size of the campervan is no problem.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

Host ref number: 248324177625

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