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Our organic jams got onto all the top tables around the world. Now our eldest son does that and Nick and I have a small but perfectly formed Tearoom across the courtyard, where we organise breakfasts and brunches. All menus are homemade using ingredients from local small scale producers.
Recently opened an art gallery for people whose work we value(be it photographers, painters, sculptors, designers or any kind of artist in general). Our regular vernissages are becoming local events.
Film makers who have travelled the world, making films for mainstream companies as well as our own indie productions, we love watching films and series (also talking about them). We have a fine repertory of these. On the top floor there is a library, for the book lovers.
Needed a hand with the weeding, the casual veg plot, walking and feeding the animals and freshening up paintwork, outside and inside. The library could also use some organising. Two local cob-style horses to enjoy, two cheerful Jack Russell Terriers, a fat cat called Maude and a bunch of chickens.
Twenty minutes drive from huge clean sandy beaches. Great walks along the green pastures right next to home, lively local markets. Not recommended for nightlife other than owls, but possible forays to Le Touquet in season. English speaking family surrounded by northern French. From Le Touquet it's an easy trip if you want to hop to London, Paris and Brussels.Types of help and learning opportunities
GardeningGeneral MaintenanceAnimal CareHelp with Computers/ InternetUN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Impossible to predict! A brew of organic growing, home scale, fruit prepping, welcoming visitors,
Enjoying dogs, horses and countryside. In deepest France with a cosmopolitan vibeProjects involving children
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Possible fruit preparation and jam making in addition to the mentioned in the main description.
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Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: FluentThis 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
Top floor with own bathroom in main house
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
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Space for parking camper vans
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How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
5 hrs max. nothing formalised
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their home culture ( food, child raising,
& the importance of card games) . But in between entertaining us they were dazzlingly efficient gardeners: and happily self-motivated. All we did was to exp’ain what was needed & it was done, with great skill - pruning fruit trees -… read more
& complementary duo. Valentina excelled
at imaginative creative interventions in the garden while at the same… read more
I got to… read more
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their home culture ( food, child raising,
& the importance of card games) . But in between entertaining us they were dazzlingly efficient gardeners: and happily self-motivated. All we did was to exp’ain what was needed & it was done, with great skill - pruning fruit trees -… read more
& complementary duo. Valentina excelled
at imaginative creative interventions in the garden while at the same… read more
I got to… read more
We had a great time feeding horses, chickens, the lovely dog Polly, and ourselves with fresh vegetables from their garden. We explored the scenery… read more
Their dog Polly is the sweetest animal on the planet and we loved going on walks with her.… read more
(and it’s only been 2 weeks since we left)
Not only are they the most amazing and loving hosts ever, but they are both incredibly inspiring and passionate people. Staying in St. Remy was our first Workaway experience, traveling all the way from Texas. From the first car ride from the train station with… read more
We really lucked out with such perfect hosts. Nick and Judy have been living such well traveled lives as artists and filmmakers, and it shows through the photos and… read more
aware of where she could
pitch in and make a difference, joyfully busy, an enthusiastic, attentive gardener, loads of initiative but never overdone. And a sense of humour too!
She has an air of calm grace that is wrapped around a core of keen and focused attentiveness. She snapped into Tearoom mode as a super efficient server, surprised us with her skill at making chapatis, was adored by our rescue dog, was an altogether terrific addition to our work and life.
He was super sensitive to everything going on around him. Always ready to jump in and help out. And we were impressed by his determination to better his English, with his classic reading list. Come back next year!
My accommodation was in the house so It was easy to speak with them and Judith is always helping you and asking you questions to… read more
Nick shares his many filmmaking experiences, which are… read more
I spent two short weeks during August 2020 with a friend at the Tearoom with Nick and Judith, it was my first woraway and I think I could not dream better!
I still remember the… read more
Their house is a typical French country house with a lovely courtyard. Every day during a pause from work I enjoyed a cup of afternoon tea there. I did… read more
that it was transformed into a soigné enclosure where tender… read more
doing ... be it jam making, TeaRoom, cat, dogs, horses or kittens.
She was a confident and steady rider, and I was absolutely happy about her hacking out each of our horses alone. And then, we got landed with a double kitten project, Abandoned, they were taken… read more
reflective with it. A terrific helping hand, efficient at everything we suggested - and at all the things he saw needed doing, and just did. A vigorous and knowledgeable weeder, generally good at kitchens, and able to spend days sanding down,… read more
Both Nick and Judy are very nice, friendly and interesting, open-minded people. During meals… read more
We had great discussions around a good meal! (and delicious jams)
Judy and Nick are very friendly, open and caring.
We enjoyed gardening, helping with the work to prepare the exhibition of Nick's paintings and walking the two adorable little dogs :)
A special… read more
work with, eager to plunge right in to whatever we needed a hand with. throwing up plasterboard for our upcoming exhibition space, digging rocks out of upcoming potager,
always good fun and enthusiastic visitors of local coast and country. lucky their hosts… read more
house person for which we were grateful as he took over the household when we had a dash
to the UK. helped with on-going renovation, got the lawn under control and was a thoughtful
companion. a visit only four rather than five star for reasons out of… read more
plunge into the Big Stuff. Give us your Dreams, we heard them thinking, and we ll make them real. So we did. From a stock room full of junk, Sven carved out the exhibition space NIck longed
for but alone, the task seemed overwhelming. And I had murmured… read more
But of course, people like you must get good feedback for the next travelers.
Nick and Judith are so amazing people that I had a hard time going on to the next one. They are so charming and nice to me like a father and mother in the middle of the trip and then I enjoyed helping them for two weeks. keep the dogs Amy and… read more
Entre le jardinage, la cuisine, les balades dans la campagne et les délicieux repas que nous avons partagé, nous garderons un excellent souvenir de ce séjour dans le nord de la France.
Merci encore pour votre accueil chaleureux et à très bientôt on espère.
xxx
really good company as super bright, thoughtful, and well informed
good fun too
but Together, they made a perfect Workaway team.
Lots of cultural exchange, for real, Plus helping hands, offered generously and without fuss.
The terriers adored them, with reason.
They both re eagled hidden talent for British baking.
We miss them, both.
he had to make from Chinese to English to French, and the way he forged a strong team
with German Marie, ten years his senior, was impressive. He was seriously loving towards the
two dogs, to the extent of vacating his bed for them when they pitched up in his.
As… read more
Because of the first time for me to try this workaway, I've widened my horizon and learned sooooo much, such as the first time to try the hand-made jams, the little… read more
There is no word to describe my very 1st experiences as workeraway on Judy and Nick's Family.
First of all, I never felt alone or lonely when i stayed there with them. They are a couple with simple living:
* less TV more reading and painting. There is a lot of painting painted by Nick, he has passion with painting,… read more
Thank you both very much for a most pleasant first workaway project, I look… read more
cheerfully lending their hands and nimble minds to anything we threw
at them, from boring weeding of the courtyard - Better Than Monsanto -
to jolly jam-making. Withon an hour, it was clear that they were fine to
continue on their own, xooking, potting, lidding and mopping up… read more
precise presence made a thorough job of whatever we threw at them,
and gave every sign of enjoying it, too. Walking dogs and mucking out
horses was an hors d'oeuvre to the main business of scrubbing out the
jam atelier, leaving it impecxable. As a bonus, they quietly… read more
They were thoughtful students of, respectively, literature and politics,
who plunged eagerly into the hands-on work we needed to be done:
the sight of two elegant Italians pulling on misshapen ill-assorted un becoming protective garments was enjoyable as they were both giggling and… read more
and did heaps of serious work - and far more m
neatly and cheerfully than us. how sad for us she will be living in New Zealand!