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We live in a beautiful small village near Provadia, an area rich with history and many places to explore and visit.
We started taming a very overgrown garden and planted several nut and fruit trees, berry bushes and shrubs with flowers that will hopefully feed the bee hives in the summer.
Spring is a busy time with lots of vegetables being planted, building works starting again after the winter. Constant maintenance of weeds and harvesting what veg and fruit is in season. I welcome any help and ideas for the garden.
We have a dog, cat and bees. Dog love sher walkies and we are happy to share our beekeeping knowledge and yummy honey with visitors.
My kids love outdoors especially wildlife and we are luckily enough that we have a large field and some woodland bordering our village where you can explore freely.
Not all our work is gardening, we always have some construction work going on, painting, decorating, maintenance and of course making use of all the produce that is available in our garden, from neighbours or just around our village (plums, walnuts, cherries, apricots etc). We make lots of juices, jams and our favourite cakes of course. We try to preserve most our the seasonal produce and use both Bulgarian and other preserving methods.
We have various small jobs and some larger jobs that we need help with, no experience needed apart from a can do attitude and if anyone has paving or plastering experience that would be a huge bonus.
My children love playing board games, painting, Lego and now learning drums and guitar so someone who can help with this would be awesome but not a requirement. The kids also attend judo classes and any newbies are welcome.
We can offer a private room, use of the kitchen and bathroom or a space for a campervan. I cook daily and you will be welcome to join us or cook for yourself. Although we love sampling the cuisine from our guests. As a family we try to eat more vegetables so any new recipes are most welcome.
The village is very small but we do go out , there's 2 village shops and there is transport to Varna etc. Can provide a bicycle if you fancy cycling anywhere.
We generally ask for help 4/5 hours daily 5/6days a week depending of what work is being done. Task I want completed can be discussed and you can work out your own schedule. I will not be looking over your shoulder and I don't expect you to be a workhorse and want you to enjoy your time with us also, you are most welcome to use us as a base whilst you go explore Bulgaria more if you cannot find other hosts.
We are a relaxed family that enjoy experiencing other cultures and welcome people who are flexible, fun and easy going.
In the spring we will start helping at a dog charity who is always desperate for help.
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
We learn something new everyday to be honest, but I will learn with you about organic gardening and my husband can teach you lots about building/maintenance. Above all we can show you a more organic natural way of live as we want to be as self sufficient as possible. I love immersing myself into bulgarian style of life with all their traditions.
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
We can offer a variety of work like construction which will always be explained and only to your own ability, painting, wood chopping and just general maintenance whereas our lighter jobs are gardening and light maintenance like painting although youd be welcome to have a go at other things.
We are building new pens for our animals, buildign walls, relaying paths, chopping wood, goodness the list just goes on and on and on.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
This host offers a language exchange
My daughter is interested in Spanish
I can offer a private room or a space for a camper van/tent. You will have access to the kitchen at all times so can cook when needed.
There's lots to see in Bulgaria and we would be happy for you to tour around whilst being stationary at ours.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
We have a massive garden which can host a campervan and even has a outside toilet to use.
We have a dog which is friendly. Please contact me beforehand as weve not had people stay with other pets before so would need to think about it if you can describe the character of your dog then i cant forsee a problem.
Two
Around 5 hours a day 5 days a week
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