Help in the village of Little-Red-Riding hood, Schwalmstadt, Germany

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  Description

  I lived many years abroad and used to live with younger people in communities. I studied History and 3-dimensional Design ( Product - design/ polytechnico before). Now, back in Germany I got 2 houses and gardens, which need renovation and maintenance.
  I like hiking, biking, various wateractivities, dancing, travelling, nature adventures, reading, various kind of music, design and history and I am curios to learn more and make new experiences. Sometimes I do a charity stand to collect money for animal care organisations and animal shelters.
  
  I am host since 2017 and I always had a good experience with workaway/ers.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Its the village of "Little-Red- Ridinghood", the country of the German Fairy tales (written by Brothers Grimm). The next big city is Kassel, where the largest international art fair, the DOCUMENTA takes place every 5 years. Kassel has various parcs ( Parc Wilhelmshöhe is Unesco heritageand in summer the spectaclous watergames) and a univercity. As well Kasssel offers various museúms and festivals.
  
  The same distance south is Marburg, one of the oldest German University Towns, with a lovely old town on the hill, where lots of students live.
  
  There are several supermarkets and one charitystore (clothes) close to the house. In summer there are a lot of music festiavals around.
  
  Due to my studies and living abroad ca. 20 years I can tell you lots about culture and history (of course, just if you are interested). There are 3 german restaurants and some turkish, italian,greek, asian and burger & kebab places.
  
  The most workawayers stayed two weeks, as they want to travel and see more places in Germany or Europe. Longer terms are possible and depends, as Itake a break once in a while.

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  Help

  I got two houses to take care of. One is a modern bungalow, which needs gardening.
  The other one is an 200 year old typical German Fachwerkhouse, which needs renovation and full gardening. Its about 16 km distance between both of them.
  
  There is various stuff to do and usually we talk about the tasks before. In general any task is a job, which I assume, can be done in 4 hours -due to my own experience. We will talk about it before as I always try to hand out a work, which suits your skills. You should be able to work autonomous.
  
  Most of the work is at the old house & garden ( usually in the afternoon) and some at the new house.
  
  Range of possible tasks: garden clearance, planting, cutting bushes, weaving a fence with branches, various constructions with palettes ( f.ex. a shelter for firewood and constructions to step on), paving ( = taking out the old pavemant and renew it), preperation of a carport ( = digging and bringíng stones/ gravel, which got found in the garden to the construction place, painting window frames/ garden hut/ chairs etc., repairing bycicles, sewing...

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  Languages spoken

  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  French: Intermediate
  Italian: Beginner
  Portuguese: Beginner

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  Accommodation

  At the moment the accomodation is in the new house, where I have several rooms. You will have your own room and a shared bathroom. Usually I provide breakfast and dinner and during the day sandwishes or cookies . I am not a kitchen maid, so we may prepare food together or it could be your turn ;-). i am not a vegeterian, but I rarely buy or eat meat. If you are vegan , I can go with it, but not totally.
  
  Sometimes there are more than one or two workaways here ( got 4 sleeping rooms+) so its also a place, where you may meet other workaways from all over the world. If you are a more introverted person, you are welcome, too. The house is huge and you have enough space to be by yourself and work by yourself.

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  What else ...

  The villages are in the center of Germany, all trains north-south stop here and stops of Flixbus are closeby. As my village is central, there are also options to get here by Blablacar. Some workaways took advantage of its central location to do short trips on their day-off to visit other places in Germany .
  I got several bicycles , which need to be done, uups ;-) and there are many biketrails close to my new house and hiking trails close to the old house in the Kellerwald.
  
  There is also a a little airport for gliders close to the house, s.t. they take someone for free. There are lakes for swimming and rivers for SUP and canoeing around.

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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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  Space for parking camper vans

  This host can provide space for campervans.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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