Join our homestead and learn about each others cultures in Limousin, France

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  Description

  Hi there!
  
  We are Karolien and Jordi, a cheerful couple in our 30s from Belgium, now living in the beautiful, rural Limousin region of France. Together with our enthusiastic 8-year-old twins (a boy and a girl), we enjoy the serene nature that surrounds us every day and the real French life on the countryside.
  
  Are you the one who can help our children to learn English or help improve all of our French? Do you want to help us out in our garden or help renovate our old farmhouse? Then we warmly invite you to join us in our home in Limousin. We look forward to meeting you and having a fantastic time together!
  
  🌞
  Karolien, Jordi, and the twins

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Babysitting and creative play

  Help around the house
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  Interests

  

  Videography

  

  Charity work

  

  Fashion or beauty

  

  Culture

  

  Self development

  

  Farming

  

  Pets

  

  Vegetarian or vegan

  

  Sustainability

  

  Animals

  

  Photography

  

  Languages

  

  Gardening

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Blogging

  

  Drawing & painting

  

  Plant care

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Art & design

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Cycling

  

  Hiking

  

  Nature
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We love connecting with people with different backgrounds than us. We like to learn from other cultures.
  
  We are both makers who love creativity. Karolien is a professional jewelry artist and also worked as a vegetable-garden-teacher in schools. Jordi is an electrician and loves to cook.
  Currently, we're renovating our old stone house and barns. Doing a lot of repointing of the old walls for example.
  
  Additionally, we continue to make exciting plans for our permaculture garden.
  We often go berry picking and make jam or do other activities like that.
  
  As nature lovers, we love spending time outdoors, and we warmly welcome someone who shares this passion.
  During summer, we often go to some of the lakes nearby to swim and rest at the beach.
  
  We also love visiting medieval towns/cities in the region, you're welcome to join us on our trips if you'd like.
  
  We are a board-playing-family 🙃
  
  We are always learning new skills and my (Karolien) greatest passion is to share what I've learned with others.
  If there are specific skills you'd like to learn, feel free to ask us if that's something we could teach you while you're staying with us.

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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 are looking for a kind, fun and motivated Workaway volunteer who can help us around while we are creating our homestead.
  In the upcoming months we are:
  -planting trees and shrubs
  -building the structure for a vegetable garden
  -removing brambles evenrywhere
  -re-pointing old stone walls (exterieur)
  -do the interior walls with chaux-chanvre (lime-hemp?) in one of the barns
  - do flooring in that barn
  
  We want to improve our French
  We speak Dutch (Flemish) at home, Jordi and I speak basic French and fluent English, so communication will not be an issue!

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Dutch: Fluent
  French: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  We want to improve our FRENCH, we can help you improve Dutch (Flemish). We can both speak English.
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  Accommodation

  We make sure you have a safe place to sleep, if the weather is nice, that will probably be in a tent (we have all the equipment). If the weather doesn't allow camping, we'll make sure you have a place indoors.
  
  Our diet is mostly plant-based, but we are open to all dietary preferences, so feel free to bring your own eating habits – there's absolutely no judgment here!
  
  We'll prepare food together, you can join us for every meal.

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  What else ...

  The nearest train station is in "Le Dorat" we can pick you up at this station and bring you back here after your stay.
  We could also pick you up at La Souterraine (with direct train-connection to Paris).
  We have a bike available for you to explore the area a bit.
  
  no smokers
  no drugs
  no violence (of course)

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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

  Fiber Internet!

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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