Help with gardening and general maintenance in a lovely, little village in the Haut-Marne, France

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: 1 week or less

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  • Description

    Description

    Since 7 years, we, that's Patrick and Marcelle, live in a lovely, little village in the Haut- Marne. Originally we are Belgian and Dutch. We wanted a more meaningful and more peaceful life for ourselfs.
    Together with our dog and cat we now live an easy , simple life , back to basics. Our way of life is inspired by the Buddhism . we are warm, friendly and hospitable people.
    a little bit self-supporting, together with our neighbours ,we're feeling very well in the beautiful nature of the french country side.
    Last year we bought a farm and we are renovating it we need some help with that also.
    Gardening work cleaning the barns and so on.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    You, as a traveller, can enjoy a cooking workshop [i am a former chef] . we put into practice yoga q-gong and meditation so you can participate if you want to . we use herbes that we find in nature for making tea, salads and medical purposes. we like to share our knowledge about those things. Besides that patrick is a life coach you might benefit of that. you can also practise several languages such as german, french dutch and english. We like art painting, singing , playing the guitar and we like to share all of it.

  • Help

    Help

    we need some help with our vegetable garden and other things like woodsawing ( with a chainsaw ) and painting.
    some general maintenance. In and around our house. Renovating some things.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Dutch: Fluent
    French: Intermediate

    This host offers a language exchange
    We speak french german english we would like to learn better french

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Our house is a french cottage about 200 years old. Upstairs we have a nice guest room. (24 m2 ) 2 beds ( 1x 1p , 1x2p ) and a nice little corner with easy chairs and a table , and a wardrobe . ( see foto). .our house has very authentic elements . We share our bathroom with our guests. Food is very good and fresh because we have our own vegetable garden, meat and eggs from the neighbours. And above all Patrick is a former "chef de cuisine". We are not vegeterians how ever its possible to eat vegi.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    There is a swimmingpool in the village. Sometimes it gets hot in the summer. For cultural things you can go to langres to visit the cathedral and musea and walk around the ancient city wall. Dijon has a very old midieval city center
    our village is surrounded by forests so beautiful walks are always possible.
    Its about 30km from our place to langres ,dijon is 65 km there are however no buses. You have to hitch-hike or we could go together.

  • 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

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 379861288193

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