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Hello! We are a couple Rūta, Gytis, my boyfriend, and our dog Pūkis living in countryside surrounded by forests and beautiful river near by.
We are living here for two years, now our third summer awaits us! We would love to get some help in the garden, renovating the house or furniture, building something new.
Our house is almost 100 years old and we live a really simple and humble life here. We have no running water inside the house, but we do just fine.:) We shower outside, have our canister-tap-bucket system for cleaning dishes and have a compostable toilet.
We love arts, music, travelling, hitchhiking and so much more.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live in a splendid place surrounded by a forest and a river with amazing cliffs. You can hike around a lot, go on bicycle trips, or go swimming and canoeing (several routes available). I also plan to organize some retreats in my place, and we quite often travel to festivals or any other events, so we could take you with us! I'm interested in jewellery, sewing, dyeing with plants, gardening, and herbalism. Gytis is interested in music (he plays bass, accordion, guitar), electronics engineering, and photography. We can teach you something or tell you anything you are interested in. :)
Help
Time is flexible - you can choose which time of the day you would like to help us. Help in the garden includes weeding, harvesting, and preserving the harvest, watering, mowing the grass, etc. Foraging plants for teas or dyeing (I'm interested in dyeing with plants). Help in the house involves cleaning, doing the dishes, bringing water, and cooking. You can also assist with building an outside shower or other building projects, renovating old furniture, sanding, painting, etc.
Languages
Languages spoken
Lithuanian: Fluent
English: Intermediate
Russian: BeginnerThis 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
It's a big room, approximately half of our house; we will live in another half. We have lots of mattresses to share and can provide linen and towels. It's also possible to live outside in tents; we have two big ones. Shared kitchen, compostable toilet, and a river a 10-minute walk away. We usually use some little or big baths outside to wash ourselves properly, or we go to a flat in the nearest village. There's no running water in our house. Come and live the experience with us!
Meals are included - we are flexitarians, so we do not cook meat and rarely eat it. We've noticed we don't want to eat that much in the warmer season, so we usually eat twice a day (around 10-11 AM and 4-6 PM). This way, we can also intermittent fast. If this doesn't suit you, we always try to make more so there are leftovers available at any time, or we can make something earlier. Everyone eats according to their needs.
What else ...
Transport: The nearest village Upninkai with a shop is 4-5 km away, Jonava town is 30 km, and both Vilnius and Kaunas are about an hour away from us with a car. We can give bicycles, and if needed we can give you a ride. I myself usually hitchhike if needed, but if you don't prefer it, there is busses and trains from Jonava.
Local sights: Dubiai mound, Sukiniai mound, historical Vepriai village, several springs, forests, river cliffs...
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have wifi, and it works pretty ok. :) The speed : Download ~ 20.66 Mbps, Upload ~ 1.18 Mbps. I believe it could vary depending on the time of the day or the itself :)
Space for parking camper vans
Big garden, lots of space to choose. There is a plot there we have electricity plug in available outside as well. :)
Can possibly accept pets
We have a very friendly 10 years old dog :) He is still very active when going for walks. No cats allowed here.. And you'll need some protection from ticks for your dog, because we live next to forest
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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They are very very friendly they did everything for me to be as satisfied as possible.
I swam every day in the river, walked Pukis. We picked up… read more
Stephane's positive attitude and eagerness to help with various tasks around the house made my first workaway experience as a host a breeze.… read more
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They are very very friendly they did everything for me to be as satisfied as possible.
I swam every day in the river, walked Pukis. We picked up… read more
Stephane's positive attitude and eagerness to help with various tasks around the house made my first workaway experience as a host a breeze.… read more
Throughout my stay, I helped forage plums (a whole lot of them, may I add), proceed them, and then went on… read more
