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hej, we're a family with 2 kids, originally from switzerland, came to sweden for a sabbatical more than 10 years ago and got stuck, living on the countryside in our little paradise we created over the past years at the dead end of a gravel road, trying to keep live slow and simple, hosting many visitors to fulfill our social needs...
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Help around the house
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
welcome to take a close look on our try to slow down life, escape from some of the compulsions of western living, and building the place of our dreams with our own hands. get an insight in swedish and swiss culture in just one place. enjoy the quiet and beautiful natural surrounding here. watch an autodidact build a house and a self-sustaining garden...
if you're in to music teach us some of your songs and learn some of ours, if you're in to games we're in...
we eat everything and like to invest time in proper and healthy food preparation but try hard to avoid dogmas, although gunnar developed a fetish during the last years trying to maximize the part of what he grew himself. both vegetarians and karnivors very welcome. vegans just as welcome, but they might have to help with the cooking...
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Help
update summer 2024:
we only have space for workawayers 30.6.-14.7.
gabi will be working abroad, so just gunnar and the kids in the house.
help to do:
- muck out the sheephouse
- moving the dry firewood into the shed
- fighting weeds in the pasture
- if you have the skills & passion i could even use some help with creating our homepage
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
one of the guesthouses or room in the house
What else ...
awesome wild forest just behind the house (with lots of blueberries and mushrooms), about 5km to the sea (we have bicycles), various lakes in the surrounding (we have a sup and a boat), table tennis, access to sauna and hot tub nearby. bad public transport, just about 2 busses in and out per day. 15km to the next trainstation, we can pick you up by car.
in general we prefer rather short visits up to max 2 weeks.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
100mb/s up&down fiber / wifi
Space for parking camper vans
enough space for any vehicle
Can possibly accept pets
we have a cat, chicken and sheep, any animal guest shall not eat these;-)
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Anfang Mai 2022 haben wir zwei Wochen bei Gabi & Gunnar verbracht, die wie im Flug vergangen sind, da wir uns von Anfang an direkt willkommen und integriert gefühlt haben!
Wir hatten unter der Woche immer ein paar… read more
How to start? This wonderful time in beautiful Sweden will forever stay in my memories as a beautiful, warm, diverse and fun first workaway experience. The first two weeks, we stayed with Gunnar, Mio, Mali and all the animals and the… read more
how wrong i was :-)
they worked on our property with a diligence and dedication as if it was theirs and left it in a so much better appearance! heike even has a lot of expert… read more
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Anfang Mai 2022 haben wir zwei Wochen bei Gabi & Gunnar verbracht, die wie im Flug vergangen sind, da wir uns von Anfang an direkt willkommen und integriert gefühlt haben!
Wir hatten unter der Woche immer ein paar… read more
How to start? This wonderful time in beautiful Sweden will forever stay in my memories as a beautiful, warm, diverse and fun first workaway experience. The first two weeks, we stayed with Gunnar, Mio, Mali and all the animals and the… read more
how wrong i was :-)
they worked on our property with a diligence and dedication as if it was theirs and left it in a so much better appearance! heike even has a lot of expert… read more
The house is beautiful and the garden and nature around is amazing.
We worked in the garden cleaning and cuting wood and we could always choose the work we wanted to do and had a lot of freedom.
The way of life we… read more
farewell and good luck on the road, welcome back!
they offered us every benefit we could possibly think of to receive from workawaying guests.
independent diligent workers, great humorous & honest company, the patientness to become temporary reference persons… read more
Now, what is about them that makes them so megacool? First of all,… read more
cosa ay fato? :-)
hugs g&g
