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Please stay 7-14 days.
Check out for train time tables to station Karbenning.
Availability in May:
Arrive May 8th or later.
Depart May 22nd or earlier.
Availability in June:
Arrive June 5th or later, leave June 22 nd.
Arrive June 26th or later.
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We are Vivi (39) and Nils (39) with the children Rebecka Leone (11) and Stig Love (10). We are a warm family who loves welcoming workawayers to our home.
We live in Karbenning, a village on the countryside in Bergslagen, the heart of Sweden, easily accessed by train (Stockholm - Karbenning 2hours).
The cross country skiing trails starts right from our back door.
We try to live our lives environmental friendly, why we eat a lot of vegetables, locally produced meat and try to not use our car too often.
We have a few rabbits and some chickens.
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About us:
Year 2022 we took a gap year and spent the year in Spain.
Year 2015 we travelled as workawayers in Spain and Belgium. It was a great experience to travel with children. Do you have a family? Bring them with you.
Nils works as a forester in the forests of Avesta, Dalecarlia. Vivi works with rural development.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We offer you Swedish culture and nature experience
* Use our bicycles and experience the countryside.
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️ Walk to the lake with chance to see beaver, beaver tracks
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️ Excursions and picnics in the nearby villages. We are surrounded by cultural history, iron mining since the Middle Ages (!)
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️ Social gatherings, meet other swedish people
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Tasks planned for 2023
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️ Painting facade of the house. (Scraping off paint first)
* Scraping and painting doors
* Gardening
Puhutko suomea? Olet erityisen tervetullut!
Other tasks
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️ Reparation in our 200 m2 wooden house built in 1909
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️ Renovate inside the guest house. Build a pentry. Do you know plumbing or carpentry?
* Renovate chicken pen and build better cages for our small animals.
* Renovate green houses.
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️ Weeding, gardening, cut grass, clean gravel from weeds. Prepare growing beds.
* Develop area surrounding duck pond.
It's important you like children, since we have two kids.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Finnish: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
French: Beginner
Accommodation
Shared accommodation in guesthouse with 2 single beds and toilet (WC). The guesthouse above the garage in the garden.
We have a sauna in the big house.
300 metres from train station.
500 metres from lake where you can have picnic, swim, fish, skii.
1 kilometre from the local community center with gym (Bygdegården, check out ).
What else ...
In the village there are many people engaged in different projects and the possibilities to take part of social gathering are many.
In the community centre there is a gym, gym hall, kindergarten and conference rooms. All is run by volunteers. Some evenings there are sports activites, movie nights, pop-up restaurants or knitting cafées.
In Karbenning there are small scale farms with cows, horses and sheep. There is a trail around the river where you can go for beaver safari.
You easily travel to Karbenning by train. Train stops in Avesta Krylbo (where you can change to Arlanda and Stockholm), Örebro, Fagersta, Skinnskatteberg, Gävle etc. Check for time table. Our station is "Karbenning".
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Excellent Broadband connection in the houses.
Space for parking camper vans
Parking and electricity is provided.
Can possibly accept pets
Small pets ok, but we don’t have stable for horses.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
5 hours a day 5 days a week
Feedback (21)
We highly recommend these two girls for any host who is looking for workawayers with a 100% positive attitude and and willingness to learn new things. Mara and Malin's laughter filled our house for three weeks. They also got along very well with the children.… read more
Directly from the beginning we got warmhearted included in the family and enjoyed every evenings family dinner and midday ice cream.
At the beginning of our time Nils presented us different task and we could… read more
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We highly recommend these two girls for any host who is looking for workawayers with a 100% positive attitude and and willingness to learn new things. Mara and Malin's laughter filled our house for three weeks. They also got along very well with the children.… read more
Directly from the beginning we got warmhearted included in the family and enjoyed every evenings family dinner and midday ice cream.
At the beginning of our time Nils presented us different task and we could… read more
They helped with painting, decorating, landscaping. Also with the kids and animals.
Thank you so much!
Thomas stayed for about 3 weeks in our home. He is a very easygoing, loveable, helpful person. It was a joy to have conversations with Thomas, since he has thoughts and been studying and reading lots about politics, history and topics going on in our society.
Since he is a power lifter, strenght is his… read more
The task we had was outdoor work inte the garden, mainly digging a duck pond in the back of our garden. Iulian is a hard working person. He likes clear intructions. He has a big heart and a good sense of humour.
Iulian är också mycket intelligent och duktig på att lära sig svenska. Efter bara kort tid… read more
Their family has shown me what a "happy family" means and what "welcoming hosts" means. They are very intelligent, thoughtful and helpful people. I actually feel sad for leaving, yet the show must go on.
They were not just hosts, but friends and… read more
Thank you very much for all help Kate!
Danielle is a trustworthy and an experienced workawayer. She is very good at taking care of children. One can notice she is a true teacher.
She is good at coming up with ideas of what she can work with. She is artistic and when she carries out a job she finishes it. She is creative.
Danielle has integrity. She is… read more
Christina took care of our son while we had no pre school for him during February. Both our children loved her. She is a responsible, warm, kind hearted person, with a cool music taste.
She also helped us take care of the household, did some painting and reparation.… read more
Thank you for everything! It allowed us to spend wonderful holidays in family. We shared the Swedish lifestyle, we learned about your school community project, we had a great time with the kids going everyday to the lake, interesting discussions, etc.
We know that it is not easy to find time when we have kids and we are waiting… read more
We also think that the fact they have been hosting workawayers themselves makes them the perfect guests.
Thank you for all you did in order to help us with gardening and painting jobs. We… read more
Thank you also for the nice chats we had. It was a pleasure to teach you Swedish. Good student. Du talar mycket bra svenska.
Peter is a hard working, clever person with a great sense of humour.
Welcome back!
Vivi and Nils
Viví And Nisse are like brothers to me,rebecka And stig my swedish nephews.The kids are lovely!!!
Viví And I are Friends since 2006.It was her idea for me to do 1st workaway And start at her place.
I had the opportunity to teach spanish And Dancing lindyhop at Karbenning community.
And that was a very… read more
She has a wide experience from traveling all over Europe and she always finds a way to break the language barrier.
Our children loves her!
Eva fits… read more
Thank you very much for everything! // Vivi and Nils
Ezequiel stayed one month with our family and helped out with painting. He had a tiresome task which he fulfilled without complaining, to scrape off loose paint and repaint the guesthouse.
He loves Scandinavia and is… read more
I spend three weeks at the family and felt welcome from the first moment on! They are very warmhearted and openminded and gave me the feeling of being part of their family for this time. I am still thinking a lot of my time there, where we had good conversations, laughs, sauna and swimmingcenter trips. I worked in the greenhouse, with the… read more
Thank you so much for your help in our home. You took care of our little animals and you took care of our children when we needed a hand. When working on the refurbishing of the historical sofa you really put your heart into the mission. You wanted to complete the job and you wanted to do a good job. You succeeded!
Thank you so much… read more
We truly recommend Charles for any workaway activities. In our home he was helping out with building and maintenance.
Thank you very much for your help in our home Charles! The children also really loved you.
With love, Vivi and Nils
Best of luck to the both of you.
Sebastian is very curious and keen to learn new things. Always with an open mind and a great attitude towards his work as well as in social life. We really enjoyed having him as our gest.
He is a great ambassador for workaway as he made a lot of good contact with the villagers.… read more
Work: The work was varied and fair ( isolation of the chickenhouse, gardenwork, painting, babysitting, creative work ( buliding a vintage radio)). The working time is flexible timewise. Vivi and Nils are interested in your opinion and thank you after work. Each work is the workawayer´s own project and so you work… read more
Thanks for your feedback. We are sorry you are sad about us cancelling. We understood it as if you had other hosts as plan B. We wish you will be pleased with your workaway experience at the other host! Best regards, Vivi and Nils
Nathalie is a hard working woman whom we can recommend to other hosts. As a host you should be interested in cooking vegan food, or at least buying her the ingredients so she can prepare something good herself. Otherwise it's not fun to work for food ...
During… read more
So charming, joyful and sporty. Always with a smile and helping out with any kind of work.
Especially good at crafts, artistic. Also the perfect baby sitter.
Thank you so much for your workaway help!
Thank you so much for your time spent in Norberg with our family. You are a smart, helpful, kind,positive and lovely person.
We really wish we could come to Regensburg to make workaway at your freeshop and other things within the Transition movement.
See you!
You were a great help and great company. We really wish you would come back to Norberg some day to some more workaway or other stuff.
With love, Vivi and Nils with kids
Rebecka is a lovely girl. We… read more
Although, after just a few days Adriana went on a weekend trip to some relatives and did not return. She did not inform us or answer until a week afterwards. Maybe she is shy or uncertain to speak up. She told us she left… read more
When we had set the premise about work and spare time, our stay together worked well. In the end of the stay we had different ideas of what was required regarding the workload, and we… read more
They worked with renovating the windows at the community center and they are really ambitious and skilled. We can strongly recommend them.
