Join our daily family life and connect with the local community near Ravensburg, Germany

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  Description

  welcome travellers,
  We are a familily of four me (51) my husband ( 47) and my children 19 and 16.
  
  We live in a village near by Ravensburg ,easily reachable with the train, in a house with garden. and there is a field with some trees nearby.
  Also with us lives our cat ( Josephine ).
  Beside work we often go in to the forest or chill in the garden. We also like to go hiking,biking or canoeing. highlight of our area is the lake of Constance (also easy to reach with the train), in the forest a ravine, and many other things.
  
  please only write us if it`s ok for you to stay maximum 10 days. we are beginners in hosting because of that we thout it would be better like that.
  but we are expierienced in work and travell. so we wanted to try out the other side to.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Light gardening

  Creative DIY projects

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  Interests

  

  Vegetarian or vegan

  

  Sustainability

  

  Self development

  

  Pets

  

  Farming

  

  Charity work

  

  Writing

  

  Music

  

  Gardening

  

  Drawing & painting

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Carpentry

  

  Books

  

  Animals

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Winter sports

  

  Sailing / Boating

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Nature

  

  Mountain

  

  Hiking

  

  Fitness

  

  Dancing

  

  Cycling

  

  Camping

  

  Beach

  

  Adventure sports
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  you can connect with us and our community ( friends,neighbours,...) and I have a non profit meditation group where you can join in or do shamanic work with me for healing the earth. Inspite of that our children go to a charismaWe have a local festival wheretic youngster group to sing and they lead sometimes chldren groups for example in holiday. I lead the village library with a non profit group where you can help one time a month. On wednesday you can go in the evening with my husband to a hobby trail running group hiking a nearby mountain the Pfänder. On sunday we go to sometimes to church, if not we love to go skiing in winter, swiming in summer, hiking in the Alps or we have canoes and sometimes meet other families to go paddeling

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  Help

  You can help us with cooking, housekeeping, gardening,....depends on what time you have we would like to progress in different projects : in former times we had five chicken in the garden and now need to rebuild the chicken coop, on a piece of land we had four sheep and could restore the barn there, and in that piece of land we have about five walnut trees where we collect the nuts, and several pear and apple trees, and there are growing wild blackberries which we want to cut down, and when its time we make firewood of our old trees, and we have a construction trailer where you can stay on your own if you want to make experience like Huckleberry Finn : ) ,in our home garden there is a smaller stream where we look about the diversity of wild plants and animals

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  Languages

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

  This 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.
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  Accommodation

  our guest room is on the same floor to our rooms and we share the bathroom
  
  for breakfast we have Müsli or german bread with Marmelade=jam, what we like to cook on our homegrown fruits for example of plums, than we like to produce syrup of elderflower or currant, for meal we have glutenfree or , and vegan dishes, my husband likes traditional Spätzle, to make himself its local for our town and I prefer asiatic kitchen like Nasi goreng style, we cook together if possible but in every case we eat together , in the evening we decide between german Vesper its bread with cheese , german Schinken, Salad or if we take hot meal , for example in winter we have homemade Sauerkraut in a barrel , or in spring we love wild garlic in our garden then we call it FLammkuchen...so we can show you local=schwäbisch cooking or if you prefer we cook contintental food what you like most

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  What else ...

  we have the forest behind us, where you can go hiking or cycling and the city of Ravensburg in front of us to visit

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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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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  My animals / pets

  Josefine 1 year young

  plays a lot

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