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

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  2026 

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  • Description

    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 are the lake of Constance (also easy to reach with the train), in the forest a ravine, and many other things.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Language practice
    Light gardening
    Creative DIY projects
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • Interests

    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
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    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 charismatic youngster group to sing and they lead sometimes chldren groups for example in holiday. We have a local festival where we play drum roll and 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

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    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

  • 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.

  • Accommodation

    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

  • What else ...

    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

  • 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.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    One

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

    Josefine 1 year young

    plays a lot

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