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Update 20/08/22
Hi everyone;
Thanks to everyone for your willingness to participate to the creation and running of the festival, but we are already plenty at home and i can’t welcome and host anymore people.
Next year by mid- July we will do another festival, likely to be grander than the upcoming one 🥳✨💫☀️🥳.
All the best.
Andre.
Hi everyone! 😃
It’s just a year now that I arrived here in the Pyrenees to develop a beautiful and peaceful livingspace and open it to open-minded people driven by the beauty of life. This dream came so truely good and intense that we are now a small group of people living in a socialized manner (not a community).
The household is a old famous property in nature with no close neighbours.
Besides sharing a beautiful place with beautiful people we started creating thematic parties, socio-cultural events together with the beautiful neigbouring community. Ideas and dreams keep on flowing and we need helping hands to help us achieving the next event to come... our new mini-festivals „The Archonautes”. Are you ready to meet the challenge entering this dynamic and helping us to boost up our creations? :)
So for practicalities the 500 m2 house is partly rented for long-term residents (6 people) and other part is a private house where I live with my girlfriend Hanna... my first workawayer :)The community in the region is one of the reasons why I decided to settle here: very open minded people, intercultural, aiming at living on earth in a respectful and coherent way... and of course going along with personal development, well-being and sharing universal love ✨. I arrived here 2 years ago with my van and it’s Workaway once again that allowed me discovering this new world. When I got keys of the house from a helper I became a host. And in the summertime it is difficult to choose – parties every weekend, plenty touristic attractions, markets and a close-by lake to go swimming. Thou everything needs to be done by car since the first village is by 12 minutes driving.
The aim of the festival is to gather people for creativity, food, workshops and of course music. There will be daytime activities for both children and adults, evening for dancing by latin and eventually electronic music. The event will take place in 26.-28.-th of August and it will be the part-two of the series of events to come in the future. The first event took place on 25th of June and was a fundriser for the festival in August and welcomed around 350 people.
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
In the area, you will be meeting with several nationalities and cultures; I’m half French and half Argentinian and have been traveling the world ... and I love sharing my personal experience. At home you will hear French, English and Spanish. The Brit community is quite important in the area, but as well from some other European countries; if you are keen in speaking and learning Spanish, you will have the chance then by sharing with some good Argentinian friends too...And in the summertime it is difficult to choose – parties every weekend, plenty touristic attractions, markets and a close-by lake to go swimming.
Help
The festival to come would require great support for improving the existing infrastructures (construction of dry toilets/showers, electricity works, clearing up of the woods and especially great support needed for the decoration team). Workload-wise I will ask for some flexibility since there are going to be some intense moments of preparations and furthermore we’ll need support to run the show (running the bar, food, entrance, parking, dismantling the venue) during the festival but then of course the space and the fridge will be proportionately available to chill and relax.
We are looking for positive, fun, hard- and team-working people sometimes some activities have to be done autonomously but surely a lot of social moments will be shared. By rule meals are always shared together but exceptions might arise. We are looking for 3 to 4 volunteers (including a couple for the private room) from 10th/15th of august until the beginning of September. If you deeply feel you’re up for it be most welcome but please be reliable with your commitments thank you sign and a smile. No pets and I apologize for the potential vegans to come but I’d rather not accept since the food management would become too complicated and I aim at treating my guest with good food.
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Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
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Accommodation
Accommodation wise it’s going to be busy (friends and volunteers coming to support) but for sure we always keep a certain living standard at home and moreover food is a daily treat (specially for non-vegetarians ;)). For accommodating workawayers we try to keep a decent standard of living conditions. There is a private room with toilets and bathroom for couples or a caravan or a worse case a nice tent for the short stays.
What else ...
The area offers multiple outdoors activities such as hiking, horse riding, swimming/canoeing/sailing in the nearby lake of Montbel; natural hot springs nearby too. A bit further out there are beautiful gorges for the hot sunny days, a lot of concerts and private events organized here and there.... and soon here in my new place.
The Mediterranean Sea is two hours away and the first ski resorts one hour away from here... but any destination from home requires a transport mean, since the property is isolated on top of a hill and first public transport is 15 to 30 min away; of course I’ll can drive you when you desire move in the area.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
A lot of outside space is available, in open fields, in woods... or under a hangar for more shelter.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (6)
I was looking for a skilled carpenter to help setting up an event at home, and fortunately Christophe showed up and performed a wonderful work! Skilled, open minded, friendly, team player and respectful of the environment he was into; thank you so much Christophe.
I really hope to see you/him again ...… read more
She is just a great lively and open minded person very eager to exchange, tell stories and moreover very positive person.
She had just spent a few days at home, and her help has been significant!😁🙏🏼.
Very eager to give a hand here and there and not afraid to perform any kind of tasks!
I very much recommend… read more
Andre is a very kind guy, very interesting and always worried about how i was… read more
I was so overwhelmed at some moment that I didn’t answer his request in Workaway, nevertheless, I believe following his own instinct, he managed to find his way around to my place and arrived with his own means.... and once the festival was ongoing, we met directly at home!😁✨💫.
I’m so grateful, he arrived in a moment I… read more
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I was looking for a skilled carpenter to help setting up an event at home, and fortunately Christophe showed up and performed a wonderful work! Skilled, open minded, friendly, team player and respectful of the environment he was into; thank you so much Christophe.
I really hope to see you/him again ...… read more
She is just a great lively and open minded person very eager to exchange, tell stories and moreover very positive person.
She had just spent a few days at home, and her help has been significant!😁🙏🏼.
Very eager to give a hand here and there and not afraid to perform any kind of tasks!
I very much recommend… read more
Andre is a very kind guy, very interesting and always worried about how i was… read more
I was so overwhelmed at some moment that I didn’t answer his request in Workaway, nevertheless, I believe following his own instinct, he managed to find his way around to my place and arrived with his own means.... and once the festival was ongoing, we met directly at home!😁✨💫.
I’m so grateful, he arrived in a moment I… read more
They both are good cooks and really open minded.
They have been very flexible with me regarding accommodation and I really appreciated that!
Very happy to have met you both and I’m very happy too to recommend any host to… read more
Anita has such a great and positive energy, she is amazing!
She came home to support setting up a festival, and she has been of great help for performing a wide diversity of activities.... including DIY, constructions and clearing up woods!
Super open minded and positive attitude, very fun to work with!
As well I have to tell you: she is… read more
She is a stunning chef, that not only is capable of preparing beautiful meals for a lot of people, but she is great in managing and handling everything about the kitchen; she is good in managing teams as well!
But not only this, she loves to be hands on and… read more
She observes and acts.... making her very autonomous and super helpful; she is not just waiting to have a task assigned, she… read more
She has a natural attitude to see things, understand and proactively do something about it, and this is much appreciated!
Very respectful person and very friendly too.
She knows about a lot of things and is really very helping.
All the best to you and hope to see you around next year.
Andre.
She managed to arrived by her own means with her very nice friend, and we had some very good moments; she showed a lot of flexibility for the accommodation.... and she managed herself in a very autonomous… read more
Very grateful of his overall help and especially Ián would always perform this additional tasks that were not requested! Thanks so much man.
Besides Ian is very flexible and autonomous, and this happened to be really great during his stay over here.
Hope to see you around next year… read more
I’m so glad about his support for the project; he does incredible art work and this added even more to the overall magic of the event.
Thank you so much and very greatful for your help.
Hope to see you around next year man.
All the best.
Andre.
While struggling with construction works to be done in short time, Zack showed up with all his motivation, competencies and great skills to help us building and doing loads of stuff to prepare a festival at home!!! So many thanks.
Besides his technical knowledge as an architect,… read more
We came at a stressful (but exiting!) time just under 2 weeks before the festival, so there was a lot of hard work to be done as you can imagine. Although it was quite a bit more than the… read more
The chores and working hours very were flexible, despite the fact that Andre himself is super hardworking. His vision about his place was inspiring, very often he asked about our ideas and he… read more
We spent a lot of time talking and exchanging on different topics,… read more
It was a pleasure to get to know you and especially your hospitality.
I enjoyed working for you, the atmosphere and the beautiful panorama contributed to being motivated, but your cooking skills also contributed.
See you next time my friend.
All the best!
Giuseppe
I’m going to write this feedback in English 😁. Giuseppe has been such a great help here at home! He arrived in a moment where there was a lot of work to do, and with his professional skills he did a great job and really supported me in moving on with the works! Thank you so much Pepe!!!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼.
We had great times laughing together!… read more
