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Last replied
27 Feb 2024
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Description
I live with my family in a small village near lake Balaton.(14km) We have tree small boy ( 10, 7 and 1 year old) smart boys. We are part of a community which started to build an ecovillage in this beautiful place. We have 3 small bio garden, and one bigger for the community.
I work with local wool, making carpets, hats, fairy skirts etc.
I love to grows herbs and do natural medicine which i learn 9 years in Budapest and in china ( acupuncture)
In our little village there are some stable where is possibility of horse riding. There is a small airport nearby where you can skydive. Lake Balaton is very close, you can go to chill down after the work.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Handcraft,self sustainable life, permaculture, natural medicine, feltmaking, biogardening, eco-building, partner-acrobatics, growing fruit tree, animal keeping, feltmaking, natural woodwork
Projects involving children
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Help
You can help us in our daily tasks, cooking, gardening, woodwork, playing with the kids. Helping with felt making, prepare the wool, in the textile workshop.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Yurt with a skylight - well isolated home yurt, with oven inside. It gets hot at the daytime in the summer.
We have one warm lunch together, in noon time - nice vegetarian food.
For breakfast and dinner we bake wholegrain bread, and is self service from the fridge what i fill up every week. You can pick fresh bio seasonal vegetables and friuts in our garden.
The weekend are more busy with the ecovillage team work, we have big lunch together and sometime campfire.
What else ...
Lake Balaton is very close. There are huge forests around the village and an ancient earth stronghold in the deep forest. There is a legendary cave of the rouges in the forest. There is a possibility of horse riding.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
5 hours a day, 5 days a week maximum
Feedback (7)
Thank you !
Julie
Thank you again! Greetings Olivia
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Thank you !
Julie
Thank you again! Greetings Olivia
― Oscar Wilde
With these words ahead i may say that i've lived.
I really like their little village and all the people around, but not everyone can speak english.
Sometimes you just meet people. Oh & then they start to speak in hungarian for a while & you're just… read more
Beautiful couple, and person as well.
I learn a lot from you!
Thank You!
Cecilia
We spent 2 weeks with krisztian and Cecilia. In those 2 weeks we learnt a lot. Gardening, juggling, animal care, They taught us how to preform on stage, we were lucky enough to be able to preform with them twice, this was an… read more
You are an amaising person, i hope you keep your big smile on you hole life, it makes evrything easier.
Best wishies!
Cecilia and Gora
The other couple in the same time, same place feel excellent, and the want to come back.
Only bad think for them was your bad energy - both of them getting sick after you arrive and keep complaining all day.
I hope you find your better place in the world for you.
Good wishes
Cecilia and Gora
I shared a beautiful but extremely hot yurt with another couple.
Dogs barking within 20 feet on and off most of the night, every night.
No meals other than a basic midday lunch provided (usually soup, pasta). No fruit available at all. Didn't tell me they don't offer much and there is no… read more
