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We have especaly two projects from jan-june
from jan-april is the boat
from jan-june building an apatment in our basment
Other stuff is helping in/around the house etc..
We are a family of 5, mother and father and 3 boys, age 25, 22 and 12 years.
We are interested in 1 or 2 persons, if you are a family of more then 2 persons you are welcome to take contact, if two persons you need to share the bedroom.
The surroundings are good and quiet.
We live a 200 meter from the sea and we have pleasure equipment for being on the sea and in the sea.
We have a sailing yacht that we hopefully will sail a lot with.
Because we are a very open family there can be a lot of guests visiting our home.
Because this is a WorkAway, we have seen that the best results for bouth experince the country and work, is when we have people staying longer then 3 weeks, this is also our normal minimum of staying with us.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live as Faroese and close to the nature.
Boat and water is a big part of our life.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
The tasks will change a little bit depending on what time of year you will stay.
If you feel like "I can't do that or that" don't hesitate to tell us what you can do, there is only one thing that is very important "the driving licence" for a normal car
The age of our WorkAwayer is important 25+ years
This is because of our daily task that changes a lot during the year.
Helping with the garden is depends on your skills, we are making a new garden or refreshing the one that is left to nature.
Other: Helping Jens with his work.
All the jobs will be fitted for the person's skills.
Languages
Languages spoken
Danish: Fluent
English: Fluent
Icelandic: Fluent
Norwegian: Fluent
German: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
German and Spanish
Accommodation
If you are two together you need so share the bedroom.
What else ...
There is possibility to use all of the families belongings in your free time (as long as it is safe and legal) car, bikes, kajak, fishing equipment...
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Our internet is good. We have powerfull WIFI around the house with two AccessPoints We also have RJ45 plugins if needed and we have 10Gb intern in the house. We have had 3 boys with one gaming PC each and yes Jens knows quit alot about network and computer tech. :)
Space for parking camper vans
Depending on the size, it might be parked in a parkingplace ap. 200-300m away
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
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I ended up bold enough to knit my first sweater, taking a few showers of sea water around Nolsoy, hearding sheep on the steepest mountain you could imagine, learning the fabulous Faroese way of making a proper gravy, hiking almost everywhere, and even being able to prononce a… read more
Excellent cultural exchange, loved what I did for my host and family and I would like to say and hopefully vice versa. Jens and Rigmor are great hosts. Both husband and wife are easy going, flexible, trusting, open and good communicators. To me, no one job is too small or big and I… read more
When our workaway is family related by working in the house where everybody is living, we felt that Marek cept him self a bit out of the way.
Marek is good wit conversations we had som very nice talks on the boattrips where he was asking and he had also been doing his homework about… read more
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I ended up bold enough to knit my first sweater, taking a few showers of sea water around Nolsoy, hearding sheep on the steepest mountain you could imagine, learning the fabulous Faroese way of making a proper gravy, hiking almost everywhere, and even being able to prononce a… read more
Excellent cultural exchange, loved what I did for my host and family and I would like to say and hopefully vice versa. Jens and Rigmor are great hosts. Both husband and wife are easy going, flexible, trusting, open and good communicators. To me, no one job is too small or big and I… read more
When our workaway is family related by working in the house where everybody is living, we felt that Marek cept him self a bit out of the way.
Marek is good wit conversations we had som very nice talks on the boattrips where he was asking and he had also been doing his homework about… read more
With her lovely son Fraser they did the perfect couple while he did the talking and she the working.
The little boy was never in the way for anything extremely well behaved and slept as a stone from 8 o’clock in the evening to 8 o’clock in the morning.
Lots of love… read more
She saw what was needed for helping us, the household was just done in seconds, the house was cleaned every single day, the pets wher realygood taking car of, and not to forget her humor, we didn’t know if we should cry or laugh, an amazing young woman.
As a “babysitter” to our youngest son was also amazing Min and… read more
The jobs were easy and straightforward. Cleaning the house, loading the dishwasher,… read more
Rigmor and his family are fantastic people, really open-minded. It is important for them to understand each person's culture, and you really feel it.
It was really nice to share some moments with them and with… read more
My Workaway tasks included to clean up around the kitchen and living room daily, do the laundry and walk Alex the dog. On top of that there will be occasional grocery shopping, driving family members to work or… read more
Out side was terrible wether but we got some miner things don there to.
If you want to have an open and funny person around you Spela is perfect for that.
All the best
The time during the winter can be a bit low of work, but these two where enjoying the quietness and relaxing, taking amazing pictures etc.
Good workawayers and we can highly recommend them
Jens is a skilled sailor, we helped him clean the beautiful family boat and we spent 2 wonderful days fishing in the Vestmanna bay!
The area around Vestmanna is beautiful, just… read more
Very nice young man with good and positive energy.
All the best Ed and always welcome back :)
All the family behaved with me very good, and they helped and understood me more than they should. So... thousands of thanks. I will never forget.
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It was a great exsperience. We felt like they all were a part of our family. ( and still are ;))
We newer had to tell them what to do, they could easily see what had to be done and just did it.
They worked more… read more
You did not need to tell him what to do after a time he know the "dailys" and did much more then we could expect from the "contract" of workaway.
He did also manage well on his own, boat, car, kajak ... he could handle them all and after a little bit of learning he got around on the ocean… read more
It was my first experience as a workaway and probably my best experience ever!! I spent three month with Jens and Rigmor family and they show me a lot of things, I try almost everything is possible, hiking, boating, kniting, hunting and enjoying my faroes life!! It's a really really friendly and generous family! It was really difficult to… read more
Thank… read more
Everything was great they did also do things "by them self" that we did not ask them to do.
A very good experience.
Thank you very much and have a very good journey
I met Elien and Liam on the boat whom were their official workawayers. We were invited several diners and somehow ended up staying with this amazing family. Very… read more
