Become a member of our family living in Lacroix-Barrez, France

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  Description

  *Please be sure you can come and read carefully our profile before contacting us. We really need help and we need people who are interested in cooking, cleaning and gardening. Most of all, we need people who are really involved in the exchange and interested to share some nice moments with us. Thanks you!*.
  
  Hello,
  We are a family of 4: Laëtitia and Léo (31 years old), Olivia (2 years old) and Vangus (dog, 2 years old).
  
  We are renovating a farmhouse that we bought in November 2024. Mainly, Leo works from Monday to Friday and Laëtitia on Wednesdays and Saturdays but as we work for ourselves, we can manage our timetable. We want to share the most family moments possible and offer to Olivia and Vangus some quality time. Today, we need help to maintain a balanced daily life, to allow us some time to rest and for other activities such as working on our renovation project. The idea of welcoming a fifth member into our family seems to us to be connected to our family values (taking time to be together, sharing our know-how, meeting us around tasty meals of fresh and local products, investing us in renovation, gardening and creating a cosy place). We are looking for someone to help us with the daily tasks of the house (cleaning, cooking) and gardening (3 hours a day). We are looking for a person for 1 month minimum to have the time to get used. It's important you are able to consider Olivia and Vangus around.
  
  We live in Valon at Lacroix-Barrez (12600), down to a castle from the 12th century, surrounded by forests. The place offers different daily experiences throughout the year: quiet and solitude, tourists come some weekends and especially in summer. Six hiking trails from the house including two marked. 5min drive from the village heart with two restaurants, a relay post and a grocery store. 15 minutes by car from two small towns with all necessaries: Mur-de-Barrez or St-Amans-des-Cots, 45 minutes from Aurillac (the largest city around) and around 1 hour from beautiful villages such as Espalion and Conques. Notice that we don’t have wifi, you have to manage your connection if you need one (good connection available). We are really happy to have found this place both relaxing and interesting to meet people and to spend nice moments with the neighbours.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Light gardening

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  Interests

  

  Farming

  

  Charity work

  

  Pets

  

  Photography

  

  Sustainability

  

  Events & social

  

  Culture

  

  Writing

  

  Plant care

  

  Music

  

  Languages

  

  Gardening

  

  Drawing & painting

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Carpentry

  

  Books

  

  Architecture

  

  Art & design

  

  Animals

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Team sports

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Nature

  

  Mountain

  

  Hiking

  

  Dancing

  

  Adventure sports
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  During your stay, you will be a member of our family. We want to share quality moments with you too! and we will consider your needs into our organization.
  
  We are in renovation so you can discover this dynamic. We will be happy to pass on our acquired skills (especially those of Leo) and those that we discover worktime after worktime.
  
  We made unacademic choices (such as: home birth, physiological bearing, considering Olivia as a full person, respect the preferences of Vangus, work up to our needs, go towards autonomy without be isolated). We will gladly share with you the joys, the facilities, the surprises and the difficulties of these choices.
  
  We will be happy to initiate you, if you wish. In our project (place of crafts, tourist accommodation, lodge and cabins, artistic and acrobatic residencies), an embroidery shop will be installed where Léo will sell some objects in wood as well. Later (when Laëtitia could work during all day long), she will do ceramics again. As a kinesiologist, she can of course answer your questions but she do not want to enter into a training dynamic.
  
  There are nice proposals on site (especially during summer) that allow to build links with locals and the tourists as well.
  
  For us, Workaway is a chance to meet warm-hearted people, to continue to travel in a different way and to build relationships. Also to allow Olivia to discover other ways of doing, thinking, cooking and exploring.

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  Help

  For daily tasks:
  - helping with the house care (do the dishes, clean the different spaces of the houses depending on a calendar). We like our house to be cleaned and tidied.
  - cooking (help in the kitchen and sometimes if you want you could cook on your own). We can share our recipes with you or discover yours.
  For theses two tasks, you have to do it carefully in order we don’t have nothing to check after you (for example when you cut the vegetables, you have a look after you). For us is evident but it has not be the case for all the volunteers welcomed.
  
  A typical day.
  8:15am: breakfast.
  9:00am-12am: gardening.
  12am: lunchtime and dishes.
  13:00-15:30pm: free time.
  15:30-18:30pm: 2 hours to help us cooking or 1hour cooking and 1hour cleaning.
  18:30-18:45pm: dinner, dishes and cleaning the cooking space.
  
  Notice that dishes and cleaning are shared. It is an informative schedule to give you an idea of our days. When we are at home and available, we like to spend time together to create some links by doing tasks (gardening with you) or activities (like playing board games, embroidering or writing).
  
  Some days or during weekends, it would be different and more flexible. We could go sometimes around to visit new places or to go to places we already like, you would be free and more than welcome to join.
  
  We will adjust the organisation together. It is not about replacing us. It's about feeling more comfortable thanks to your presence without being rushed.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  French: Fluent
  English: Intermediate
  Spanish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  We would prefer to welcome someone who has correct bases in French. If this is not your case but everything else in our listing is ok for you, still contact us. We like to help people learning French and we are happy to improve our English.
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  Accommodation

  You will stay in a room (there is two rooms available) in the house that has not been renovated. Everything is cleaned so that despite the current state, you could feel good. There is an electric heater available. We will eat in the little house where we are currently staying, morning, noon and evening (we provide three meals - snacks are not included). Notice that meal times are precious to us. If you eat vegetarian, vegan, lactose-free and/or gluten-free, it is possible to adapt the meals.

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  What else ...

  During your free time, you can of course enjoy the setting: walks, hikes, visit the castle, go to the river. There is no public transport from the house, we can drop you to the center of the village or further (sometimes) if we can. There is a lot to visit in Aveyron! If you wish to travel in the rest of France, we can accompany you to the train station in Aurillac (for example, night train to Paris from 38€).

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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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  Space for parking camper vans

  You can park around with a beautiful view.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  My animals / pets

  

  Vangus

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