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Description
We are a family f 4 living on a remote farm in a fantastic scenery.
Our living is based on sheep farming, and the lambing season is coming quite soon.
We could use some helping hands in many different assignments in and outside when we are busy with the sheep.
If someone could be doing some gardening, easy maintenance, ome cooking and simlpy filling in, we would be very happy!
You are normally fit, easygoing, eating normally Norwegian food and willing to spend some weeks with us.
You'll have your own room and meals with us.
It's quite simple to get to our place, but its not London...
Express boat once a day north/south, an buses twice a day from Bodø wich is the closest city with railway and an air field.
Travelling in Norway is expencive so bring your student id if you have one. It is normally 50% off the normal fare.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will get lots of experiences as part of our family and community.
Our place is far from any city in rural Norway.
Our next door neighbours are 2km away in all directions so its quite quiet here.
We find it a good reason for a slow lifestyle. At the same time you can choose from a great number of activities.
The wheather can sometime be really bad and be regulating what's possible to do outside. Spring and summer is normally nice.
The scenery is facinating and exotic. Daylight all summer, (day and night) and short days in the winter.
We live by Norwegian traditions and language, but are communicating in English or some German too.
Projects involving children
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Help
Workaway has been important for our boys experience in learning English.
We expect you to take part in the normal householding, and its nice if you somtime can do some cooking.
If you want to be able to go places more than around the farm, you can get around the island in a couple hours by bike.
We have different equipment for hiking, but you need proper shoes/ boots and outdoor clothes. We can have snow very late, but it normally melts away quickly.
We dont expect you to join our business work, and can't afford to offer payed work.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Norwegian: Fluent
German: BeginnerThis 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
Your own room in our house. Meals with the family.
We produce and eat meat and want you to join our meals, and eat our food.
We dont do double cooking, or eating separately.
It's nice if you have some dish you'd like to share too.
We eat a lot of home baked bread, and local food. Mostly from local fishing, hunting and of course from the sheep.
We want you to feel as a member of the family during the stay.
What else ...
Public transportation are 2 hours from Bodø with ¨Hurtigbåt¨ speedferry/ express boat, or 4-5 hours by bus.
Our farm is remote, 2 km to next neighbour both ways along the road. A mountain on one side and a fjord on the other.
Spectacular if you like the kind of scenery.
We have bikes and skies for lending.
We have boats too if you have the skills for it.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have an exellent wifi connection and a broad-band in our house.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (10)
It was the best summer in many years and really hot. However Antoine and Onn were working hard.
First they removed all the weed from our growing potatoes and carrots, then they cleaned a big area of building waste.
They even burnt the wood piece by piece in the… read more
It's been a great summer for our first workaway experience. There is no shortage of work and our host has plenty of dreams and ideas for transforming and renovating the buildings on his estate. Hard work, in the open air, with the advantage of never having felt pressure in the expectations from our host and results… read more
She was a great help in the house and did all her tasks quickly, well and nicely. Always with a big smile!
She realky had a lot of experience in many ways despite her young age.
We wish her all the best, and will strongly recommend her as a guest in your house!
Jan-Erik and his family are kind and friendly people. We had a lot of fun at their place. The work was nice and due to the fact that it was mostly outside we could enjoy the beauty of the island a lot. After some guidance we did some work on our own but also worked… read more
It was an nice experience, and we are recommending these nice persons to other hosts.
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It was the best summer in many years and really hot. However Antoine and Onn were working hard.
First they removed all the weed from our growing potatoes and carrots, then they cleaned a big area of building waste.
They even burnt the wood piece by piece in the… read more
It's been a great summer for our first workaway experience. There is no shortage of work and our host has plenty of dreams and ideas for transforming and renovating the buildings on his estate. Hard work, in the open air, with the advantage of never having felt pressure in the expectations from our host and results… read more
She was a great help in the house and did all her tasks quickly, well and nicely. Always with a big smile!
She realky had a lot of experience in many ways despite her young age.
We wish her all the best, and will strongly recommend her as a guest in your house!
Jan-Erik and his family are kind and friendly people. We had a lot of fun at their place. The work was nice and due to the fact that it was mostly outside we could enjoy the beauty of the island a lot. After some guidance we did some work on our own but also worked… read more
It was an nice experience, and we are recommending these nice persons to other hosts.
It was an nice experience, and we are recommending these nice persons for other hosts.
He came here from France by train and bike..
He helped with herding sheep, and putting up a lot of fences. He removed loads of muck too, but he was a big smile all the time.
Thomas is probably the happiest person I ever met, and I'm really recommending him to other hosts!
Smiling and ready to help all the time.
Highly recommened.
They were really fit, and spent many hours running after sheep. Always with a smile and a nice word or two.
We had a good communication, and managed to discuss a lot of topics in different and interesting ways. Always with a good humor and a big… read more
Time went away quickly even when we were much more inside the houses than expected.
Weather was horrible some days, but we spent a lot of hours with the sheep feeding and tending them inside the barn. We also managed to get them sheared during her stay.
Geisy didnt have any experience in farming, but was… read more
They are skilled and effective, and have the ability to see what needs to be done. We had some hobbies In common like skiing and cooking… read more
They are easy going people and know what needs to be done in a household.
Our kids loved them too. They kept them busy… read more
Her profile says she's easygoing and nice, and that's not lying at all! I felt like I've been knowing her for ever from her first day here.
We've been talking a lot on many subject, and even though she's young she matched me all the time. She has a… read more
She's easygoing and got nice relations to all of us, including the… read more
They have been always open what kind of work I wanted to do. There are so many different kinds of work. I've been a lot in the barn with the sheep because it was lambing time but did also some boat cleaning, painting...
Going for a walk with the dogs was always… read more
We arrived there in January at night, and and when woke up in morning there was just a feeble light, but was enough to realize that we was surronded by the most beautiful landscape we've ever seen.
really, it is a breathtaking view, but the best part was hospitality of Vivian, Jan-Erik and their 3 sons.
They… read more
