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Help us refresh our home, painting and decorating in the Pyrenees, France

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    First off, we live in the city. There's just me and my wife Sylvie now, the children have more or less moved on. We live in a big house in the near suburbs with a garden. The first floor is let out to foreign students who study at the local University ... which is about 300 metres away. The top floor is a little apartment which was fitted out by different helpers over the past few years: from Poland, NZ, UK, America and China! Now it serves as a flat for our children when they are in town ... and for anyone who wants to come a spend a week with us helping with painting, decorating and maintenance tasks.

    Sylvie teaches philosophy at a high school in town. Simon is an estate agent who sells gites and B&Bs to refugees from the UK and America. We speak franglais mainly but are capable of speaking good French, good English and hesitant German.

    The work we do is simple: painting and decorating, clearing out garages and cellars: no technical skills needed apart from maybe using a hammer and a nail.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    What is there not to learn from a Franco-Irish family, steeped in a philosophical and legal background! On second thoughts, maybe we have more to learn from you...

  • Help

    Help

    This year we will be doing mainly painting and decorating help ... but with very little specialist knowledge required.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    French: Fluent
    German: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Two bedroomed apartment with kitchen, bathroom and wc. Meals (3 per day) are taken in our part of the house.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Toulouse is a little-known city in S France with a beautiful Renaissance centre, fine squares and public buildings, a lively riverside, thousands of good cafés, bars and restaurants and, above all, young people. It's the second university town in France with over 150,000 students. Our local metro station is just 7 minutes away and the bus-stop just 2 minutes.
    The village of Sentein, in the Ariège département of the Pyrenees, is a quiet mountain village with access to countless trails and walks and hikes in the high mountains. Helpers should have the opportunity of working in both these places.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 839943334162

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The image depicts a person crouched on the floor of a room, surrounded by tools and materials, with a door and windows visible in the background.
The image depicts a middle-aged couple posing for a photo, with the man on the left and the woman on the right, both smiling at the camera.
The image shows four people posing for a photo in front of a wall they have painted, with paint splatters on their clothes and the wall.

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