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Bonjour à toutes et à tous!
We are a french family, Christian (68), Rosie (58) and Gabrielle (21) with 5 delightful pets: Jingle, Ricky, Pluton and Phoebe, our enthusiastic dogs and Riri our delightful cat. Now our daughter works and live in Toulouse and comes back home from time to time to visit her ooooold parents for the week-end.
We used to travel world wide and now have settled down in a 19th century old farm in the beautiful countryside of Pamiers, Ariège.
I work as a healer and Christian is a data consultant. Christian plays guitar and piano. I like to model clay and paint, Gabrielle loves to draw.
We are 'bons vivants' as we say in french. Easy to meet, we appreciate good company and love foreigners!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
As we are surrounded by some lovely hills, our place is very peacefull. Pamiers is 15' by car, Foix 20' and Toulouse 1 hour. No public transportation at our village.
There are various festivals in the area (music, cultural, medieval),
many prehistoric painted caves to explore and lots of cathare castles to visit.
Sporting activities are very easy: many walking and biking ways around, a Compostelle path in front of the house. Moutains are close too.
Bienvenue à la maison!
Help
Our farm is mostly renovated. However, we have many ongoing projects: fence work in the horses fields, clear up the stables, renovate the poultry house, some gardening to embellish the premisses.
Could be done as well : light painting, washing walls and ceilings, light eco-building work, rubing-down shutters, doors, cleaning out the pond.
By the time you come, we don't know exactly in which of these projects we would be involved in.
Professional skills are appreciated but enthusiastic, conscientious people that pay attention to details, able to work independantly as well as in a team are very much welcome.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Spanish: IntermediateThis 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
We would be happy to welcome 1 or 2 workawayers in good physical condition.
We provide the meals (vegetarian food is possible), a comfortable bedroom, internet facilities, and bikes.
We would be pleased to help you with your french.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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Karolina is a nice young woman, very well educated and always willing to help around. She gets very well with animals: our dogs just loved her. She mainly worked in our garden , scratched a wall as a remodeling task, bottled some wine and some… read more
Su esposa también es una gran persona, muy amable y gentil con el que también tuve la fortuna de compartir tiempo.
Los 4… read more
William est… read more
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Karolina is a nice young woman, very well educated and always willing to help around. She gets very well with animals: our dogs just loved her. She mainly worked in our garden , scratched a wall as a remodeling task, bottled some wine and some… read more
Su esposa también es una gran persona, muy amable y gentil con el que también tuve la fortuna de compartir tiempo.
Los 4… read more
William est… read more
The beautiful country side of Ariége is a perfect place to recharge from busy life… read more
These angels are always ready for any kind of work, always willing to help and doing it very well, precise, tidy, work always much better realised than I expected it to be done.… read more
They are efficient at work, strong workers, clean, no need to explain a lot, have good ideas to help and work is well… read more
All the family wish you a 2018 full of bright skies and heartworming smiles!!
We hope everything is fine in your life and with your projects. We miss you since we met at home as we had such pleasure to have you with us.
Love from Rosine, Christian, Lili, dogs and cats.
This is a good option for volunteers who want to spend a few days in calm and tranquility away from busy life. Ideal to have own transport (motorcycle, car) as there is no… read more
He is very easygoing, positive and has a good sense of humour: it was like he had always been with us,… read more
About the job, I took care of cutting the hedge. After a working day, we always had delicious meals.… read more
It was really nice to stay with Rosine, Lilli and Chris and all their pets! They are a friendly family who likes country life, healthy food and desserts! We had a great time at cooking and eating :-) and had some very interesting conversations...Chris surprised me with a fish and calamari bbq on the… read more
