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Experience rural life in scenic countryside near Linz, Austria

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If you are not an EU Citizen and planning to visit Austria to work, volunteer or study, YOU WILL NEED THE CORRECT VISA. To find out more information please contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.

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  2026 

 Min stay requested: 1 month or more

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  • Description

    Description

    ROOMS WITH BREAKFAST FOR STUDENTS FOR A STAY OF AT LEAST TWO MONTHS

    Me (fem. 66) and a friend (male) we share a house (spatially divided) where we live a modestly life, apart from a village in the countryside in quiet scenery, next to a forest.
    With us live some gees, pigeons, chickens and cats.

    For your request, please manifest your intended duration of stay together with the date.
    I'm pleased to send further detailed information.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Light gardening
    Creative DIY projects
    Animal Care
    Help around the house
    Light maintenance
    House & pet sitting
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Environmental protection primarily through personal commitment (behavioral change) rather than through technological solutions is the topic.

    Interested parties can acquire about gardening and how to use, to process, to manufacture, to ferment, to preserv -and to eat-, what is available in the garden or on the meadow for meals, medicine, cosmetics, detergents....
    In addition to that you can learn how to to renovate and beautify a house, a garden by making something out of nothing. And therefore, how to avoid any stuff what effects costs and waste (and advertisements:-).

    Furthermore, I am always pleased to delve into new spheres with you in many topics.
    My interests are widely scattered and include art in all its forms and from all eras, history, mountains, nutrition as medicine....and much more.
    I'm also interested in the sciences, hoping someone can teach me quantum mathematics and astrophysics ;-)

  • Help

    Help

    Support with general tasks to maintain a house, a garden and my lovely poultry.
    Help is variable and depends to the season, to the weather, to our atmosphere.... ;-)
    To get my wild garden a bit under control, manual and gardening skills required.
    It's a small hobby garden that nevertheless yields a lot: Apples, pears, plums, cherries, walnuts, hazelnuts, mirabelle plums, peaches, mulberries, raspberries, currants, red currants, gooseberries, and grapes grow here.
    Vegetables: radishes, tomatoes, beets, carrots, zucchini, beans, peas, cabbage, many herbs and teas.
    And my favorite: wild herbs.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Italian: Beginner

    This 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

    Accommodation

    Accommodation is 1 room for your own, with good, new bedding. Wooden furnitures (No IKEA!).

    I offer (organic) homemade, fresh meals. Mainley plant based. Fruits, vegetables, eggs...from our own mini-farm. Milk products from an organic farm nearby.
    Consideration for nutritition intolerances, religious and ethical reasons.
    In addition to that, there is no extra cooking, nor self cooking for guests.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    You can think of your stay here as a base camp from which to organize your travels. Austria has eight neighboring countries that are easily and affordably accessible.
    For doing excursions of more days, I can be helpful for your adventures.

    Here we are in a hilly, quiet landscape, you can enjoy scenery pure from the doorstep by walking, hiking, biking.....
    The famous Danube cycle path also close-by. Bicycles are available for this purpose.

    The Ars Electronica Museum (ARS), as well as other museums in Linz, are worth a visit. There's also an opera house and many theaters, as well as numerous venues for contemporary art, counterculture, and the alternative scene. Many festivals and exhibitions are free.
    Next trainstatition: 2,5 wonderful kilometers.

  • 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

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    One

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

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