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My next destination:
Bali, Indonesia - from Dec 2024 until Jan 2025 View all
Description
Hi! I'm Charlotte (67 years old, but don't be put off by my age! I'm energetic, youngish and fun).
I'm a writer (among others: children's cookbooks and parenting book) and children and youth coach.
For seventeen years I have been the manager of a children's restaurant in Amsterdam, so working with kids and cooking are two of my specialties.
My three grown-up children are all working.
I'm partly retired and that's why I want to travel and work as a volunteer.
I love to read books, cook, work outside, help with plans and projects (brainstorm, coming up with ideas, realizing ideas), decorate, stencil, knit, sew, craft, sing and play the guitar. I like to do a variety of things during the day. So if you need somebody to garden all day, or clean your house, I'm not the person you are looking for.
All my life I have travelled, mainly to meet people and learn about their way of life and cultures and I also have done a lot of voluntary work in East and West Africa, Bali and the Netherlands. That's what I want to find in Workaway: exchanging our cultures, getting to know you, other volunteers and exchanging ideas and values.
You can count on me as a hardworking person, sociable and I love to be on myself (so you don't have to feel responsible to entertain me all the time!) or with others.
I love doing all kinds of odd jobs, also tasks I never did before, because I like learning new skills. And I'm very quick in settling myself in, seeing what is necessary to do, taking initiative but also following instructions.
Look at my website to get an impression what I do and what I'm like: www.charlotteborggreve.nl Sorry only in Dutch!
Or read my blog about my travels with Workaway: https://kookologie.blogspot.com/2019/03/my-travels-with-workaway.html
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Indonesian: Beginner
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Eco Projects
Some knowledge of:
Hospitality/Tourism
Able to teach about:
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Charity Work
Languages
Art Projects
Teaching
More details about your skills
Cooking and writing cookbooks
I love to cook all kinds of food. I used to have a children's restaurant where I cooked with children. So I love to cook with your kid(s).
In Sri Lanka where I Workawayed at an Ayurveda retreat, I wrote together with other volunteers a cookbook full of Sri Lankan recipes. The Mahagedara cookbook.
Sewing and crafting
I can sew and knit, make jewellery and paint, and stencil. In Uganda I painted a schoolroom with stencils and in Burkina Faso a bar, and in Italy doors, so if you want to have a funny room or wall, I can bring my stencils and make one.
I also did a lot of sewing: In South Africa I Workawayed on a farm and sewed aprons and pillows, In France I made bags and pillows, in Samos I stitched covers for a bench by hand. It took me a week!
Ordening
I love ordening and helping you to bring order in your house. Or hotel. I did that in France and left my hosts happy with the result. In Burkina Faso I did all kinds of ordening in a hotel, I even made a book with all the trees of the garden!
Raising funds and do charity work
I have my own Association and helped to raise money for a school in Uganda and a waterproject. Also in Sri Lanka I raised money for a nice bookproject at the school I worked in and helped a handicapped boy with buying a wheelchair.
So if you have a nice project and I can help....
Age
68
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
NoSpecial dietary requirements
No
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21 Aug 2024
Left by host (Join us at our beautiful ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
I invited Charlotte to join our team because of a previous review that I read on this platform that highly complimented her skills making curtains! I need curtains, and she expertly guided me through the process of buying fabric and getting organized for her arrival. She says she's an amateur, but her attention to detail is sine qua non, and she… read more
(Excellent
)
20 Aug 2024
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Join us at our beautiful ...)
Imagine a romantic castle (Chateau) in France in the middle of undulating fields and nice villages, with a generous and lovely American couple, and with a group of fun and nice Workawayers from all over the world.... Yes that is the place and I was so privileged to be part of the fun and fam.
I had two lovely weeks among these amazing people while… read more
I had two lovely weeks among these amazing people while… read more
(Excellent
)
29 Nov 2023
Left by host (Be a playmate for my boys in ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
she cooked healthy homemade family dishes, not fancy, like pasta and vegetable soup, but that usually you want for the home food, right?
so helpful in the kitchen, of course! she has experience!
don't filter people with their ages, haha as she sais! haha
reliable enough to leave my 5yrs old on bicycle with her. fit, healthy!
so helpful in the kitchen, of course! she has experience!
don't filter people with their ages, haha as she sais! haha
reliable enough to leave my 5yrs old on bicycle with her. fit, healthy!
(Excellent
)
21 Oct 2023
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Be a playmate for my boys in ...)
I had a nice time with Jesus, Keik en their boys.
I stayed with them for two weeks and we had interesting talks.
My tasks were; I cooked and cleaned the kitchen, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher and helped with hanging and folding laundry. I biked in the morning with their youngest son to school: I wanted to take the quiet roads and he tried to… read more
I stayed with them for two weeks and we had interesting talks.
My tasks were; I cooked and cleaned the kitchen, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher and helped with hanging and folding laundry. I biked in the morning with their youngest son to school: I wanted to take the quiet roads and he tried to… read more
(Excellent
)
28 Aug 2023
Left by host (Welcoming native English or ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte is a lovely women, very creative and experienced. She is great at handcrafting cool things with the kids. She fitted very well in the family and found always how to collaborate in the best way. She is a lovely baker as well!, We enjoyed her desserts very much! Thanks Charlotte fro everything! 😘
(Excellent
)
19 Jul 2023
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Welcoming native English or ...)
Ainhoa and Stani and their two bundles of energy Luan and Mael, welcomed me in their very nice Mallorcan home. Every morning I woke up by the cicadas and birds. They have a lovely big garden, created to have kids and grown-ups around and they are very generous in sharing with others. I felt immediately at home. I had to pick up the kids from camp… read more
(Excellent
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21 Aug 2024
Left by host (Join us at our beautiful ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
I invited Charlotte to join our team because of a previous review that I read on this platform that highly complimented her skills making curtains! I need curtains, and she expertly guided me through the process of buying fabric and getting organized for her arrival. She says she's an amateur, but her attention to detail is sine qua non, and she… read more
(Excellent)
20 Aug 2024
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Join us at our beautiful ...)
Imagine a romantic castle (Chateau) in France in the middle of undulating fields and nice villages, with a generous and lovely American couple, and with a group of fun and nice Workawayers from all over the world.... Yes that is the place and I was so privileged to be part of the fun and fam.
I had two lovely weeks among these amazing people while… read more
I had two lovely weeks among these amazing people while… read more
(Excellent)
29 Nov 2023
Left by host (Be a playmate for my boys in ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
she cooked healthy homemade family dishes, not fancy, like pasta and vegetable soup, but that usually you want for the home food, right?
so helpful in the kitchen, of course! she has experience!
don't filter people with their ages, haha as she sais! haha
reliable enough to leave my 5yrs old on bicycle with her. fit, healthy!
so helpful in the kitchen, of course! she has experience!
don't filter people with their ages, haha as she sais! haha
reliable enough to leave my 5yrs old on bicycle with her. fit, healthy!
(Excellent)
21 Oct 2023
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Be a playmate for my boys in ...)
I had a nice time with Jesus, Keik en their boys.
I stayed with them for two weeks and we had interesting talks.
My tasks were; I cooked and cleaned the kitchen, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher and helped with hanging and folding laundry. I biked in the morning with their youngest son to school: I wanted to take the quiet roads and he tried to… read more
I stayed with them for two weeks and we had interesting talks.
My tasks were; I cooked and cleaned the kitchen, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher and helped with hanging and folding laundry. I biked in the morning with their youngest son to school: I wanted to take the quiet roads and he tried to… read more
(Excellent)
28 Aug 2023
Left by host (Welcoming native English or ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte is a lovely women, very creative and experienced. She is great at handcrafting cool things with the kids. She fitted very well in the family and found always how to collaborate in the best way. She is a lovely baker as well!, We enjoyed her desserts very much! Thanks Charlotte fro everything! 😘
(Excellent)
19 Jul 2023
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Welcoming native English or ...)
Ainhoa and Stani and their two bundles of energy Luan and Mael, welcomed me in their very nice Mallorcan home. Every morning I woke up by the cicadas and birds. They have a lovely big garden, created to have kids and grown-ups around and they are very generous in sharing with others. I felt immediately at home. I had to pick up the kids from camp… read more
(Excellent)
9 May 2023
Left by host for Workawayer (Charlotte)
We had the most wonderful and relaxed week with Charlotte. She brought some amazing skills to our house, stencilling our old doors with a design we developed togther, and making a cushion and undersink curtain from some vintage fabric I'd had for ages but didn't know what to do with. She also made incredible scones! Charlotte's skills are… read more
(Excellent)
4 May 2023
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Gardening and vegetable ...)
If I could give my hosts, Simon and Angel, ten stars I would do that for sure!
We had so much fun, interesting talks, had very nice food made by Angel and Simon always enthusiastic about my decorations. I could make beautiful walks in the surroundings, they brought me to Asti, to look around, we went for aperitivos and tea with friends and… read more
We had so much fun, interesting talks, had very nice food made by Angel and Simon always enthusiastic about my decorations. I could make beautiful walks in the surroundings, they brought me to Asti, to look around, we went for aperitivos and tea with friends and… read more
(Excellent)
4 May 2023
Left by host (Help with gardening on a farm ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
The week with Charlotte was really nice. Since the first moment she was very gentle and soon contribute actively in the intense (but funny) management of the girls. Marta loved her so at the first sight and they spent lot of time outside and reading books. Charlotte was as well really patient with us, with our routine and with her to do list. She… read more
(Excellent)
30 Apr 2023
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help with gardening on a farm ...)
Valentina and Davide are the dream Italians: very warm, welcoming and heartfelt. They are a lovely family with their two small daughters who are loved by everybody of their extended family. I had to order and clean a barn and did some needlework, cooked and played with the kids. They took me to a gallery and to a baptism and we had a few beautiful… read more
(Excellent)
18 Aug 2022
Left by host (Help with DIY projects at our ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte came to us for one week. She was very flexible on the dates as we had an event we had to attend. Charlotte is a lovely, intelligent woman who is very fit and sprightly, who worked hard and was able to look after herself in the afternoons as she took herself off for walks when we didn’t have anything else planned. She is a skilled… read more
(Excellent)
4 Aug 2022
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help with DIY projects at our ...)
I had a very nice week at Mary-Jo's and Jonathans castle.
There were a few sewing projects which I liked very much. One of them was making curtains of Thai silk that brought Mary-Jo and Jonathan from their stay in Thailand.
They took me to walks, villages, an open air concert and a Vide-Grenier and every day after work I made beautiful walks in… read more
There were a few sewing projects which I liked very much. One of them was making curtains of Thai silk that brought Mary-Jo and Jonathan from their stay in Thailand.
They took me to walks, villages, an open air concert and a Vide-Grenier and every day after work I made beautiful walks in… read more
(Excellent)
13 May 2022
Left by host (Help me with my house in ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte is a very nice person. She liked our place with the animals and the garden very much.
She cooked indian food and stiched covers for our sofa. It looks very nice.
Then we went for nice walks with the dogs, explore new places in Samos.
Thank you very much for everything.
Please come again to us.
She cooked indian food and stiched covers for our sofa. It looks very nice.
Then we went for nice walks with the dogs, explore new places in Samos.
Thank you very much for everything.
Please come again to us.
(Excellent)
13 May 2022
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help me with my house in ...)
I had a nice time at Samos. I handstitched pillowcases for a bench and I cleaned some rooms. Michael is very friendly and welcoming and took me to interesting places in Samos. We made some beautiful walks with the dogs and he took me to nice restaurants, sometimes with life music.
The work was good and his house is only a few minutes from Kokkari,… read more
The work was good and his house is only a few minutes from Kokkari,… read more
(Excellent)
3 Aug 2021
Left by host for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte was such a delight to have around and I feel very lucky to have been her host. Hard working and self motivated she's easy to talk to and is happy to get on with tasks. Charlotte is charming and cultured with lots of fascinating travel and life experience. She is kind, knowledgeable and generous and I really enjoyed our interesting… read more
(Excellent)
1 Aug 2021
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Gardening and DIY help in the ...)
I had a wonderful week at Linda's. I loved the view from the house of meandering fields and the small village, the conversations, the nice food Linda cooked and the walks and visits to Cahors and smaller places in the neighborhood Linda took me. I painted the kitchen and diningroom wall(s). and sanded and painted the garden chairs and table a… read more
(Excellent)
20 Sep 2020
Left by host (Join us in our musical home ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte was a joy to have around and also a really good five-star worker. We had many interesting discussions over meals and we parted company on really good terms. We hope to meet up again, either here where she will be welcome back, or else in her home city of Amsterdam.
(Excellent)
20 Aug 2020
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Join us in our musical home ...)
It was just what I needed: a perfectly bliss time at David and Sundara’s beautiful Maison du Maître in Ventenac. They were generous hosts with cultural and musical exchange which made my stay even more perfect. I loved the walks along the Canal du Midi halfway my work in the morning. We had nice food and wine, talks, listened and made music, swam… read more
(Excellent)
23 Aug 2020
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Appreciate the countryside on ...)
I spend the best week ever at Steve’s en Penny’s farm in Normandy. I could do a lot of different things which I love: baking, cleaning, painting, knitting and sewing. So never a dull moment! The farm is very peaceful at the end of a lane with the cows, sheep, cats, dogs, turkeys, hens and geese and last but not least two lovely people that spoiled… read more
(Excellent)
20 Aug 2020
Left by host (Appreciate the countryside on ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Our experience with Charlotte was so positive for everyone she is so upbeat about life & offers such wisdom, a wealth of knowledge which she openly shares with such interest of the countries she has visited, very witty & nothing was any trouble she slotted in with us all, we had another workaway arrive while she was with us & they worked with each… read more
(Excellent)
8 Apr 2020
Left by host (Help with an educational ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte joined us when Sri Lanka was about to get the first few victims of Coronavirus. So, this was a difficult time for all of us. But she took the big risk of volunteering when most others were leaving Sri Lanka.
Charlotte was a very good teacher and also a great humanitarian. She went beyond teaching by donating a wheelchair to a student… read more
Charlotte was a very good teacher and also a great humanitarian. She went beyond teaching by donating a wheelchair to a student… read more
(Excellent)
4 Apr 2020
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help with an educational ...)
My host in Sri Lanka cancelled and luckily he put me in contact with Nanda. Nanda immediately took action and found me a lovely school in Ralapanawa with a very nice principal Hemantha and dedicated teachers. I helped the children practice their english which was a lot of fun. They loved throwing a ball and count, or play bingo, sing and practice… read more
(Excellent)
29 Mar 2020
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help us to improve our award ...)
Just before everything changed in the world because of Corona, I had a lovely time in Sigiriya at the Wellness retreat together with a nice group of volunteers. I made the cookbook with Lakmali's recipes and Frida, a very talented graphic designer and also a volunteer. It was that perfect coincidence that we all were there together and in two and… read more
(Excellent)
24 Oct 2019
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help me care for neglected ...)
The house is big, very impressive, beautiful and very tastfully furnished. It has a nice, big garden and I could sit, after my afternoonwalk, in the big room with a beautiful view on the gardens and sea.
I had a comfortable room with bathroom and when I was cold (there is no heating in the house) I could sit in the big kitchen with the Aga always… read more
I had a comfortable room with bathroom and when I was cold (there is no heating in the house) I could sit in the big kitchen with the Aga always… read more
(Good)
26 May 2019
Left by host (Help me cultivate various ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
According to our agreement, Charlotte stayed in my house from 28th April till 18th May. During this period, I got to know every day more and more of her personality: always punctual, respectful, works very well, loving of all aspects of nature ( from animals to plants ), and last but not least, the life. I spent a very beautiful time with her.… read more
(Excellent)
22 May 2019
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help me cultivate various ...)
I helped in Giorgio's garden for three weeks in may. The work is fair: 4 ½ hours of weeding, getting rid of the brambles, and fixing the bananapalms. One day we made jam of the loquats and one day when it was raining, I cleaned the kitchen. It was lovely to work outside in the beautiful garden and then sit on the terrace with a glass of wine and a… read more
(Excellent)
9 Feb 2019
Left by host (Help at our non-profit social ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte me, my family and community in Mutoto was blessed hosting you at the time when we need the right person to boost our energies in serving humanity. You showed us unexpected great love in the school and you left a life long mark stone on our memories by your kind support to the remote Golden Hill Academy school in Mutoto village.
Please… read more
Please… read more
(Excellent)
8 Feb 2019
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help at our non-profit social ...)
I had a lovely time in Mutoto with Kate and Jeremiah. Together with other vulunteers we accomplished a lot: new furniture for the new school, a (natural) playground, books to read and thanks to a donation we could start a waterproject, so that the schoolchildren can wash their hands and drink filtered water.
It was nice waking up at the sound of… read more
It was nice waking up at the sound of… read more
(Excellent)
25 Oct 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Great workawayer,
She is full of wisdom, energy, and enthusiasm.
There are few proactive persons in the world, and Charlotte is one of them, we appreciate her help in the house, and the fields.
10/10 would host again.
She is full of wisdom, energy, and enthusiasm.
There are few proactive persons in the world, and Charlotte is one of them, we appreciate her help in the house, and the fields.
10/10 would host again.
(Excellent)
24 Oct 2018
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help on a organic farm in ...)
I loved this Workaway in Japan! The work is fair, but manual labour so you have to be strong and positive, because you might be on your knees every day for 4 1/2 hours. We were with a nice group of volunteers in a comforatble house with a beautiful Tatamiroom where the women slept. Yuda, who looks after the volunteers and the work, is a very good… read more
(Excellent)
15 Mar 2017
Left by host (Help welcome on our ...) for Workawayer (Charlotte)
Charlotte was absolutely wonderful to host. She was very helpful and interested in everything we were doing in our jobs but also in our way of living. She was great to help with our guests as her personality is so friendly and warm that makes the guests feel welcome immediately. She also can play guitar very well and sang lovely songs for our… read more
(Excellent)
14 Mar 2017
Left by Workawayer (Charlotte) for host
(Help welcome on our ...)
I had a wonderful three weeks at the farm. I loved the morningwalks with the dogs in the beautiful nature of the Karoo. I did a lot of different jobs: helping with the cooking and serving the guests. Trying new recipes, ordening cupboards and sewing: new aprons, and repairing the sheets. The work was fine, during the day I could take time off to… read more
(Excellent)