Zuzana & Jan

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Are you looking for some extra help during Xmas and New Year? Jan and the twins (16) are free from 21.12.-5.1. Feel free to contact us!
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Together for 20 years, best friends and working collegues, proud mum and dad to three great boys, nature lovers, who cherish their freedom and are living their dreams .... that´s all us! 😊

Being enterpreneurs enables us to take few months off each year and travel, which we enjoy so much! And being able to help a bit, meet interesting people and get to know diferent cultures, that´s the "icing on the cake".

We are happy to help with any meaningful work inside or out and are not afraid to get our hands dirty.

Our elder sons (the twins) are already independent and busy studying at the moment, so they can travel just during school holidays. Fir the rest of the year it would be only me (Zuzana), my husband Jan and our youngest son Martin (2014) comming and helping 🙂

A LITTLE MORE ABOUT US:

-- at home, in Czech republic, we run a nice family business - we create and organise educational and leisure time activities like sporting events, workshops, hikes and treasure hunts for both school groups and tourists.

-- since our twentees, we have been round various HOSPITALITY ☕🍻🥘 related businesses and have run our own bed and breakfast 🏘 for the past 9 years.
We are always keen to see some new ways and share ideas 👍This is the work we really enjoy!

--- all of us are keen gardeners 👨‍🌾 (and are doing our best in growing and preserving our own vegetables and fruits 🍒🍎🍐🍓🫐🥒🥕🥔🧅🧄🌽) - we can help with yours too! 😊

-- we are a sporty family 😊 and our son Martin loves especialy footbal and skiing (both crosscountry and downhill)

--- we all like hiking, love to play board games and enjoy a book by the fireplace

--- since 2016, we have been homeschooling 🧑‍🏫our kids and it works very well just with 1-2 hours during the day

--- we love traveling, meeting new people and exploring different cultures - so far, we have been round Europe, worked in Bermuda, spent few months in Asia and northern Africa and couple of months in New Zealand 😊 and there is still so much to see!

--- we have been on a few workaways already - working on a permaculture farm in Thailand, harvesting and preserving tons of veggies and fruits in Switzerland, gardening, tree trimming, painting and dogwalking in Portugal, helping with house renovations in french Provence, clearing a beautiful land in Italy, destilling " Schnaps" from turnips in Austria and working on a farm in Norway ... and we liked it all very much.

So excited where we end up this time....! 😊

PS: we have a little, friendly, clean dog Ohlson, who would be traveling with us
Interests
Van life
Winter sports
Self development
Sustainability
Plant care
Pets
DIY & crafts
Cooking & food
Beach
Animals
Farming
Nature
Sailing / Boating
Outdoor activities
Cycling
Books
Camping
Languages
Mountain
Gardening
Charity work
Hiking
Events & social
Languages
Languages spoken
Czech: Fluent
English: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Spanish: Beginner
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Some knowledge of:
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Animal Care
Helping with Computers/ Internet
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Able to teach about:
Babysitting and creative play
Being an elderly companion
General Maintenance
Helping around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Languages
Teaching
More details about your skills
At home, we have a big garden and an old house, which we just recently renovated (and gained some very practical skills 😉). So if there is any maintenance that needs to be done, like painting, cleaning, lawn moving, wood cutting, tree prunning, weeding... you name it... that's what we can do!

We are pretty good organisers and have some knowledge of marketing and project management, if that could be of any use to someone 😉

The same if it comes to hotel/restaurant business - we can help with customer service (reception, bar, restaurant) but also with housekeeping (we have been doing all of it for years 🙂 while renting out our cottage in the mountains).

We enjoy very much also the outside work. We can help you with the garden, with fruit picking 🍒🍇🍏 or any other harvest but also with preserving, doing own jams and marmelades and with pickles🥫.

We love working along other people as part of a team but are fine to work on our own too (if it´s not ONLY on our own, as we like to meet people on our travels and to share experience).

And Martin👦, our son, is more than happy to join in any activity and help too, the same as he is used to do when we are at home.
Age
42 & 42
What else ...
It would be great if we can use and practise our English, German and Spanish!
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9 Sep 2024

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3 weeks with Maritta, her family and other workawayers were terrific! The friendly atmosphere, great local cuisine, beautiful nature around and the "oh happeln" experience itself was something we will never forget. Thank you for making us feel like at home! We can definitely recommend!

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26 Apr 2023

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It was a pleasure to host Zuzana, Jan and family. They worked so diligently to achieve all that I asked and more.
They were extremely friendly and polite, caring of my house and garden. They even joined in the weekly zoom quiz with my sisters. They are all welcome to return at anytime . They left the space they lived in immaculate, would not have… read more

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24 Apr 2023

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The two weeks at Yvonne's were just great. The house is big, offering enough privacy and some of the best views we have ever seen... and the village itself is very nice too, with the old houses in the centre, beautiful cave church on the hill and friendly and helpful neighbours. And with thermal baths just few km away as a bonus!
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24 Oct 2022

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Although staying only for one night, while traveling through Estonia, we enjoyed our visit very much. Everybody was very nice and friendly, Femke showed us around the village and explained the philosophy and daily routines. We even had a possibility to watch the milking of the cows, learn about carpet making and help with apple juice pressing. It… read more

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9 Sep 2024

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26 Apr 2023

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24 Apr 2023

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24 Oct 2022

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6 Oct 2022

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What an incredible family and team! Zuzana, Jan and their boys were top notch. We would not have been able to pack up the farm for the winter without them. What they accomplished in just 3.5 weeks far surpassed our hopes. For that, we are incredibly grateful.

Here is why Zuzana, Jan and their boys were so great:

1. Incredibly hard-working AND… read more "smart" working.
In just 3.5 weeks, Zuzana, Jan and their boys packed up our whole vegetable farm (20+ beds) - weeding, laying compost and fermented sheep poop, and leveling all our vegetable beds. They created hot tubs full of compost for next year, and they "saved" our dying strawberry plants, by creating fresh, new beds organized by vintage through daughter-snipping, and transplanting into fresh new beds they prepared. They harvested and preserved vegetables.

They accomplished all this because they knew how to self-organize and distribute and sequence tasks so that work was done the most efficient way possible. No micro-management needed whatsoever. In fact, they were pushing us to think bigger and more ambitious in order to maximize the value they could deliver - a great learning for me.

They were also incredibly hard-working. Much of the work they did was heavy and hard, but not once did they complain or slack off. Their energy, focus and self-reliance was unparalleled. My biggest regret from their time with us is me not finding more time to work along side them - to learn from them, to watch how they self-organize and to practice "keeping up" with their work pace. Their work ethic is top.

Further, the twins, while only 14, carried the weight of super high capacity adults. I was impressed. Meeting them and watching them collaborate gives me hope for the future. If my younger boys turn out just half as hard-working, mature and reliable as their boys, I will be a proud mama.

2. Pro-active
A surprise but much appreciated attribute was how pro-active the whole family was. Many times they jumped in or tackled a task that was not specifically asked of them, but they did it because they were engaged and simply saw it was needed (before even us at times). For example, they cleaned up our tool storage and jumped in on one of our farmers markets to help with customers, set-up and break-down. They simply saw we could use extra hands, which we did but hadn't planned for! Without them, the market would've been far more stressful and less productive.

3. Inspiring and Fun.
Aside from their incredible contributions, Zuzana, Jan and the boys are warm and wonderful people. They are living intentional and rich lives - exposing their boys to all kinds of living. They appreciate the beauty in the world (even after carrying wheel barral loads of manure for hours!) and are simply inspiring to work with and get to know. They are positive, open, warm, friendly, and real. Quite a gem of a family.

We hope they stay in touch and hope they know that their contribution this last month will be felt for years to come. They helped us raise our standards both of what to give and receive through workaway and how to run a farm. Forever grateful!

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5 Oct 2022

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Danae, Bjørn, thank you for the special 3 and 1/2 weeks we spent in your beautiful place! We've enjoyed everything - from working in the garden, setting a strawberry farm 😋, helping with the wood and during the farmers market, preserving the yummy swiss chard but also cleanings and preps for the wedding. The work was sometimes demanding 💪 but we… read more

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9 Jan 2022

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help with some restoration ...)

Beautiful place, lovely surroundings and Renaud is a remarkable and interesting man, always smilling and very friendly. We had only few days but would definitely love to stay longer and help more. Till we meet again... Merci, Renaud!

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5 Jan 2022

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We loved having the family, they are hard workers and fun people to be around with.

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2 Jan 2022

Left by Workawayer () for host (Learn Portuguese and help out ...)

We enjoyed our workaway at Sandra's and Maurice's resort very much. We were pruning some trees, clearing bushes and did some painting and dogsitting too. None of it was difficult and as we had nice company in Maurice and other full time staff - Elizabeth and Maria, the time just flew by. The accommodation was superb and the location even better.… read more

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6 Dec 2021

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Cary and Richard are lovely, very hospitable and kind hosts with big hearts and our 10 days with them were terrific!
We were lucky to get the best November weather one could ask for and spent most of our time outside - working in the garden, pruning trees and taking the dogs for long walks to the nearby eucalyptus forests. Nothing difficult and… read more

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23 Nov 2021

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Wonderful family! Did more clearing up in the garden in a few days that I could do all year! Kids are lovely, well mannered, and work hard with their parents. And the dogs adored them, always a plus! Calm and delightful family that I would recommend to anyone.

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8 Nov 2021

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Our family has spend with Heidi and Thomas more than 5 lovely weeks and it was definitely one of the workaways we will always remember ❤ We were helping around the house and with Heidi's super busy B&B, with tidying up, recycling and cooking. We all loved the regular raclette Saturdays, Benjamin's chilli pizzas and all the other yummy, healthy and… read more

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