Kurt & Loe

Belgium
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We are currently
Travelling
Our next destination:
India - from Sep 2024 until Oct 2024
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Description
We met in 2007 on the dance floor (folk dancing). A few years later we married and bought (and refurbished) a house together (till that point, a bit standard).
We don't have kids, we don't have a car, television or microwave. And in 2020 (returning from an eye-opening trip to Ecuador) we decided not to work full time any more in order to have time for all the important things of life.

From 2012 to 2024 we had a fairly big garden which after a few years provided most of our veggies and a big portion of our fruit most of the year. Recycling and reusing items is our first choice when we (think we) need something. We said goodbye to our flush toilet and made ourselves a simple composting toilet!
In 2022-2024 we spent in total 10 months in India, mostly in Gujarat and Rajasthan, having fallen in love with the Indian village life.

We decided to sell the house we had refurbished in order to buy a small apartment in the heart of Brussels. No garden anymore, but we are now mortgage-free and can spend even more time travelling.

For the moment we live in the city, which we love. But we are even more appealed to nature. We like birdwatching and long walks while enjoying nature and wildlife.
Interests
Animals
Photography
Architecture
Cycling
Carpentry
Culture
DIY & crafts
Farming
Politics / Social justice
Vegetarian or vegan
Sustainability
Plant care
Music
Dancing
Languages
Mountain
Gardening
History
Cooking & food
Nature
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
German: Beginner
Spanish: Beginner
Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Life at a Farmstay
Some knowledge of:
DIY and building projects
Eco Projects
Able to teach about:
Gardening
Creating/ Cooking family meals
More details about your skills
- Garden work : scything, sowing and planting, cuttings, seed saving, general maintenance ...
- Machine and hand sewing (see photo : historical clothing) and restyling old clothes
- Refurbishing old furniture and elementary wood work
- Elementary electricity, painting
- Cooking and baking (making the most of what's on hand), making our own sourdough bread and yoghurt, fermenting ...
- Translating from French, Dutch and English to English and Dutch
Age
52 & 39
What else ...
We like to play board games.
We love to dance (folk dancing, Argentinian tango, lindy hop ...) but we don't do it often enough.
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
  walnuts
- Special dietary requirements
  vegetarian

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17 Mar 2024

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Experience Rural Living on a ...)

We have spent a week at Krishna's village house and we very much enjoyed the cultural exchange. Loe learned to make chapati, mehti puri and bajra ki rotli. We spent time with his 3 wonderful kids and visited his father's farm.
Krishna takes great care you will enjoy simple village life. He also took us to some intresting places in the… read more

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17 Mar 2024

Left by host (Experience Rural Living on a ...) for Workawayer (Kurt & Loe)

kurt & Loe are both good natured, and helped me a lot in my house and my farm and helped me in every work, I also showed my village life and life around and we visited my whole village and my village Visited the school also, and I and my family also felt good to come to my home, thank you both for coming to my home.

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29 Feb 2024

Left by host (Farmstay, cotton growing , ...) for Workawayer (Kurt & Loe)

Kurt and loe are good couple they lived with us for 5 days and acted very good manner and did help in farm and we enjoyed together food and cultural and textile tours. Really they are good people. Would host again.
Thanks

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29 Feb 2024

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Farmstay, cotton growing , ...)

We stayed with Naran for only 5 days but would have loved to stay longer. His farm is very beautiful. We helped with watering the wheat field and cooked together one evening on the thule.
Naran showed us many artisans in the neighbourhood and we could attend part of a Gujarati wedding. His wife is a really good cook, so we could enjoy delicious… read more

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5 Dec 2023

Left by host (Welcome to join and help at ...) for Workawayer (Kurt & Loe)

Hi! Kurt & Loe
we are very happy to host you and we are very happy to helping us and both are imaging helpers
me and my family cant spouse they are every time ready to help us similar like a family member and they just want to ready to Loren and they don it lots off work to my place and we are very thank to them hope see you again if you want to… read more

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1 Dec 2023

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Welcome to join and help at ...)

Due to our tight schedule, we could only stay at Rinku's guest house for 5 nights and would recommend everyone to stay longer.
Rinku is a very good Workaway host. He communicates very well. With previous hosts we often felt at a loss how to reach the place or what to expect. Not with him.

He leaves it up to you to decide how you want to… read more

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17 Mar 2024

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Experience Rural Living on a ...)

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17 Mar 2024

Left by host (Experience Rural Living on a ...) for Workawayer (Kurt & Loe)

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29 Feb 2024

Left by host (Farmstay, cotton growing , ...) for Workawayer (Kurt & Loe)

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29 Feb 2024

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Farmstay, cotton growing , ...)

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5 Dec 2023

Left by host (Welcome to join and help at ...) for Workawayer (Kurt & Loe)

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1 Dec 2023

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Welcome to join and help at ...)

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26 Feb 2023

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Help in our organic farm in ...)

We stayed two weeks in Rams' and Rama's farm and that was way too short. We helped them watering and mulching lots of newly planted trees and scrubs, sprayed the mango's with an organic mixture and repaired one of their solar cookers. Each day started with the cleaning of the cowshed, and how I loved it. Rama provided us with delicious South… read more

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29 Jan 2023

Left by host (Help in our organic farm in ...) for Workawayer (Kurt & Loe)

Despite the initial hiccup on communication and resulting difficulties ( Kurt and Loe had to go back and return the next day), we had a wonderful pair in Kurt and Loe. They were both very much aligned with our way of living and thinking. They worked hard, took a lot of initiative and helped us in many farm activities - mainly watering and… read more

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15 Dec 2022

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Open community learning, ...)

We stayed one week at Tushars farm.
The surrounding are absolutely stunning. And there are lovely walks nearby. A tip: take the dogs with you if you can. They will love you for it. We saw a great many birds to.
The focus on Tushar's farm is not on the work but on the connection to each other.
We thrashed some rice (max 2 hours a day), did some… read more

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19 Sep 2022

Left by host (Quiet cottage with cats in ...) for Workawayer (Kurt & Loe)

They were amazing! I have to say my garden has never looked so good, my neighbours were even commenting they worked too hard :-) They did way beyond what I asked and transformed my yard. Also, they were kind with my cats, very creative cooks, they left my house beautiful. Also they did some painting and it was done to perfection I was away during… read more

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5 Aug 2022

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Quiet cottage with cats in ...)

We have enjoyed our three week's stay at Irene's very much. If you want to get away from all the noise of the city, this most certainly is the perfect place for you. Irene is a caring, communicative host who wants her Workaway guests to be comfortable. During most of our visit she was away on a trip to America but she took care we had everything… read more

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19 Feb 2022

Left by Workawayer (Kurt & Loe) for host (Small chores and language ...)

This was our first Workaway experience and it was perfect. We only stayed for twelve days, but we would have loved to stay some weeks more.

As Pelle needs to go to Stockholm for his job for a week at least once every month, chances are fairly big you will be alone for some time, in charge of the 15 or so chickens (and in the mean time feeding the… read more

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