Anikó

& Ferenc

Travel information

We are currently

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UPDATE July 2025: we are traveling in New Zealand, looking for a host with either an ongoing construction project (e.g. farm buildings, fencing, renovation) or farm / gardening operations (or BOTH :) ) that could fit us in and give us something to do for several weeks! As our 2 girls are now in their teens, ideally we would need two separate rooms. We have our own car.
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We are a family of four. We live in Hungary, Europe, outside a village near the capital city of Budapest, bythe River Danube. Our almost off-grid home uses rainwater, firewood for heating and we have a composting toilet. We do our best to reach food sovereignity, even though our land /climate is becoming less and less appropriate for gardening. We have goats and rabbits, so in terms of dairy and meat and some types of veggies we are almost there!

Ferko presently works in plumbing (indivual homes and smaller apartment buildings), but has worked in various jobs in the construction industry. During the past few years, we have built a number of outbuildings and other timber-framed structures together (for firewood storage, a goat house, a tinyhouse for a summer cottage etc.) . He likes his DIY projects and upcycling old things.
Aniko is originally an ecologist, presently working for the Hungarian Research Institute for Agroecology. She spends more and more time in the garden, experiments with goat cheese and foraging.
During the past years, we have renovated the structure of two old buildings (roof, windows, doors, plastering, repaired walls, plumbing etc.) and familiarized with traditional adobe techniques.

Our daughters, Janka (14) and Tamara (13) are both very keen on drawing and are a bit obsessed with Japanese culture. They produce about 2 kg of anime cartoons per day :D Tamara loves reading, while Janka is very good at making her own music, constantly experimenting with various instruments.

Apart from a trip to the Vienna zoo, we have never been abroad together. But now it is high time we tried ourselves at ‘working away’!

Interests

Photography

Outdoor activities

Hitchhiking

Cycling

Cooking & food

Yoga / Wellness

Nature

Self development

Sustainability

Pets

Plant care

Mountain

Gardening

Farming

DIY & crafts

Carpentry

Animals

Languages spoken

English: Fluent
Hungarian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Norwegian: Beginner

Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

We're interested in:  

Being an elderly companion

Languages

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Some knowledge of:  

Gardening

Life at a Farmstay

Helping around the house

Animal Care

Hospitality/Tourism

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Able to teach about:  

DIY and building projects

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Eco Projects

General Maintenance

More details about your skills

We have some experience with farm jobs, as we've been keeping animals (goats and rabbits) for a few years now. We also routinely do timberwork (build cages, outbuildings, repair roofs etc). Ferenc has a few years of experience in general maintenance (plumbing, fixing doors, locks, installment or repair of sanitary installations, fixing and exchanging sockets, some pool maintenance), and is a bit obsessed with sanding / oiling/painting wooden surfaces :D
He just finished an advanced course in plumbing and renewed his licence for installing / maintenance of AC .
I do a lot of gardening and care for our animals, help Ferenc with construction jobs around the house. We can also help with concrete work, wooden or brick flooring, drywalling - at the household level. I obtained a licence for building tiled (wood) stoves for individual heating of homes.

Age

47 & 41

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies
  not that we know of

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  Special dietary requirements
  no, we eat basically everything that is edible but would love to experiment more with raw/ vegan