Help bring a Napoleonic chateau back to life in Villeneuve de Marsan, France

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  Descripción

  Work /help at the moment is two fold -
  1. Paid position as an au pair - minimum 3 months stay. Childcare experience is necessary even if its within a family.
  2. Workaway role as a girl/boy freiday - helping out with gardening, cleaning, etc
  
  In your response please tell us specifically which areas you have experience in and let us know the dates you are thinking of. Please don't message us for stays of less than 2 weeks we simply can't accomodate you. Thank you.
  
  😊Our most recent Workawayers have come to us from Canada, Australia, Poland, the UK, Norway, Lithuania, Ireland and the USA . Thank you everyone. We see also currently looking for someone to stay up to three months aswell as the usual 2 week+🌞
  
  We are a British family with 2 kids of 12 & 9 who love enjoying life, good food, good company, having fun and the outdoors! We are revonvating a lovely Chateau in the stunning Landes region in Aquitaine about an hour and a half from Bordeaux, an hour from the Beaches of the Côte d'Argent (Hossegor, Biarritz etc), an hour from Pau and the Pyrennees with the closest ski slope an hour and a half away. The Chateau is 5 mins from the local town where there’s a Wednesday market, supermarket, chemist, bank, patisserie, open air theatre, doctors, restaurant, bike shop, hairdressers etc even a bull jumping ring. We have lots of animals dogs, peacock, cats and horses.
  
  After careful consideration and having now hosted over 50 different Workaways we regret to say we will not accept anyone under the age of 18. No exceptions. Thanks
  
  The Chateau is on 40 acres or so including woods and was not lived in full time for a number of years. Workawayers help on a variety of projects indoors and outdoors including; gardening;decoration; sorting; cleaning; cooking; helping bring the walled vegetable garden back to life organically (we don't use chemicals), animal care etc, depending on individuals skills.e’d like to open the gardens up for charity once a year but there is a LOT to do before then!
  
  We are bringing the Chateau back to life with laughter and work - it’s a voyage of discovery from Salamanders to 100 Sq meters of ‘forgotten really old terracotta tiles under 12 feet of brambles! We try to recycle and re use where we can and are now dab hands with a pressure washer 😎.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Jardinería básica

  Proyectos creativos DIY «hazlo tú mismo»

  Cuidado de animales

  Ayuda en una granja

  Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos

  Cocinar para toda la familia

  Ayuda doméstica

  Mantenimiento básico

  Ayuda informática

  Cuidado de casas y mascotas
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  Intereses

  

  Moda y belleza

  

  Autodesarrollo

  

  Películas y televisión

  

  Agricultura

  

  Trabajo de caridad

  

  Mascotas

  

  Cultura

  

  Cuidado de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Historia

  

  Bricolaje y manualidades

  

  Libros

  

  Arte y diseño

  

  Jardinería

  

  Cocina y alimentación

  

  Blogging

  

  Dibujo y pintura

  

  Animales

  

  Deportes de equipo

  

  Yoga / bienestar

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Fitness

  

  Acampada

  

  Navegar / barcos

  

  Baile

  

  Deportes acuáticos

  

  Playa

  

  Actividades al aire libre

  

  Senderismo

  

  Ciclismo
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Life here in the South of France is all about enjoying life and making the most of everything the region has to offer sunshine, good food, joy and pleasure in simple things. Of course if you want to go to Hossegor Surfing or Bordeaux to the big markets and waterfront fantastic! We love food and sharing meals. Emma is a yoga instructor, indian head masseur, reiki master and professionally qualified seichim energy worker so definitely some opportunities to learn about those things if you're keen. There is not a lot of opportunity to learn French at the Chateau but the children are bi lingual and will as well as us help you. Locals are super friendly and will definitely help you practice - all our local friends are French! We do have a private french tutor who comes once a week so you can pay to have a lesson with her or lessons once a week if you wish. She is French and Bi Lingual French/English so there are no excuses not to learn if you wish to -)!!! We ahave a few brocantes, some lovely bastide villages, the Chapel of Cycling, the Chapel of Rugby is 20 minutes away. The local town of Labastide-d'armagnac is glorious, we have a local golf course St Avit, and even an excellent local rugby team Stade de Montois. Our village has tennis courts and a swimming pool (open in the summer)- but we have one here so you can always save the trip! We are on the route vert for cycling and are on the doorstep of the Gers where D’Artagnan of the three musketeers came from, there’s a big sculpture of all 3 in Condom which is an hour away and his home town of Lupiac which is picturesque and has a 13 hectare leisure lake. Other workawayers have loved going to the Pyrenees, Biarritz, Biscarrose, Bordeaux, Lourdes and Pau. We are in the heart of Bas Armagnac so Chateau visits are very close by! We love learning new things so are keen to share your interests.

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  Ayuda au pair

  Encontrará más información aquí.

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  Proyectos con niños

  En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.

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  Ayuda

  The Chateau and its grounds are ever evolving so at the moment we would be thrilled to have people from two weeks with a keen interest in:-
  
  - gardening - all aspects of clearing, tidying, mowing, planting etc
  - anything is useful - if you're a dab hand with plaster, concrete, paving experience, drill, flooring just perfect
  - housekeeping - just a massive yes place - the place is huge with lots of cleaning and sorting projects to do
  - painting - yes please - lots of window frames to paint, stables etc
  - animal care - dog walking / feeding & horses
  
  All the time we learn more about the castle, we’ve also found out it was abandoned for 50 years with a giant oak growing through the winter salon and roof!!

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas hablados
  Inglés: Fluido
  Francés: Intermedio

  Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
  Having moved to France with a basic level of French we are keen to learn more and really fit in with the community. One of the best ways to do this is to be able to speak the language well! We love to help people with their English speaking should they wish to improve.
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  Alojamiento

  Accomodation will be in the Chateau itself in an ensuite bedroom on the ground floor)
  Breakfast is at 8am - yoghurt, toast, fruit. Lunch is at 1pm - a sandwich or soup
  We usually eat evening meals together at 6.30pm but if not you will be provided food to cook on that evening. We take it in turns to cook this is not a part of hours.
  We are not vegetarians but can accomodate 3 vegetarian meals a week for the others we swap in a vegetarian alternative. Food is simple.! We are unable to accommodate vegans or other dietary needs at the current time.
  Usually workawayers enjoy spending time here and then going off for adventures over a couple of days to the pyrennees, the coast, Lourdes, Bordeaux, Dax, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Biarritz, Spain, île de Rey, surfing or the ski stations etc, covid and weather permitting!
  Workaways use blahblah cars or buses to get about which is reasonable and will often pick up from the end of the drive or have their own transport. There is a bus station in the village which gets you to Mont de Marsan where there is a good train station.

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  Algo más...

  Workawayers have recently visited Donostia (San Sebastian), Saint Jean de Luz, Pau (50mins), Lourdes (90mins), the Pyrenees (90mins), Hossegor (50mins), Biarritz (50mins), Condom (1hour); Aire Sur L’ardour (25mins), Bordeaux (60mins), Carcassone. We are basically an hour max from the beach and an hour and a half from the mountains, our most recent Workawayers just got back from Carcassone which is 2.5 hours away via Lourdes and Pau! Apparently we are an hour and a half from the closest ski station but to be safe I'd say 2 and you will definitely be there. For more information about the beautiful area of Landes please visit this tourist website for the Landes .

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  Un poco más de información

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    Acceso a Internet

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    Acceso a Internet limitado

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    Tenemos animales

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    Somos fumadores

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    Puede alojar familias

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  Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

  Any size. Campervans are most welcome there are some nice places to park here :-)

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Uno

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  Mis animales / mascotas

  Various

  Flame, Merlin

  Various

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