Alemania
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We are a couple living in a small town in East Germany, 80 km southwest of Berlin.
2019, we moved to an old house, together with a huge piece of land. This place is the fulfilment of our dreams, with lots of space and silence. The house and all the barns need quite some fixing, and at different seasons, we have lots of fruit: blackberries, peaches, apples, walnuts etc. We try to take it easy and want to enjoy the place as much as possible - next to all the building sites and work.
I think I can say we are both open-minded, friendly people, we are happy to have guests, but we also love to have quiet times for ourselves. We are both freelancers and regularly working in Berlin (one at the TV and the other doing improvisation theatre), so there will be days when only one of us is at home or you will even be on your own.
Also, we have noticed that having guests can create a special kind of stress, some kind of having to be sociable, having to find jobs to do etc.
So we are trying to learn from past experiences and want to learn to say: we need some quiet time, enjoy yourself. So spending time on your own should not be a problem to you.
Next to the two of us, there is an old tenant living in our house, upstairs. He´s not very communicative...we secretly call him "Grumpy".. he has lived here for 25 years, and somehow we simply couldn´t throw him out of the house when we bought it. So he´s living upstairs and we are getting on more or less okay, even though he´s not very enthusiastic about us, and he doesn´t like strangers either. And even though we have lived in this area for decades, in his eyes, we are still the "invaders from west Germany". In that way, he is a typical "old man from Brandenburg" ;-) But I like him anyway, somehow.
Recently, a woman has partly moved here with her lovely tiny house on wheels. So our little community is growing..
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Proyectos de construcción y bricolaje
Ayuda en una granja
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Ayuda con ordenadores/Internet
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Hard to say. Having bought this house and piece of land, I am going to fulfil a very old and huge dream and I am really happy that I have not let go of that dream. So I can offer motivating you to not let go of your deapest dreams..
You can learn what life in the east-german countryside can look like. Older people who have lived in different political systems can surely tell lots of interesting stories. Then there is a huge alternative scene here, many people who have moved to the countryside to live a simpler way of life - I think that is special here.
If you like to sing and or are a spiritually intersted person: every morning, we have a meditative meeting in the garden with friends. We sing spiritual songs from different traditions, read texts or sit in silence. We started doing this Easter 2020, and since then meet every morning. It is a beautiful start into the day.
Our place feels like a huge playground with lots of things to do. When you are here, we will either invite you to join in an activity that might be urgent, or, if nothing is really urgent, you can do any to-do-thing that attracts you.
Cleaning the house/kitchen/bathroom should not be a problem to you. Also, cooking at least your own meals should be a practice to you - since we don´t always feel like cooking, depending on the day´s work. Especially when we work in Berlin, we might be too tired to take care of cooking.
In the house, we want to clean the cellar from decades of dust.
In the house, there are lots of doors that are a bit stuck and could be fixed, and many old window frames that could be renovated. Also some shelves to be built etc
Step by step, we want to empty and clean some spaces such as the big barn, which are filled with lots of things we don´t need (and a lot of it cannot really be reused). So we can always do some trips to the local waste management authorities to drop old wood, metal, old tires, rubbish etc. Other things we take pictures of and offer them on ebay, so they are not wasted.
For nature lovers, there is lots of possible activities in the garden, such as building tree houses, clearing blackberry plants, cutting wood (we had lots of trees either dead from the dry last summer or from the recent storms), creating herb beds etc.. During july, august, september and october, we have lots of fruit to process: apples, blackberries, peaches, cherries, quince, walnuts. So if you like to make jam or apple puree, or other jummie things, that´s wonderful!
If you feel like going shopping or preparing food, that´s lovely, too.
German: Fluido
English: Fluido
French: Fluido
Dutch: Fluido
At the moment, we only have a caravan to sleep in, which is quite nice inside. Or we can offer you a tent with a cosy mattress. Both might not be an option in wintertime - there is a gas stove in the caravan, but we haven´t tried it out...we are a bit carful with gas.
You can use our kitchen/bathroom/living room in the house. We do have wifi in the house, so if you sleeo in the caravan, you might have to sit in the kitchen or living room to go online.
Food - one of us is vegetarian who insists on organic food, the other one is a meat eater who eats almost everything.
Mostly we cook vegetarian, and sometimes my boyfriend will make some meat. And sometimes we don´t cook.
Our place is quite big, 3 hectares of nature, and it offers a wonderful view into the landscape. You can go for nice hikes through the forests or just hang in a hammock and enjoy the silence.
Bad Belzig is a small town with about 10000 inhabitants. Not much happening, but there is an old castle and for those who like spa experience, there is a thermal bath with hot pools and sauna´s.
Further, there are some interesting alternative projects around. Also, one of our friends is a regular workaway host, so we might meet with them sometimes, doing some bigger works altogether or barbequeing.
Our house is very close at the railway station - 5 minutes to walk. The hourly trains will take you to Berlin main station in exactly 60 minutes. Also Potsdam and Dessau are interesting towns reachable within less than an hour. We both have a subcription ticket for this area plus Berlin, which in the weekends you could use for free to take rides into Berlin or Potsdam.
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Uno
Maximum 4 hours a day, 5 days a week
