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We are Rachna (46, Jaap (44), Tijko (11) and Enna (9). We are Dutch, traveled the world and settled five years ago in the Southern French countryside. We live the 'Coeur des Bastides' region right in between the bastide villages Monflanquin and Villereal, halfway between Bordeaux and Toulouse. We are relaxed happy people and love to have people around. Our kids are enthusiastic little minions, always a little timid at first but very open and happy after an hour:) They speak Dutch and French and are learning English very fast.
Giving up our city jobs in the Netherlands, we jumped in to a big new adventure.
Now we share this wonderful place with Grandpa and Grandma. Together, we live in and we care for a charming, ancient castle dating back to the 11th century. Life here is never dull—there's always something that needs doing when you live in a place with so much history and character.
At the moment, we are looking for house sitters for the Christmas holidays of 2026/2027, starting around 21 December 2026. We have a few chickens and three cats, and we may also leave our sweet dog at home. So we’re looking for people who really enjoy taking care of animals and love going on long walks.
In addition, we would like to welcome Workawayers for small maintenance help and garden help in and around our house and my parents’ private house. Think of painting windows, creating a vegetable garden and helping my mum and dad with their garden from January we have time to welcom you. -
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Jardinage d'entretien
Aide à la maison
Petits travaux d'entretien
Garde de maison et d'animaux
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Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
Off course being in the middle of a different family will give you new views on live... but also discovering the France people, nature, and of course food!! together with us wat a lucky thing ;).
We ourselves have some experience with building, architecture (have been city planners in a former life) , natural gardening, but also want to discover the "new" things that make us and the world happy.
Also grandpa and grandma are nature loving gardeners, artistic sculpturing painters and the love to such for old stuff in the ground with other France people... they are always active! They can't sit still :) -
Projets impliquant des enfants
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Aide
We are searching for people to house and pet-sitting during the Christmas perriod, next to that we are searching people for also help in and around or shared family home/garden.
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Langues
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Hollandais: Courant
Portugais: Courant
Allemand: Intermédiaire
Espagnol: Intermédiaire
Français: IntermédiaireCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
Contactez-le pour en savoir plus. -
Hébergement
From experience, we can tell you—it’s really cool to live in a castle! :D The building has a U-shape, and our home is in one corner. Our door is always open, and we love sharing meals together.
Depending on the season, we use different bedrooms, but always with a comfortable bed and a nice bathroom. Rachna loves to cook, so we have a big kitchen where we prepare lots of things ourselves.
We like being surrounded by nature and take every chance we get to enjoy our lunch or dinner outside. -
Autres infos...
We live in Envals, 10 minutes drive from the villages Villereal and Monflanquin. Especially Villereal has a surrounding villages have a vivid social life (in wintertime espacially Villereal) and people are open and helpful. Hiking, trails, (mountain) biking, climbing are popular here. There are lots of castles and bastides, prehistoric cave paintings and many other things to explore which make it a really nice place. Moreover, the region is well known for its food and wines and is the no.1 'bio' region of France.
We ourselve myself do quite some running, cycling, hiking and yoga.
The place is quite remote from public transport so a car comes in handy. On arrival we can pick you up from Bergerac or Villeneuve sur Lot. -
Informations complémentaires
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Accès Internet
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Accès Internet limité
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Nous avons des animaux
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Nous sommes fumeurs
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Familles bienvenues
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Espace pour garer des vans
Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.
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The work we did was very diverse. We removed walls, painted and cleaned windows, build a roof, repaired a street, cut a tree and much more.
It never got boring and we felt very … read more
A very beautiful place in the middle of nature in Southern France. They own a small castle and a huge chunk of land around it.
Jaap has a lot of energy and is always willing to lend a hand, change your job if it doesn't suit you … read more
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The work we did was very diverse. We removed walls, painted and cleaned windows, build a roof, repaired a street, cut a tree and much more.
It never got boring and we felt very … read more
A very beautiful place in the middle of nature in Southern France. They own a small castle and a huge chunk of land around it.
Jaap has a lot of energy and is always willing to lend a hand, change your job if it doesn't suit you … read more
Really cool to see how the projects develop! They have a clear plan in mind what to do and make and instructions are clear. I loved the mix of carpentry and … read more
Dear Foti & Chaia,
What a chilled out team,
Every WorkAwayers host dream!
Chaia, good Sinterklaas singer, … read more
The time with you has been the most serendipitous coming together of truly wonderful people, and in such a magical place! Three weeks I got to spend with Rachna and Jaap and their lovely family and all the other sweet sweet people who just seem to naturally gravitate to this place. It was an absolute golden time, you … read more
The work was diverse and interesting.
We did some gardening, wood work, painting, electricity, old wall construction...
We … read more
Rachna cooking was awesome, she have enough skill to start is own smal bakererie if she want to do.
Jaap is very friendly and give all is … read more
How to say how incredible it was ? We just loved our time there and wish we could have spend more! But we're sure we will get the chance to see each other again, in our part of … read more
Rachna is a very nice, respectfull and kind person. She cooked all the meals for her family, me and the other workawayers during two weeks and she treated me like a sister would do.
Jaap is a very … read more
Jaap et Rachna et leurs enfants sont adorables, intéressants, drôles. Nous avons appris à faire plein de choses (cuisine, ciment...) Le travail fut varié et enrichissant. Le cadre était également grandiose.
Jaap, Rachna, Wilco, Véra, Tijko et Enna, merci pour tout, vous avez … read more
So it it was all i expected and more, healthy and … read more
He is a creative and talented photographer and developed with us some serious woodchopping skills, did plenty of painting and did a lot in the garden and barn.
What a nice start to the day it is to get up, look out of the window and see all the happy sheep. Renovating an impressive castle surrounded by pure nature was such a nice experience. I've … read more
