Open minded, warm hearted family on Gotland, Sweden

Infos

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  Description

  In the middle of the island Gotland in the middle of Baltic is our home. Up until the 60’s it was run as a small farm, we would love for it to return to just that. However, at the moment we are just trying to restore the main house and the farm buildings with respect for the traditional methods, materials and of course the environment.
  
  Fole, our parish, is an active part of Gotland were people live all year round. It is 16 km from the medieval town of Visby, part of the world heritage. And the sea is never far away, you can go for a swim, either on white beaches or from cliffs diving directly into the sea. Gotland is the perfect island for tourism. You are never far from the sea, an old monument or beautiful nature. In the summer there are plenty of pitoresque cafés where you can enjoy a typical Swedish fika (google it!).
  
  We are a husband and wife with two kids (9 and 11 years old), one dog, one cat, 10 hens and 1 cock. We like working around the house, good food (cheese), a glass of wine (not the kids 😊) and we love our friends and family. We thrive when the house is full and firmly believe “the more the merrier”.
  
  Kjell – pappa in the house – is an engineer. Fanny – mamma – project manager.
  
  Right now the kids are very into their sports, gymnastics and speedway are their main interests. They also do climbing, , bmx and free diving. It would be awesome if you have some experience and could help out with some training!

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général

  Home sitting
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  When hanging out with us you will learn about the realities of a family in Sweden with school children. Maybe you will want to help us make bake a cake or tag along for gymnastics training? We try to find the extraordinary in everyday life, enjoying the tulips in spring and the fiery colours of fall, please join us! 😊

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We need help with our old farm buildings, which includes things like restoring windows and alot of painting, You do not have to have any long experience. But you need to be a bit handy and able to work without supervision.
  
  We would also love help with the garden and every year we need to fill our wood storage. You will probaly be asked to work with things that will make you break a sweat from time to time.
  
  Most of the time you will be able to decide on your own when you put in your hours. If you want to do long days and have longer breaks that is absolute fine for us. But if larger things are taking place we might need help for a full couple of days. Normally we would expect you to work on average 4-5 hours 5 days a week.
  
  It is often the interest and the experience of the workawayer that determine what he/she helps us with. Some examples of things we would love to be helped with now:
  
  Painting jobs on small surfaces - attention to detail required
  Painting of roof and facade of the house
  Dig the vegetable garden
  Prepare for new plantations
  Renovating window lining and skirting boards
  Wood storage
  Plaster a part of the facade
  
  We can provide you with appropriate clothes in the sizes S-L if necessary.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Swedish: Courant
  Espagnol: Intermédiaire

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  We have quite the habit of helping beginners with Swedish. And we LOVE to speak a bit of french from time to time. :-)
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  Hébergement

  Staying with us you will have a room in the same house that we live in. We all share the same bathroom and kitchen. Your room is furnished with a bed that could fit two persons if you really like each other. Otherwise an extra guest bed could fit in the room too. You can close the doors to the room, but not lock them.
  
  During your stay we consider you a part of our family with the pros and cons! We will expect that you help out with the normal stuff that has to be done in a household. Such as, cooking from time to time, the dishes, cleaning the table and things like that. To be clear, we do not run a bed and breakfast – we are just a family.
  
  We are not vegetarians, but we do not mind if you are. If you are a vegetarian you would have to more engaged in planning and cooking dinners. We enjoy veggeis and do not mind having them every day - but we need help with inspiration and ideas.

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  Autres infos...

  From our house it is 3 km to the closest bus stop. We will lend you a bicycle so you can move around a bit more freely. If you feel for it it is absolutely possible to go by bike to the sea or to Visby, maybe just not twice in a day. (And only when the temperatures allow)
  
  Close to home there are several ancient remains, at least three medieval churches and nice walks through forests and cultivated land. There is also, in the parish next to ours, an abandoned limestone quarry that now provide for a giant pool with turquoise water. If you like fishing we will lend you our rods.

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  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

  The size of the campervan is no problem.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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