Help with loads of different projects at our guesthouse and events space in Otmuchów, Poland

Infos

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  Description

  In London I was a freelance journalist and author. Anna and I abandoned that life in 2007 for the adventure of rescuing a very large, dilapidated historic house. We have achieved a lot, but there is always so much left to do. Building; landscaping, developing a garden. Our business is in the broad category of hospitality. Not a hotel, not a B&B, a family house with guests. Our main business is hosting groups. Workshops, occasional weddings, family or friends reunions, classical, jazz and folk concerts. Small events over a weekend for 10 people, or sometimes a wedding for a 100. We have an annual tango week and a rugby festival. So, a diverse mix of events. All while keeping it feeling small and family orientated and not losing sight of why we came here.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage d'entretien

  Projets DIY créatifs

  Aide à la maison

  Petits travaux d'entretien
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Sports d'équipe

  

  Sports d’hiver

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Sports d'aventure

  

  Culture

  

  Architecture

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Art et design

  

  Livres

  

  Musique

  

  Jardinage

  

  Histoire
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  we are a British-Polish family, and speak both languages. We are well known locally for classical music concerts - we have an excellent piano in a beautiful seventeenth century room - and our building might be the most historically important private one for many miles around. It is a lovely peaceful place.

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  L’hôte offre un salaire correspondant au salaire minimum

  Cet hôte offre l'hébergement et une rémunération.

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  Aide

  I'm writing this in early summer 2026.
  
  I have a project which would take five people maybe week. So I am looking for five people. Or 10. Let's say the week June 21-27. I have a large barn with a big pile of rubble in it which needs processing through the cement mixer, mixed with mud, lime, straw, old paper to make a mud floor. Klepisko in Polish, it's a traditional method, maybe called adobe if you are Mexican, but my own version of it.
  
  If you give me five hours a day, we give you food, a place to stay, and if I succeed in getting this workforce, the chance to meet with other people and have fun. It's right next to our natural, spring fed swimming pool too, which also needs some underwater landscaping done. Swimming while placing bricks. I'd think of that as a fun activity. The water is crystal clear, filtered by plants. The trouble with clear water is, you can see my bad underwater building...
  
  In preparation for our rugby festival in July, and 150 young artists from Berlin in August. It's a big barn - 50 metres long and needs to be a whole lot more inviting than it currently is.
  
  So, if anyone is up for that around those dates, you're in!
  
  We are still looking for someone who can sew. Lots of curtains or blinds to make and hang. We have a good machine and lots of fabric.
  
  Need help with the vegetable patch too. Also we are doing our best to understand which wild plants can be eaten - most, it turns out, and we have great biodiversity in our small park, but how to cook, preserve etc. so it doesn't feel like we're eating grass...
  If you have knowledge in this area, or want to learn - all knowledge is inside your mobile phones these days.
  
  We don't really need help with our hospitality business. Most of the guests who come to stay look after themselves but when we do need help, neighbours work for us, and also we have our own young adult kids.
  
  I wrote this earlier, maybe in 2025:
  
  We are rescuing a very large house that dates from the Middle Ages We also have seven huge barns. We have too many projects, some are grunt work, some are creative, some are both. Like, how do we turn our granary barn into a glamping spaces? How do we build our natural swimming pool? We have a huge party barn. How can we decorate it? It already has a mud floor, but that needs extending and improving, if you want to know how to make a traditional mud floor, I can show you!
  
  We run a pension and events, Weddings, concerts,a rugby festival. In Poland, but right on the Czech border. Me, I'm Jim, my wife, Anna, she's the boss, 6 kids, they all have opinions, and general chaos. We look after several hectares of land too, and it is all slightly too much for us. People often say, "So much potential." We want to realise it! Too many ideas, not enough time.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Polonais: Courant
  Wallon: Courant
  Japonais: Intermédiaire

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  I'd like to refresh my Japanese. And my French. Both were fluent, but are rusty nowadays
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  Hébergement

  Our best rooms are reserved for paying guests, especially in summer. We can set you up in a neighbouring apartment, or you can have a whole barn to yourself if you prefer that, there is space to put tents up in there.

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  Autres infos...

  We are in the sticks, a small village called Piotrowice Nyskie surrounded by farms, 20 km from a town called Nysa, easily accessible from Wroclaw, 100 km by car.
  Warsaw, Krakow by train or bus.
  
  On the Czech side, about 5 km from us, there's a station. You can get there from Prague or Vienna in about 6 hours. Ideal cycling region, there's wild swimming in quarries, hiking, cycling, plenty of history, nature.
  
  Closest station, Horni Hermanice in CZ. 5 km (long walking distance). Otmuchow is 9 km. Nysa is 20 km.

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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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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  we have broadband optical fibre internet. The mobile signal is excellent too.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We can provide electricity and we have showers and toilets for you too, and laundary facilities

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Well behaved dogs, provided they do not attack our chickens and geese!

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

  geese, chickens

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