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In the heart of France, in "Le Berry", lies our little hamlet of around 30 houses, people from four nationalities restoring the old rural houses and barns while enjoying the peaceful countryside and beautiful nature in the midst of Europe.
Join us!
We are a group of french, english, dutch and german neighbours, located around the "center" of the hamlet, working as graphic-designers, journalists (specialized in food and nutrition), perfumer, a professional cook and all the other neighbours in the hamlet, in one of the most unknown parts of rural France.
Learn about the stories and the daily life of all those people, who gathered here to bring back life to this lovely place.
You can give us a hand restoring and renovating the houses, rebuilding the dry walls with the granite stones from the area, gardening, cooking and maintaining the place, even just cleaning would help us a lot to bring this place back to its former glory.
From time to time we all gather for "apéro" or an evening eating together. Unfortunately our british neighbours, due to Brexit, cannot stay for long time.
From mai to september there are plenty of events and fairs (Brocantes) in the area almost every weekend, sometimes you even do not know which one to choose...
Our hamlet has been clasified "Remarkable Hamlet" ("Hameau remarquable") and it is indeed remarkable, but the most remarkable are the people living here!
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
This is a very quiet place that is ideal if you are looking for a place to write your book or work on something online, there are no distractions except the noise from the agricultural vehicles passing by.
Discover a still quite unknown part of France, rich in (medieval) history (google for Le Berry or berryprovince)
Visit the churches, castles and manoirs in the area, some dating back to 11th century and more.
There are several festivals of classical piano music in the area, Chopin has lived here with the novelist George Sand.
In August there is a Harpist festival at 40 km distance from here.
In summer there are plenty of fleemarkets and "vide-greniers".
Learning french, english, german if you like.
Learning about permaculture and terrapreta principles that we apply in our gardens.
Go for walks in our closeby "Parc de Parelles", a former granite stone quarry and the area around.
Cycling in the area is very popular as there is little traffic on the small country roads.
Swimming in one of the nearby lakes (30-40 mins by car) in summer.
Aide
- restoring and renovating (painting, paperhanging, plastering, mainly any help to restore the old houses and barns)
- repairing the dry walls
- cooking for us while we work
- helping in the gardens is ALWAYS welcome
- helping with cleaning
- maybe you want to be our writer in residence?
We have no fixed schedule, in general we start working around 9:30, but certain tasks are more pleasant in the early morning before it gets to hot (in the garden) or late in the afternoon/ early evening.
If tasks can de done alone and are discussed before hand, you can do them when it suits you.
Usually we go to bed around ten and as it is a very quiet area, we would expect guests to not make noise after 8:30 pm.
Langues
Langues parlées
Allemand: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant
Hollandais: Courant
Espagnol: IntermédiaireCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
We are a community of french, english, dutch and german people. Not each of us speaks all these languages, but there is always sombody around who speaks some of them.
Hébergement
It is a very simple accommodation in an old house, there is toilet and shower, but not the "modern comfort", everything is quite improvised.
There are cats and dogs in our households, so you should not be allergic.
All Food and drinks (non alcoholic) will of course be provided,
you will have to make your breakfast yourself,
one meal will be cooked and served either noon or evening (depending on the workflow and your preferences).
and one meal you will have to prepare by yourself (will not be served),
Autres infos...
There is no public transport in our hamlet.
We can provide you with a bicycle.
Small towns are in 17 km (Aigurande) or 25 km (La Châtre) distance. There is a bus-system in the area (aile bleue indre). Our hamlet is part of Crevant, which is 5km away. A bus is going from Crevant to La Châtre once a day.
We are also moving regularly in the area, so you can come with one us.
Closests airports: Limoges (Ryan air)
From Paris: train to Chateauroux
From Chateauroux: bus ligne F to La Châtre (check "aile bleue indre" in google). Best would be arriving on a saturday, as there is market day in La Châtre, so you could come with us in the car.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
We accept only non-smokers and non-(heavy)-drinkers and appreciate it very much when workawayers, who have contacted us for staying in our place, inform us, in case they changed their mind or have chosen another host.
No explanations needed, its just for our planning, that we know, who is still intending to come and when.
Thank you very much in advance!
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
We have internet connection / Wifi.
Espace pour garer des vans
Campervans are welcome, BIG trucks will be rather DIFFICULT to park.
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
We have dogs and cats in the house. You can bring your pet, dogs only if they do not chase our cats. If you come with a horse or donkey we can provide shelter and a grass lawn...
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Plus de 2
Nombre d'heures attendues
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 4 days a week
Feedback (1)
We all felt very much at home all the time.
What a great experience!
We spent a harmonious and productive time together. Everybody, even the kids were helping and we had lots of fun, producing lemonades, pizzas and desert with the young chef and his sous-chef!
Great experience!
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We all felt very much at home all the time.
What a great experience!
We spent a harmonious and productive time together. Everybody, even the kids were helping and we had lots of fun, producing lemonades, pizzas and desert with the young chef and his sous-chef!
Great experience!
