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Description
We are an English retired couple with a modern country property in 2.5 hectares, at the Mediterranean end of the Pyrenees, in a quiet and spectacular location near Prades and Mt Canigou, .
We have owned the property for 30 years. As it is in an area with very low rainfall we use our piped irrigation extensively between April and October, supplied from the Canal de Bohère feeder system.
We have a large family in UK.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Pratique d’une langue
Aide avec des éco-projets
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
Olive and chilli husbandry. Exchange of cooking skills. Language practice.
Aide
Olive orchards and a chilli pepper nursery, grown using organic methods. Our olive harvest is picked by hand from our 100 mature trees, from ground level and the higher branches from A-ladders.
Help us outside: watering, weeding, pruning olive trees, filling bottle traps against olive fly. Tilling, picking and pruning. Ditch clearing. Monitoring our extensive piped watering system. Olive harvest is in Oct/Nov.
Some light building. Painting.
Swimming pool maintenance. Perhaps containing the local over-attentive wild sanglier (boar) tribe who like to come and dig when the soil is wet!
Langues
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant
Allemand: Intermédiaire
Espagnol: 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
Compact guest studio with its own kitchen (induction hob, fridge and freezer) double-bed and shower room, and with underfloor heating. Fibre internet. South-east facing it has its own entrance and small terrace..
We also have a double room with its own outside entrance, bathroom etc but no kitchen facilities.
While the studio can be self-contained, we normally all eat together at a long table on our large terrace unless the weather is dire.
Autres infos...
The quiet small town of Prades is 2.5kms. Our nearest bus stop (and supermarket) are 2kms - a half-hour walk, Prades old town centre has several shops, restaurants and cafes (3kms) and 3 supermarkets near the bypass. Street markets in Prades on Tuesday (general large) and Saturday (local produce).
Local attractions include beautiful slopes of Mt Canigou (2784m) which our guests find wonderful for hill-walking and running! Villefranche-le-Conflent (historic Vauban-walled town with artisan shops), , Eus (village reputed to have the most sun in France). The Cerdagne plateau & ski area (via bus or scenic Yellow Train ride from Villefranche near Prades). Our 12m long pool with solar heating in the summer. Two mountain bikes.
To Prades from Perpignan there are frequent (1 euro) buses
liO Ligne 520 : (but TER train line is closed just now), both depart from Perpignan TGV station (c.1 hour) . Ryanair come to Carcassonne, Bezier and Barcelona year round, with many Perpignan and Girona flights in summer.
Perpignan has many Flixbus, Blablabus and Oui buses including from Barcelona and Flixbus from Girona Airport.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
Fibre - at a reasonable speed
Espace pour garer des vans
Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Plus de 2
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They were really very kind and good to me, made me feel very comfortable and I learned a lot from the daily tasks on the property.
A special mention for the lunches and dinners that we all shared… read more
The work was mainly tasks in and around the house - as it is… read more
Candy is a fantastic cook, and all her meals were such a treat. I was always left feeling full and comfortable after every dinner - "soporfic" as they love to say! James has a great sense of humour that never failed to make me laugh, and is… read more
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They were really very kind and good to me, made me feel very comfortable and I learned a lot from the daily tasks on the property.
A special mention for the lunches and dinners that we all shared… read more
The work was mainly tasks in and around the house - as it is… read more
Candy is a fantastic cook, and all her meals were such a treat. I was always left feeling full and comfortable after every dinner - "soporfic" as they love to say! James has a great sense of humour that never failed to make me laugh, and is… read more
The work was very varied, and never very difficult. It was very satisfying to be able to help Candy around the garden and house, every day was different. In particular we really enjoyed learning to prune the olive trees and strim the… read more
They live in a beautiful area with superb views of Mount Canigou.
My work was interesting and varied and i was happy to have helped them.
Great hosts and kind people
* There are many projects going on in and around the house. Most tasks are not very hard or physically tiring, and there's plenty of work, which allows you to vary between tasks. We would have loved to do some construction work in the studio,… read more
