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We are a French Lithuanian family with 2 kids (Marius, 4 year-old and Tilda, 1.5 year-old) living in the countryside, 20km from Vilnius in a typical Lithuanian village with wooden houses, storks (in summer time), fields and forest around.
In the last 6 years, we have built there, together with workawayers, friends and relatives a house - bakery. Bakery is on the ground floor and we live in the 2nd floor.
We currently bake bread once a week, on a traditional wooden oven that we have built ourselves. We mix the dough manually, use sour dough and local ecological flour. Dough preparation happens on wednesdays evening and we bake on thursdays morning, delivering afterwards in Vilnius and in the surroundings.
We need help for building a traditionnal root cellar (to store potatoes and veggies during wintertime) with a space, on top of it, for additionnal wood storage and drying. For this project, we just need motivated and patient people who are not afraid of hard building tasks : moving heavy stones around, trying to find the right place for each stone, using lime mortar to join them etc.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Aide avec des éco-projets
Bricolage et construction
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
During your stay, you can experience both rural life in Lithuania.
You can learn also some building techniques.
We will be happy to share ideas and experiences around a good meal with you.
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
We need help for 1 main project :
- Building a traditional root cellar (to store potatoes and veggies during wintertime) with a space, on top of it, for additionnal wood storage and drying. We have done the plans ourselves for this building : the cellar part will be in bricks / cements / stones and the upper part (wood storage and drying) will be in wood. For this project, we just need motivated people who are not afraid of hard building tasks : digging, moving heavy stuff around, using chalk or cement, drilling, screwing etc.
Regarding the schedule, you can join us 3-4 days a week as you wish. You are welcome also to take part to baking bread if this can be of interest for you. The rest of the time, you can visit Vilnius, the surroundings. Minimum stay : 1 week. Maximum stay : 2 weeks.
As we are a family with small kids, we tend to stick to a regular routine : waking up around 7am, lunch around 11:30-12:30, kids nap between 1-3, diner around 6pm and kids going to bed around 8pm. You are not forced to follow exactly our routine but just make sure that you life style can match our daily life (no big noise indoor for instance when kids are sleeping).
Langues
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant
Italien: Courant
Lithuanian: Courant
Espagnol: Intermédiaire
Russe: DébutantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
We both of them speak fluently French, Lithuanian and English. We are ready to speak in any of this language if you want to practice your language skills.
Hébergement
We will host you in the house-bakery we have built ourselves, in the village of Asmenele, close to Rukainiai, 20km from Vilnius, eastwards.
You will be sleeping in a private room (bunk bed, two single bed) located in the ground floor, behind the oven. Your private room is really small but it includes a nice view on the surrounding fields and forest, a desk with a chair, 3 electricity plugs. We will share the bathroom, the toilets (we use only dry toilets, indoor and outside as well), the kitchen and the dining room.
Regarding food, we will provide breakfast, lunch and dinner during your working days. For your days off, you will have to cook by yourself lunch and dinner. We are almost vegetarian, eating very rarely meat or fish.
Autres infos...
Our flat in Vilnius is close to downtown which is UNESCO world heritage.
Feel free to go there, visit museums or try the local beers !
30km from Vilnius is the famous castle of Trakai with lakes where you can swim around.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
You will have your own room : it is really small but there is bunk bed, a desk, 3 plugs, a light and a window with a view on the forest. it is possible to work in this room. Connection internet is available, it is not very strong (4G) but it works for simple tasks.
Espace pour garer des vans
We live in the countryside so we have a lot of space. You will be able to leave your campervan on our field, close to our house. We can possibly bring electricity up to your van. There is also dry outside toilets that you will be able to use if you prefer sometimes not to enter in our house.
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
We can accept workawayers with pets but only if pets stay outside. We do not allow pets indoor.
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For us, they are clearly in advance on their time, with the bakery, the child education, the way to eat, to build and fixed things... the way to live in general. We learnt a lot about all of this.
Marius and Tilda are super nice kids, Rudis (the dog) is… read more
Working with him is great is excellent because he likes talking a lot like me, so if you… read more
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For us, they are clearly in advance on their time, with the bakery, the child education, the way to eat, to build and fixed things... the way to live in general. We learnt a lot about all of this.
Marius and Tilda are super nice kids, Rudis (the dog) is… read more
Working with him is great is excellent because he likes talking a lot like me, so if you… read more
