Helping to make a special place near Toulouse, in the French Pyrenees. France
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Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (David)
When meeting David things just clicked into a positive place straight away ! One of the first things I appreciated was his first contact letter via Workaway, he wrote his message in a way that showed a careful person who had made an effort to communicate in English and was genuinely interested in my project.
I think David has two great major
… read more strong points in his character, integrity and a positive outlook, so of course things went very well for us right from the word go. Our Workaway deal was also really good, we would vary our periods of workdays during the week depending on our availability, he would spend time doing his stuff and then do a few days work either alone or together. He is also energetic and very motivated, always ready to get into a project and get the work done ! One morning he was feeling bad and unwell so I suggested he take some time out and rest, chill and recuperate, when I asked him if that was ok he replied; nah I think I want to paint !
During his time at my mountain house he and Thomas, cleared the trees around the tin shed, dug out a trench and repaired the rotten lower planks on the shed and reinforced the posts in the ground. Alone at my place in Colomiers he cleared old branches from the trees, made a frame to protect the plants from frost, finished the mosaic wooden table top, painted the music room, wire brushed the radiator…. and many more things to help the project move forward. I really appreciated that he would never hesitate to ask if he needed my opinion or wasn’t sure how to do something, he was also good at clearing up and putting tools back in order after a job.
And last but not least we had some good fun together joking and talking, camping out on the mountain, some great pizza parties, card games and we even got to level eight in the Mind game !!
Thank you David for coming to stay with me and sharing your enthusiasm for exploring life and working hard to get a good job done. I wish you all the best on your project and hope to see you again so we can exchange more music and have fun !
Laissé par le workawayer (David) pour l'hôte
Some time has been passed, since I was staying at Dorians House in Colomiers and in the one in the Mountains, but I wanted to have a quiet minute to sit down and wirte about my experience:
This was my first workaway experience and it has been a blast. When I contacted Dorian the communication went straight to phonecalls and we would arrange a
… read more meeting. I wanted to be near Toulouse, because my girlfriend was studying there at the time.
At first I could not believe, how fast Dorian connected my girlfriend and me to his friends.. The first weekend I spent at the Mountainhouse (Later to be known as the Lea(f)ve Lodge) with a lot of very kind and loving people. We helped to prepare some food and would cut some firewood. Then I also got involved in the beautiful routine called Aperetif. After this weekend Thomas came by to help Dorian, too. I think we had a great time up there and the three of us were working very good together. Most of the time Dorian would share his ideas about how the work should be done, but then left us some creative space. I was happy, that Thomas was there, because he had a lot more experience than I have. Every day we had great meals made for us by el chefe himself. I did a lot of things I've never done before in that mountainhousetime, which I am very grateful for (for example cut down trees, doing cement, rebuilding a small hut... and so one). I fell in love with that mountainhouse and a few weeks later I found myself with my girlfriend in that same house doing some painting, but mostly enjoying the time. That shows how much trust Dorain put on me. We also had a beautiful walk to the mystic mountain Cagir and spent a night in nature. I can highly recommend going there and spent some time with the mountainhorses. After that we visited the Market of St. Girons, without this visit I wouldnt have any christmaspresents.
When we went to Colomier we figured out a good routine: I came Tuesdayevenig until Fridayevening and the rest of the weekend I could spent with my girlfriend or on a biketour to the mediterrean sea.
In Colomier I helped Dorian to finish a table, that Thomas has begun. Of all the work I have done I am probably most proud of this piece of wood. It really looks great and I cant wait to see the finished table with the sink on it. Sometimes I worked alone in the garden (cutting down bushes, collecting leafs) or in one room, where I painted and did some woodwork as well. As you can see the work was so variable that I barely can fit everything in there. I enjoyed working with Dorian as well, because he always wanted to know your opion about stuff. At first I was confused, because I thaught thats his project, but I came to an understanding that we're in this together and it's mostly about:
Having a good time!
I really learned that from Dorian. Because we did not only work. Dorian is a very funny, intelligent man, that has an absolute great taste in music. We had a lot of fun, but also deep conversations.
I really enjoyed my stay and I am pretty sure, that we will meet again!Vous pouvez seulement contacter les workawayers avec une adhésion active.
Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (Thomas)
Thomas spent two weeks with me, first of all he is a very kind and attentive person, fitting in straight away and finding his way around my house and being helpful right from the start. He worked with David for the first week and it was so easy for me, I just had to give a few pointers at the start of the project, we often shared our ideas about
… read more which way to do things and then I could just let them get on with it.
Thomas has very good manual skills and was able to be self sufficient in no time, he would come and find me if he had a question, otherwise he would just get on with the job at hand, in good humor often laughing and joking with his co-worker David.
In the first week, they cut down bushes, dug out earth behind the cabin, cleared branches, made wooden box frames, reinforced the frame and made cement foundations, plus helping me out with cooking, playing some good card games and telling jokes !
On the second week Thomas made a really beautiful table top, a neat mosaic design out of planks to put in my bathroom. We then made some big window frames together for the hut, in record time !
Thomas is hard working, sensitive, caring and fun, we also had some good discussions about one of our favorite authors; Daniel Quinn the author of Ishmael. I wish him well on his travels and look forward to seeing him again with pleasure !
Laissé par le workawayer (Thomas) pour l'hôte
I had two great weeks at Dorians place. He is a wonderful chef and I'm already missing his food. His place in the pyrenees is very beautiful and he has alot of good ideas how he can get it even more enjoyable. We were working on an old cabin, which might become a guest/meditation room. I learnt alot new and Dorian asked often after my opinion
… read more about some things, where I could bring in my ideas. We played frisby, alot of cardgames and went for an 2 days hike in the mountains. Visited an nearly market and had 3 pizza partys. Also he showed me Toulouse by night.
Thank you for the great time and hopefully see you again.
Greets ThomasVous pouvez seulement contacter les workawayers avec une adhésion active.
Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (Membre Workaway)
Savva came and stayed for 3 weeks in July with a friend Daniel and these guys where absolutely brilliant!!!
I had to leave for a whole 10 days during their visit and they just got on with everything perfectly as to our plans, when I got home wood had been cut and cleared, windows shutters and cupboard had been painted...
I was so impressed with
… read more how both Savva and Daniel where so trustable, hard working, and also curious....
Thanks again guys for sharing your time at my house, I really appreciated your help !
DorianPhotos
December 2014 the first of the snow !
Walking meditation during first silent retreat January 2015
Our Sunday meal on the last day of our silent spring retreat
The kitchen corner now has a proper sink and shelves, YES !
The upstairs space is open plan, it's a dojo for Tai Chi and can sleep 8 to 10.
Job nearly done.
Merci Sabine !!
Sabine painting the shutters.
Corey prepares to drill into the chimney and install the wood stove piping
Luke stacking wood for the winter
Elliot my son and I before we did our crazy short hair cuts....
Cheers Jacques ! Thanks for helping change all those broken slates on the roof
The best place to be after a day working outside, just relax and watch the flickering flames !!
Good ol Volvo ! Loaded to the brim with wood to make shelves
François play us a wee drop of jazz as we prepare to dig into sunday lunch !
Eric and Ivan making slow progress through the thick brambles, still lots of work there !
Camille, Arnaud and Claire clean a very dirty metal cupboard to keep the mice away from the food !!! Next job would be to paint it...!
This is the view from the house looking south, a very enjoyable part of eating out in front of the main entrance !
The house viewed from behind and above, not the best but shows the western back drop !
Jacques did the job ! Knocked out a few bricks and we now have much more light blasting in from the west !!
Me on a hot day trying to keep track of what's going on....
Not much snow left on the Cagire mountain after april... but still a beautiful view !
The kitchen area, all open plan viewed from the entrance on ground floor... boy would I like to change the sink, it's so low !!
The house viewed from below in amidst the trees... a great place to camp in the summer.
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Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (David)
When meeting David things just clicked into a positive place straight away ! One of the first things I appreciated was his first contact letter via Workaway, he wrote his message in a way that showed a careful person who had made an effort to communicate in English and was genuinely interested in my project.
I think David has two great major
… read more strong points in his character, integrity and a positive outlook, so of course things went very well for us right from the word go. Our Workaway deal was also really good, we would vary our periods of workdays during the week depending on our availability, he would spend time doing his stuff and then do a few days work either alone or together. He is also energetic and very motivated, always ready to get into a project and get the work done ! One morning he was feeling bad and unwell so I suggested he take some time out and rest, chill and recuperate, when I asked him if that was ok he replied; nah I think I want to paint !
During his time at my mountain house he and Thomas, cleared the trees around the tin shed, dug out a trench and repaired the rotten lower planks on the shed and reinforced the posts in the ground. Alone at my place in Colomiers he cleared old branches from the trees, made a frame to protect the plants from frost, finished the mosaic wooden table top, painted the music room, wire brushed the radiator…. and many more things to help the project move forward. I really appreciated that he would never hesitate to ask if he needed my opinion or wasn’t sure how to do something, he was also good at clearing up and putting tools back in order after a job.
And last but not least we had some good fun together joking and talking, camping out on the mountain, some great pizza parties, card games and we even got to level eight in the Mind game !!
Thank you David for coming to stay with me and sharing your enthusiasm for exploring life and working hard to get a good job done. I wish you all the best on your project and hope to see you again so we can exchange more music and have fun !
Laissé par le workawayer (David) pour l'hôte
Some time has been passed, since I was staying at Dorians House in Colomiers and in the one in the Mountains, but I wanted to have a quiet minute to sit down and wirte about my experience:
This was my first workaway experience and it has been a blast. When I contacted Dorian the communication went straight to phonecalls and we would arrange a
… read more meeting. I wanted to be near Toulouse, because my girlfriend was studying there at the time.
At first I could not believe, how fast Dorian connected my girlfriend and me to his friends.. The first weekend I spent at the Mountainhouse (Later to be known as the Lea(f)ve Lodge) with a lot of very kind and loving people. We helped to prepare some food and would cut some firewood. Then I also got involved in the beautiful routine called Aperetif. After this weekend Thomas came by to help Dorian, too. I think we had a great time up there and the three of us were working very good together. Most of the time Dorian would share his ideas about how the work should be done, but then left us some creative space. I was happy, that Thomas was there, because he had a lot more experience than I have. Every day we had great meals made for us by el chefe himself. I did a lot of things I've never done before in that mountainhousetime, which I am very grateful for (for example cut down trees, doing cement, rebuilding a small hut... and so one). I fell in love with that mountainhouse and a few weeks later I found myself with my girlfriend in that same house doing some painting, but mostly enjoying the time. That shows how much trust Dorain put on me. We also had a beautiful walk to the mystic mountain Cagir and spent a night in nature. I can highly recommend going there and spent some time with the mountainhorses. After that we visited the Market of St. Girons, without this visit I wouldnt have any christmaspresents.
When we went to Colomier we figured out a good routine: I came Tuesdayevenig until Fridayevening and the rest of the weekend I could spent with my girlfriend or on a biketour to the mediterrean sea.
In Colomier I helped Dorian to finish a table, that Thomas has begun. Of all the work I have done I am probably most proud of this piece of wood. It really looks great and I cant wait to see the finished table with the sink on it. Sometimes I worked alone in the garden (cutting down bushes, collecting leafs) or in one room, where I painted and did some woodwork as well. As you can see the work was so variable that I barely can fit everything in there. I enjoyed working with Dorian as well, because he always wanted to know your opion about stuff. At first I was confused, because I thaught thats his project, but I came to an understanding that we're in this together and it's mostly about:
Having a good time!
I really learned that from Dorian. Because we did not only work. Dorian is a very funny, intelligent man, that has an absolute great taste in music. We had a lot of fun, but also deep conversations.
I really enjoyed my stay and I am pretty sure, that we will meet again!Vous pouvez seulement contacter les workawayers avec une adhésion active.
Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (Thomas)
Thomas spent two weeks with me, first of all he is a very kind and attentive person, fitting in straight away and finding his way around my house and being helpful right from the start. He worked with David for the first week and it was so easy for me, I just had to give a few pointers at the start of the project, we often shared our ideas about
… read more which way to do things and then I could just let them get on with it.
Thomas has very good manual skills and was able to be self sufficient in no time, he would come and find me if he had a question, otherwise he would just get on with the job at hand, in good humor often laughing and joking with his co-worker David.
In the first week, they cut down bushes, dug out earth behind the cabin, cleared branches, made wooden box frames, reinforced the frame and made cement foundations, plus helping me out with cooking, playing some good card games and telling jokes !
On the second week Thomas made a really beautiful table top, a neat mosaic design out of planks to put in my bathroom. We then made some big window frames together for the hut, in record time !
Thomas is hard working, sensitive, caring and fun, we also had some good discussions about one of our favorite authors; Daniel Quinn the author of Ishmael. I wish him well on his travels and look forward to seeing him again with pleasure !
Laissé par le workawayer (Thomas) pour l'hôte
I had two great weeks at Dorians place. He is a wonderful chef and I'm already missing his food. His place in the pyrenees is very beautiful and he has alot of good ideas how he can get it even more enjoyable. We were working on an old cabin, which might become a guest/meditation room. I learnt alot new and Dorian asked often after my opinion
… read more about some things, where I could bring in my ideas. We played frisby, alot of cardgames and went for an 2 days hike in the mountains. Visited an nearly market and had 3 pizza partys. Also he showed me Toulouse by night.
Thank you for the great time and hopefully see you again.
Greets ThomasVous pouvez seulement contacter les workawayers avec une adhésion active.
Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (Membre Workaway)
Savva came and stayed for 3 weeks in July with a friend Daniel and these guys where absolutely brilliant!!!
I had to leave for a whole 10 days during their visit and they just got on with everything perfectly as to our plans, when I got home wood had been cut and cleared, windows shutters and cupboard had been painted...
I was so impressed with
… read more how both Savva and Daniel where so trustable, hard working, and also curious....
Thanks again guys for sharing your time at my house, I really appreciated your help !
Dorian
Laissé par le workawayer (Corey) pour l'hôte
I am so glad Dorian was my first workaway host! As soon as I arrived, he let me rest up and then gave me a detailed tour of all the historical spots of the city and where to have fun. He trusted me to be creative and work on my own doing projects around his new mountain house, which was a really cool experience. We had many great conversations and
… read more had a lot fun hanging out in the mountains, the city, and the beach! Dorian is quite a competent chef and makes delicious bread. It was a nice feeling to leave as a friend. Vous pouvez seulement contacter les workawayers avec une adhésion active.
Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (Corey)
Corey is a real great person and a joy to have had helping out. I very quickly became confident in his ability to be self sufficient, take care of his work in his own time and organize himself. I could leave him with a job list and explain how I saw something done and he would often come up with useful suggestions and ideas that would improve my
… read more initial plan.
He helped digging a large hole for a grey wastewater project, laying wooden log steps down the slope, painting the whole of the ground floor with white wash, repairing the table and also cooked a couple of really tasty meals not to mention his wonderful brownies!
During his stay we managed to escape for a few days to the ocean, climb the local Cagire mountain and go and see some great music in Toulouse.
I am very grateful for all his help and look forward to reading about his future adventures as he travels the world !
Laissé par le workawayer (Sabine) pour l'hôte
I had a wonderfull time in the house of Dorian. We had a lot of fun, the work was nice to do in a good ambiance and a beautifull area. Dorian is a cool person, fun and interesting. I really recomand this workaway and I surely will be back soon there!
Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (Sabine)
Sabine visit was like having an angel in my home !
A wonderful and positive time sharing conversation music and working together, her experience in house renovation made it all so easy ! I only had to suggest what needed doing and vroom she was on the job, not a drop of paint was lost ! A very clean efficient and thorough worker, a wonderful cook
… read more with lots stories to tell about her travels and projects.
I await her return with relish !
Laissé par l'hôte pour le workawayer (Luke)
My first Workaway helper Luke was amazing !
Very strong, polite and extremely helpful. I would ask him to go look for a sizable tree for us to carry up the mountain together and before I could catch up with him he would be back carrying it under his arm !
Formidable strength and often working extra time, he helped me dig holes to secure posts
… read more for a shelter, carry huge logs up the field, cut and clear trees on the land. In the evenings we shared stimulating conversation. I am very grateful for all the help and energy he put into my project. He's welcome back at anytime !Nous avons remarqué que vous avez seulement mis en ligne 3 photos dans votre profil. Avec le nouveau profil d'hôte, nous vous recommandons vivement d'avoir plus de 3 photos dans votre profil pour que le rendu soit meilleur.
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Helping to make a special place near Toulouse, in the French Pyrenees. France
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