Join our musical family in the middle of a forest and help with building projects in Normandy, France

Infos

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  Description

  We live at the edge of a beautiful forest in Normandy, home to many wild animals that we can often see from our house. It's an ideal getaway for walks, biking, horse riding, and we also both ride motorbikes. Joachim is French and has grown up in this region since he was a kid. I, Claire, am French and British and have traveled to many countries in the world. I now appreciate the piece and quiet in this beautiful area. We have two very old stables typical from Normandy that we are entirely renovating to become homes. We have many skills that we would very much enjoy to share as to learn more from your own skills and experiences in builders renovation.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Bricolage et construction
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  The place where we live is quite exceptional, thanks to the surroundings but also the people. Normandy is a wonderful region in France that many people like to travel to. I love exchanging in different cultures and would love to share with you our way of living. We both speak French and English (I'm fluent in English). We love music and have quite a few music instruments at home :) We both enjoy sharing experiences, having a good BBQ with beer and good music! I'm trying to do my first vegetable garden too! Joachim has two children on alternating custody who will probably stay with us in August (one is 9 the other 18). They also contribute to our projects! ;) There are also many horses around, actually I think there are more horses than people! We have a cat. The area is very quiet, you will enjoy listening to the birds singing but not much more noise!

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  For the last 10 years, my husband has been doing everything by himself, on top of his job. The project is to renovate two stables into houses and homes. One of the two is half done and is the other one is ongoing. The houses would be approx. 400 to 800 years old (unclear!), so we are also concentrating on securing the foundations and this is the project we want to manage to do this August together. It would involve building projects, mainly helping us with construction, concrete, isolation, and maybe if we are lucky, start to help on the framework of the last part of the house! We would like to share our skills and learn also from others that have similar or difficult skills to ours. We would be doing tasks together and exchanging as much as possible.
  
  Ideal stay would be first the month of August (except from the 25th). Thank you!! Other moment can also be possible of course depending on vacation we would be able to take from work.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant

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  Hébergement

  We are currently working on renovating a room for guests but for the moment it doesn't have walls... should be done quickly, we finished the concrete ground last night! it's a little roots but fine for a stay. If you have a van, it's also possible to park in our garden.
  We offer 3 meals per day, shared with us, in exchange for 5 hours help per day, 5 days a week.

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  Autres infos...

  You need to have a car to come here, or a van, or a bike... it's in the middle of nowhere :) We can also arrange transport occasionally if you do not have transportation, the closest train station is only 10 minutes away and goes to Paris in only 2 hours.
  There are many places to visit during your free time, we even have a countryside zoo very close to the house! If you have a mountain bike, make the most of it, the forest is amazing for mountain biking. We also have bikes at home. And a quad-bike when it wants to function...!
  We would really like to welcome you in our home, to share our lives and yours, to make you discover this beautiful region and little piece of paradise. We really need help with our houses, as we have lately been spending most of our weekends and holidays working on the houses.
  As myself a traveler of the world, I think Workaway is a very interesting way to exchange and meet people, and at the same time, help us breathe a little from all these projects...

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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 a good internet connection however we don't have the usual current network so phone calls and messages all good through Wifi.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  You're more than welcome

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  4/5 hours per day max, 5 days/week.