Join our family and explore Katherine, Australia

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  Description

  We are an Irish-Australian couple with a 6 year old son. We have travelled around using couchsurfing and warmshowers a lot. Now we are back home in Katherine, Northern Territory. We both work almost full-time, which keeps us busy and we are renovating our house, which keeps us even more busy!
  
  Katherine is an interesting little town with a great community spirit and some lovely spots to visit such as the Katherine hot springs, Nitmiluk national park (Katherine Gorge and Edith falls), Mataranka thermal springs nearby.
  We have lived in Katherine for a good few years and so, can offer you plenty of local advice.
  
  We're looking for someone / a couple who would like to do one or more of the following: -
  
  * provide some childcare at weekends
  * help with digging, planting and weeding
  * painting (house), tiling
  * general housework
  
  In return we can offer a room, food and relaxed space to explore Katherine from!
  
  Ideally we're looking for one person / a couple who are able to commit to 3-4 weeks, preferably longer, but if that's too long, shorter is fine. The minimum would be five nights.
  
  If you want to know more about us, ask to see our warmshowers or couchsurfing profiles!

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We have lived and worked in the Katherine region for many years so could offer some local insights. We are pretty well travelled and enjoy spending time and sharing stories with others from around the world. We love food, wine, music (mostly listening, sometimes playing), and we enjoy socialising (as much as is possible with a little one!). So you are welcome to meet our friends and enjoy a few beers with us, or come play frisbee, or sing, or whatever we are doing. We fully appreciate that you might not want to spend all your time with us! So you do whatever you feel like during your free time, of course!
  We may have bikes for your use - only requirement is for you to repair if you puncture/ break. Happy to share our home and things with you generally.

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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

  We would like to find someone that enjoys interacting with a 6 year old.
  
  We are very interested in hosting anyone with carpentry, building, boat repair or other practical trades/skills.
  
  Things that are not included in the 20 hours per week...
  - If you like cooking we can share the cooking of meals. If not, no problem, we can cook.
  - normal share house stuff, which we would all share such as washing dishes, tidying up after yourself, etc.
  
  We are looking for someone / a couple that are willing to commit to a minimum of 3 weeks.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Allemand: Courant
  Irish: Intermédiaire
  Russe: Intermédiaire
  Français: Débutant

  Cet 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.
  
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  Hébergement

  Private room in our house, garden and outside area with lots of areas to relax. Trampoline, small pool, hammocks. The house is within walking distance of town, and near the river. We will provide food, and we eat well. But if you would like to cook we are very happy to share cooking. We like to eat organic and homegrown as much as we can, we eat meat, but only a couple of times a week.

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  Autres infos...

  Swim at the hot springs, walk along the river, swim or paddle in the river at low level, drink coffee at cafes, see a movie at the film society, go fishing on Katherine river, visit the local art gallery or attend an exhibition opening, visit the town museum, jam with local musicians, sing in the community choir, take part in a community arts workshop, play sports (ultimate frisbee, soccer, rugby, AFL, cricket, athletics, triathlon club, cycle, swim at the 50m town pool)....so much to do!
  
  Further afield you can camp/swim/hike at multiple beautiful locations such as Nitmiluk, Leilyn, Mataranka thermal springs, visit Darwin, Kakadu national park, Litchfield national park (many will require a car).
  
  Or you could just lie in a hammock and read a book :)

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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

  Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il aimait accueillir les digital nomads.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  You could park a hiace sized van in our driveway, but nothing bigger really.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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