Share skills and experience country life in Audembert, France

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  Hello kind stranger!
  
  Our names are Claire and Michiel, we're a young Franco-Belgian family living on an old farmstead near the coast of Wissant, North of France. For 7 years now we are bringing the old farmhouses back to life, while also bringing up our two daughters: Fleur (4yo) and Perle (2yo). We've been hosts on WorkAway since 2020 and we love the life that a group of volunteers brings to our place. Making you discover French culture, nature and the sea helps us to enjoy it even more ourselves. Teaching French and picking up on your languages widens our world view and help our kids to be future globetrotters - like you! The different nationalities we're welcoming make us feel like travelling the world while staying at home. Every day we're hosting, it widens our horizon and gives us love, laughter and friendship.
  
  So far we've made an old stable into our home, we've renovated a 'longère' (long farmbuilding) into a woodworker's workshop, our workshop and office space, we've landscaped the courtyard and made a vegetable garden and greenhouse. We did most of this with friends, family and volunteers, it's been a wonderful adventure to share with so many different people! Last year we've transformed a former horse stable into a small house for volunteers, so our accomodation is comfortable now. This year we will continue maintaining the vegetable garden while also doing projects at the house.
  
  We're welcoming help repairing the house. With previous groups we've redone the outside of the house, next up is the inside! If you're motivated, we can teach you some basic carpentry, stone masonry and making and applying traditional chalk-hemp insulation on the walls.
  We'll also welcome help maintaining the family vegetable garden, harvesting and conserving (and tasting!) our vegetables and trimming our hedges. The animals will also need to be fed. We have chickens and bunnies at the moment, we also have sheep but they only need feeding in winter. We may also ask you to keep our daughters happy while we're outside doing projects :)
  
  We're taking a winter break to recharge our batteries and plan ahead. In 2025, we'll be hosting in the following timeframes:
  - May 15th until June 19th (fully booked)
  - July 17th until November 6th (2 to 6 spots available)
  
  If you'd decide to come and live with us for a few weeks, we'd be very happy and eager to get to know you! We have quite some experience in hosting our friends, WorkAwayers and helpers from other sites, people say we're very hospitable :) So far we've hosted 125 WorkAwayers from 28 different nationalities, and that's not counting those who came a second or third time. Each and every one was an unforgettable experience!
  
  We love hosting people and look forward to meeting you!
  Claire and Michiel, Fleur and Perle

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral
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  Interesses

  

  Vida na estrada

  

  LGBTQ

  

  Eventos e social

  

  Música

  

  Jardinagem

  

  Faça você mesmo

  

  Culinária e comida

  

  Carpintaria

  

  Animais

  

  Arquitetura

  

  Atividades ao ar livre

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Praia
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  In your spare time, you may go for long walks on the beach or on the countryside with a view of the English coast across the channel. There's a lot of museums in the region as well, mostly dedicated to WW2 or the sea and sealife.
  
  Claire is a musician (voice, guitar and violin) and plays in a band. They have a concert about once a month, it's always a lot of fun. If you're also a musician, it would be lovely to play together!
  
  We always try to have 4 to 6 volunteers present, so you won't only pick up un French culture and language but also on the other nationalities present. We've hosted 26 different nationalities so far!

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  For those with green fingers there's our biological vegetable garden to maintain, transforming and conserving vegetables, a few overgrown hedges to be trimmed, wood to be chopped as well as feeding our chickens and caring for our sheep.
  It's an amazing experience to see how much pride our volunteers take in the tasks they accomplish, learning and doing things they don't do in their daily life. Empowering you to surpass yourself is something we really like to do.
  
  This summer we'll start doing tasks on the house, the tasks on hand will depend on the status of our projects. We can tell you the specific things we'll be helping with in your requested timeframe. DIY experience is not a requirement, but being curious and wanting to learn is ;)
  In the first weeks we'll be taking out some wood and repairing the walls. After that we'll do a 'chantier participatif' to insulate the walls with traditional chalk/hemp insulation. There's some lifting as well as light tasks, so anyone should find what suits them! In any case, we'll never ask you to do tasks that you don't feel comfortable about.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Francês: Fluente
  Holandês: Fluente
  Alemão: Intermediário
  Polonês: Intermediário

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  As we're hosting in groups of 4-6 people, the common language tends to be English. Of course, we will speak with you in French whenever you want and with a bit of luck there will be other French-speaking volunteers. But if you're looking for a full French language immersion, our place is not the right place for you. Claire is French-Polish, she's fluent in French and English, intermediate in Polish and Flemish/Dutch and knows a few words of Spanish. Michiel is Belgian, he's fluent in Dutch, French and English, intermediate in German and learning Polish at beginner level.
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  Acomodação

  We provide your meals and housing in either our Tiny House or a room in the newly renovated stablehouse. The kitchen is shared in our house. All ameneties on site are available for you: woodstove, barbecue, pergola, terrace, mountainbikes, jacuzzi, kayaks, paddleboards, washing machine, ...
  
  We provide bedsheets and towels, as well as working clothes, safety boots and safety gear if needed. Of course you're welcome to take your own if that makes you feel more comfortable.

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  Algo mais...

  To allow us a family life, breakfast is shared between WorkAwayers in the hosting house, all other meals are shared all together in the main house. Hours and days are decided with everyone present, with respect of the 25 hours/week. We tend to do tasks together from Saturday to Tuesday, so you can have a three day weekend from Wednesday to Friday.
  We LOVE boardgames and we'll often play a quick game at lunch or a long one after dinner.
  Easiest pick-up for us is Calais Frethun train station, which has a direct connection to Paris, London and Brussels. We'll pick you up and drop you off at the train station.
  We're in the middle of the 'Parc Régional Naturel' so there's a lot of wildlife to be spotted around the farm and a lot of nice walking and biking routes around. We're also within the 'Grand Site des Deux Caps', which makes it one of France's hotspots to visit and means that most of the nicest spots are arranged for visitors with explanatory signs etc.
  If the weather allows for it, we'll take you on kayaking trips at sea, we might even have a barbecue on a sandbank 4km off the coast, only visitable a few times a year!

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  Office space would be shared with Michiel, who is an architect working mostly from home. Time to socialise with us and the other volunteers present is really important to us, so we only accept part-time digital nomads, no more than 1 hour/day or 1 day/week.

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  There's more than enough space on our farm to find a nice spot for a van :D

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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