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There are two of us, Bill and Anette with Lila and Rosie our two yellow Labradors. We have a wide range of life experiences and we're good teachers. The report from the nieces and nephews is "they are fun!"
Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado
Jardinagem
Projetos de construção/faça você mesmo
Manutenção geral
Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado
Bill is retired now, but his career was in energy-efficient building in San Francisco. He mentored many young people in the construction trades. This project offers a combination of modern approaches with traditional French building techniques. There is also a large workshop.
Anette works as a consultant for large corporations. She conducts seminars to integrate corporate cultures after a merger, and does personal coaching.
We are an hour away from pre-historic monuments, Roman ruins, the Mediterranean, cathedrals, and medieval villages.
The chateau is embedded in farm country, with typical country things; crops, tractors, firewood, horses, and dogs. The main crops are apples and onions. The farm manager has been here 35 years and knows a great deal about commercial farming. We raise our own vegetables. Anette is a great cook, and there is an opportunity to learn to cook with fresh local produce.
It takes a week to get oriented, so please plan on four weeks.
We speak English (American), German, Portuguese, and French, and our library has books in all four languages.
We have internet, but no TV.
Projetos que envolvem crianças
Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.
Ajuda
We are remodeling a large 18th century chateau. It will incorporate a number of energy-efficient features. We recycle almost everything that comes out of the chateau; it's a great opportunity to explore a combination of high-tech and low-tech. there is a continual need to clean tile, mix concrete, paint, dig, etc. We also have large vegetable and flower gardens, and there is constant work starting, planting, weeding, and harvesting. It's a mixed menu of things to do, and the work changes depending on where we are in the project. We work every day. You will help us 4 to 5 hours, 5 days a week, and you'll probably be happily tired by the end of the day! We want this to be a fun experience for all of us.
Idiomas
Alemão: Fluente
Inglês: Fluente
Francês: Fluente
Português: Fluente
Acomodação
We have a guest rooms on the top floor for Workawayers. The guest toilet and shower are a floor below. It’s quite simple, but it works really well and it’s charming. The house is quiet, except the owl, other birds and the frogs.
We eat meals together in the dining room or on the terrace, depending on the weather. We love food, we’re in France after all. We spend a great deal of effort making delicious food. We're not rigid about the hours, but helping with preparing meals and cleaning up afterwards is not really part of the 4-5 hours of work.
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Le Vigan (pop. 4,000 +/-) is five minutes away by car and forty minutes walking on trails. There’s the Musee Cevenol and a great market Saturday mornings. We are in the Cevennes National Park with amazing hiking and biking opportunities.
At the chateau there is a large bassin to swim in, and the Coudoulous river is just across the road with wonderful swimming holes and barriers to jump off. Note that swimming is a summer activity, in the winter you can admire how fierce the rivers become.
Take the train to Nîmes or Montpellier and we'll pick you up. There are also buses to and from Nîmes/Montpellier to Le Vigan.
Mais alguns detalhes
Acesso à internet
Acesso à internet limitado
Temos mascotes
Somos fumantes
Pode hospedar famílias
Pode hospedar nômades digitais
Este anfitrião indicou que adora hospedar nômades digitais.
Espaço para estacionar campervans
Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.
Pode aceitar animais
Este anfitrião está aberto a aceitar viajantes com animais de estimação.
Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?
Mais de 2
Horas previstas
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Comentário (14)
Helping with the renovation of this lovely and historical house is… read more
The dinner table conversation was always interesting with her, everything from nursing to geopolitics, to graduate schools. Taiwan is much closer… read more
Anette and Bill are a hardworking couple who are kind, generous and patient. Some of the jobs we did while there included tidying the park, clearing the outdoor drainage and painting… read more
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Helping with the renovation of this lovely and historical house is… read more
The dinner table conversation was always interesting with her, everything from nursing to geopolitics, to graduate schools. Taiwan is much closer… read more
Anette and Bill are a hardworking couple who are kind, generous and patient. Some of the jobs we did while there included tidying the park, clearing the outdoor drainage and painting… read more
And of course I can not forget the… read more
He's a native… read more
They drove and hiked around the country (Helle swam in… read more
The castle rebuilding project was very well-organised by Bill with expert knowledge from a long life in American construction business.
The work was meaningful and all tools and materials was available.
Anette was great managing to keep everything running and to… read more
They were both a big help… read more
We enjoyed Annet's magic skills in the kitchen :9 and learned some recipes from her.
We did a lot of different jobs to renovate the new apartment and another task outside the… read more
The weekday mornings were taken up with a variety of projects, some more interesting than others. We often… read more
Days started with the best breakfast we've ever had, tea-time around 12 and an Anette prepared lunch that is always a hit around 2-3 o'clock.… read more
They have a wonderful property, with a lot of projects and it is really interesting to see what is already done (with such a good taste) and what is yet to do ! Bill's work experience is… read more
Jonathan is basically skilled, but more important, a quick study, easily able to master new techniques. At first, Camille doubted that she… read more
It's been an absolutely amazing experience with them. With their vast knowledge and intellect, conversations about many different topics are often very interesting.
Anette is a fantastic cook and with the (currently) 7 Chicken that gave us eggs every day, the onions… read more
She had great cooking ideas, and the building project is noticeably improved thanks to her detailed work. She's such a positive and joyful person that she is always welcome; a world traveller, she has lots of stories to tell.
Marcela and the girls helped Anette in the garden, and they… read more
There are many kinds of work to do, heavier and lighter. I helped with things like stripping wallpaper, shifting loads of removed tiles/plaster with a wheelbarrow, gathering tomatoes and lettuce from the garden,… read more
