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Building a self-sufficient little paradise in the Pyrénées, France

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  2025 

 Hospedagem min. solicitada: 1 semana ou menos

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  • Descrição

    Descrição

    We are Carole & Julien and we started a new project: restore and preserve a piece of land in the Pyrénées.
    1 hectare with a meadow and woods near by the biggest national park of the Pyrénées.
    We are renovating our old barn (our future home) from scratch
    In addition, we have multiple besides project: mainly to create a beautiful environment, convenient facilities and sustainable water and electric systems.
    Our will is to use as much as we can, natural materials to respect environment and heritage.
    We have also a vegetable garden and chickens (when the fox and the marten are not around).

    About us: before this project, we travelled for almost 2 years through the Americas, in a van.
    Noisia, our dog, is always with us, in all our adventures. She is the definition of LOVE.
    We are old-timer lovers; VW and motorbikes are part of our life (and beers).

    As travel lovers and ex-volunteers, we thrived to be able to offer you the best place to stay / share / learn. We know the importance to feel safe and be able to relax during a trip. We are trying our best to offer our volunteers a place they want to stay forever, or even better, they want to copy someday.
    To have some foreigners at home kind of offers us the opportunity to travel again from our garden!

    You will have the best view on the Pic de Pibeste with the singing birds, a sweet atmosphere and maybe the smell of the French cheese (we are cheesy food addicts).

    If you don't mind to get your hands dirty, we hope to meet you soon... and don't forget "in between your goals, remember that there's a precious thing called life that has to be enjoyed".

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Ajuda em projetos ambientais
    Jardinagem
    Construção/faça você mesmo
    Cuidar de animais
    Ajuda a cuidar da casa
    Manutenção geral
  • Interesses

    Interesses

    Praia
    Arte e design
    Esportes de inverno
    Esportes de aventura
    Caminhada
    Atividades ao ar livre
    Naturaleza
    Montanhas
    Camping
    Faça você mesmo
    Música
    Livros
    Arquitetura
    Animais
    Carpintaria
    Culinária e comida
    Jardinagem
    Idiomas
    Cuidar de plantas
    Fotografia
    Eventos e social
    Fazenda
    Filmes e TV
    Vida na estrada
    Sustentabilidade
    Cultura
    Mascotes
  • Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos da ONU
    Erradicar a pobreza
    Erradicar a fome
    Saúde de qualidade
    Educação de qualidade
    Igualdade de género
    Água potável e saneamento
    Energias renováveis e acessíveis
    Trabalho digno e crescimento económico
    Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas
    Reduzir as desigualdades
    Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis
    Produção e consumo sustentáveis
    Ação climática
    Proteger a vida marinha
    Proteger a vida terrestre
    Paz, justiça et instituições eficazes
    Parcerias para a implementação dos objetivos
  • Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    + We would be happy to share our experience with the old technics we want to use around this big project and the self-sufficiency.

    + Also if you are curious to know about our experience on building a van (we did 3) and how it is to travel and live this way, we would be happy to talk about it around the campfire.

    + Carole is a French teacher for foreigners and she can provide you French lessons around the BBQ.

    + Julien is passionate by mechanics and he would be happy to share some grease and tips.

    + We are also food lovers and we would love to cook and eat together to experience each others food cultures.

    As travel lovers and ex-volunteers, we thrived to be able to offer you the best place to stay / share / learn. We know the importance to feel safe and be able to relax during a trip. We are trying our best to offer our volunteers a place they want to stay forever, or even better, they want to copy someday.
    To have some foreigners at home kind of offers us the opportunity to travel again from our garden!

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    Ideally, we are looking for 2 INDEPENDENT people.

    The tasks will be related to our project on self-sufficiency and creating a beautiful environment on the property. As you might have read in our lovely reviews, you will basically help us on things we do on our daily routine. It could be anything like:

    + Help with Eco Projects
    + Gardening
    + DIY and tasks
    + Animal Care
    + Help around the house
    + General Maintenance

    The project is progressing everyday so new requests can come out.

    We are looking for dedicated, conscientious, curious and attentive people who take pride in doing things well.

    Keeping clean facilities is common sense. It is a mandatory everyday task.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas
    Inglês: Fluente
    Francês: Fluente
    Espanhol: Intermediário

    Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
    Carole is a French teacher for foreigners and she can provide you French lessons around the BBQ.

  • Acomodação

    Acomodação

    We make our first choice on people travelling with their van, of course our meadow is big enough.
    If you feel like sleeping under the stars, we provide 2 tents and 2 mattresses on a flat spot shaded by trees.

    + Because we don't have so much facilities, we need iINDEPENDENT people (we don't have an outdoor kitchen YET - no fridge).

    + There is a HOT shower and composting toilet made by volunteers for volunteers.
    N.B: We strive to be environmentally friendly in any way we can, including by avoiding the waste of water and energy (meaning taking SHORT showers and washing dishes without wasting water will be mandatory).

    + About electricity, we have solar panels (enough power to charge anything as phone, laptop, batteries, toothbrush, epilator...).
    NB: we don't have a proper hookup to plug your van.

    + We use filtered rainwater for the dishes, showers, etc; but also have potable water.

    + We will provide basic food as pasta, rice, vegetables from the garden & eggs (when it's the season), oil, flour, homemade jam, basic condiments, tea, coffee.

    + Breakfast OR lunch will be offer and shared together (depending on the organisation of the day - weather etc.)

    + The 2 days-off do not necessarily fall at weekend, it will depend on the weather, your schedule and our schedule.

    + About internet access : We both work from "home" on internet. We have a strong signal (full 4G) thanks to a personal hotspot on our phones. You will only have a connection when we will be around with our phones. Not 24/7 (unless you have your own access).

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    + We are in the heart of Pyrénées. Hiking departure are next to the property. No car needed if you want to discover the surroundings with plenty of tracks.

    + Cyclists and bikers will find our area particularly appealing, as it is frequented by the Tour de France, featuring ideal routes.

    + There are plenty of stuff to discover for both cultural nerds and mountain lovers.

    + Markets with amazing food are all around (car needed).

    + Toulouse is also only 1h30 away (direct train from Lourdes), we lived there for more than 10 years and have many recommendations.

    + Bayonne / Biarritz are also easy to access by train (less than 2h and direct trip) for ocean lovers.

  • Mais alguns detalhes

    Mais alguns detalhes

    • Acesso à internet

    • Acesso à internet limitado

      Acesso à internet limitado

    • Temos mascotes

    • Somos fumantes

    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Pode hospedar nômades digitais

    Pode hospedar nômades digitais

    We both work from home on internet. We have a strong signal (4G) thanks to a personal hotspot (with our phones). Please ask first to see if we can manage something (depending how many hours a day / what kind of connection you need with significant upload - download or not etc.)

  • Espaço para estacionar campervans

    Espaço para estacionar campervans

    We make our first choice on people travelling with their van, of course our meadow is big enough. Because we don't have so much facilities, we need INDEPENDENT people. We don't have a proper hookup yet. Let us know about your vehicle: We can't allow big camper van, RV or trailer. The road is very narrow and quiet steep - you would be STUCK!

  • Pode aceitar animais

    Pode aceitar animais

    If your pet is friendly with other dogs and it doesn't eat chickens ... it should work! Also, you need to take in consideration that the property has NO FENCE (if your pet likes to explore on his own... maybe this is not the place to be for your furry friend).

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    2

Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 833896723622

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