Gardening, Preserving and all sorts...By the sea!

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Practice English: 6 travelers recommend this host to practice English
Connect with nature: 5 travelers recommend this experience for reconnecting with nature
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What you offer

20h

Hours per week: Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

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What you get

Days off per week: Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

Support: Get help from the Worldpackers support team in case you need it, at any point of your trip.

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Availability

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Stay at least: 3 weeks

The Experience

Anthony and I have 3 children (age 10, 13 and 14) and live quite a self-sustaining life of growing and preserving vegetables, keeping hens and fishing for mackerel. We homeschool our children who are all learning French and would really appreciate someone to converse with them in French whilst slotting into our family routine. If you enjoy young minds, like playing games (chess/board games) and the outdoor life then you'll enjoy it here!

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Requirements

Fluent French or Beginner English
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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6 Reviews

5.0

Host & Team

5.0

Hours & Tasks

5.0

Homestay

5.0

Learning & Fun

5.0

How this experience will transform you

6 Practicing English
5 Get in touch with nature
3 Meeting locals
3 Immersing in the local culture
2 Developing environmental awareness
2 Meeting international travelers

This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals

4 3. Good health and well-being
4 12. Responsible consumption and production
3 4. Quality education

Emilie

Switzerland

Wow. This month long experience has been so incredibly fun, beautiful, peaceful, full of love and overall pretty life changing. Maria and Anthony are absolutely amazing hosts who will respect your hours, free time and space (you get a hut all to yourself!!) while also making you feel like you are part of family and including you in everything they do if that's what you want! The kids are also absolute gems!! This is a great place if you like walking, swimming and birdwatching! The Parfitts live a very sustainable, healthy , simple lifestyle that was perfect for me❤️

about 2 months ago

Maria replied

Emélie stayed with us in the month of February with the brief of teaching our children French and helping out with general household chores. However, this mature 19 year old brought much more to the family with her gentleness, warm, intelligence and sense of humour.
Firstly, she has an eclectic taste in music that supersedes many of the young people we have come across and we relished listening to it; especially while cooking in the kitchen with our 14 year old son.
Apart from teaching French to the children, she taught some songs on the guitar to our eleven year old daughter (in French) and a wonderful piece from the film Amélie on the piano to our son and daughter. She taught them to sketch in pencil and paint in watercolours of seascapes and flowers. Emélie was also a natural in encouraging our daughter with Downs Syndrome to draw “faces” and built a very special relationship with her.
Indeed, Emélie is a catalyst for creating things to the point that, from her inception, we made a music video together called “Pembrokeshire Skies”.
In addition, she is willing and hardworking and always available to help where needed. Often – “Could you scrub some potatoes?” would translate into a delicious meal be cungered up with laughter and singing to be heard along the way.

Juan Sebastian

Colombia

It was a great experience, for nature lovers the place and its surroundings are beautiful, there are instruments and Maria and Anthony have everything they can to make you feel at home.

2 months ago

Gabriela

Brazil

The thing is: what a concept this experience was! I stayed at the cutest private hut for three months while teaching Portuguese and Pilates to the kids and learning lots of English spelling and French speaking. Besides getting organic healthy meals everyday, I also enjoyed the beach and beautiful views of the coast path. Even on grey rainy days staying over with the family just colouring in, making jewelry and solving riddles was so heart warming! I've got a warm and helpful welcome since day one and I'll miss all the concepts we've created together 🥲

4 months ago

Maria replied

Gabriela stayed with us from the month of October 2023 for three months with the brief of teaching our children French and Portuguese and Pilates to our daughter with Downs Syndrome; all of which she excelled in with incredible patience and perserverance.
She also built positive relationships with the other volunteers from France and California and had a gift for team games and riddles – many of which we still play today and are passing on to others. Much of ‘Gabriela’ is travelling around the world and in the local schools here!
This lovely young woman is not shy of “deep cleaning” so if you need anything like that done – she sees it more of a joy than a chore.

Anaïs

France, Metropolitan

It was a super experience with an amazing family in a beautiful town. I have learned a lot and really improved my English. I felt at home! I will never forget them!

9 months ago

William

Brazil

My experience in this wonderful place with this wonderful family was amazing! Everyone does everything for you to really feel part of the family and feel as comfortable as possible! I created an admiration for everyone that I will never forget, so much so that I already have a date set to return and spend another season here, family thank you very much I love you ❤️

10 months ago

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