Our second Workaway is at a Bed and Breakfast in Lower Normandy France. Our hosts Peter and Su are a middle aged British couple who moved over to France about 6 years ago with their two children to have a bit of a crack.
The BnB is a massive 1850's farm house, with surrounding barns which have partially been turned into usefull rooms for workawayers or personal use.
The village Fresné-la-Mère is tiny, and is surrounded by bulk farms (I believe Normandy is the great bowl for France). We are about 5km from a larger town Falaise.
Peter and Su have been hosting workawayers almost constantly since they've opened their doors around six years ago and have a pretty good process with explaining what is required and organising jobs depending on the workawayers ability.
The BnB has 5 rooms of different configuration, a communal guest room and dinning room. Pete (an experienced chef) offers dinner each night.
A typical day:
8.30am - Wander over to the main house for breakfast.
9am - Start work, strip rooms, begin ironing sheets or cleaning bathrooms of rooms booked the night before.
12pm - Lunch followed by a break.
2pm - Begin jobs such as mowing, gardening, general diy, looking after animals, slashing the paddock, etc. until knock off at 4pm.
4pm - Free time until tea.
The food we've been provided so far has been amazing. We've had some local 'traditional' foods, ciders and wines and some British stuff as well.
Each day we learn a couple more french words and really just soak up the countryside and relax after work since we've been working pretty hard. At the moment its all pretty low key, and we aren't too adventurous. The next couple of months are going to be full on so we are taking the time now to skew some spending and enjoy the simple things.
Each day we learn a couple more french words and really just soak up the countryside and relax after work since we've been working pretty hard. At the moment its all pretty low key, and we aren't too adventurous. The next couple of months are going to be full on so we are taking the time now to skew some spending and enjoy the simple things.
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| Old empty barns looking through to the pond and paddock. |
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| The main BnB house. |
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| Looking from the paddock back toward the town, our accommodation on the left - first green door. |
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| Driveway off the main street |
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| The main house on the right and barn's on the left. |
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| The selection of cakes at the local bakery - plan is to try everyone before we leave :) |
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| Main street of Fresné-la-Mère |
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| A flea market we visited at a neighbouring village |
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| Lunchtime frothies |
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| Amy full whipper snipper mode. |
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| Slashing their paddock to keep on top of their stinging nettles. |
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