Work exchange in France: Come help and enjoy the French Pyrenees!

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What you offer

24h

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

Pet Sitting: Taking care of and looking after pets.

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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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.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

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.

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.

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

Great food - three meals a day, three days off, great accommodation, great work, great location. Gardening, housework, DIY. French markets, Medieval market town, Toulouse one hour, Barcelona 4 hours by train (very cheap) through the mountains, fresh local bread, warm, honest friendly host, usually two or three helpers, hiking, climbing, canoeing, WiFi, printer, chilling terrace - phew!

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Requirements

Fluent English or Intermediate French
Between 18 and 75 years old
Only welcomes couples and partners (does not accept solo volunteers)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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

This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals

3 12. Responsible consumption and production
2 4. Quality education
2 15. Life on land

Joric

Canada

Virginia is a top host! The work you will do with her is really varied which gives you the chance to learn or improve a lot of skills! She is grateful for everything you do and she lets you know. It is fun, as a volunteer, to feel her gratitude! Outside of her work related responsabilities, she is a great cook and every meals have been a pleasure. An other great side of this experience is that Virginia offers to take you to your activities on your days off if it is close enough. For exemple, she can take you to hikes near the house (there's a lot) and she can take you to Foix. I enjoyed!

10 days ago

Noaly

Canada

The volunteer experience with Virginia it's absolutely amazing. The hours of work were well respected and the work itself is really fun to do, cause you have the chance to pratice many skills! Virginia is a incredible person, she always have amazing stories to tell and the meals she prepared were amazing! The accommodation are also really nice! During the days off, there is amazing hike to do near her house and the village of Foix is nice to discover too. I would really recommend this volonteering experience, our time here was really great!

10 days ago

Elena

Greece

Staying with Virginia this past month was the most fulfilling experience. She is a lovely person, attentive and full of adventurous experiences we shared and laughed about at the dinner table. We did cleaning and gardening. We enjoyed caring for her place and keeping it clean and organised, we felt like home after a while. Some days we would have breakfast with Virginia in Foix, and visited the local markets. In our free time we visited Toulouse, Carcassonne by train and hiked the mountains above Virginia's house. I am very grateful to Virginia for her hospitality and the wonderful experience.

3 months ago

Adrians

Latvia

It was amazing experience. I really enjoyed homestay with Virginia and her dog. Virginia is smart and lovely person with great skills of cooking. The work I did was pretty interesting. I was painting kitchen and terrace, gardening and helping around the house. I spent a lot of time exploring beautiful surroundings of the home heights and medieval town Foix. I had plenty of free time, witch I spent visiting Toulouse, Carcassonne and Barcelona. I really enjoyed time I spent there and hope once to come back

5 months ago

Elsa

Australia

We had a wonderful two weeks in the home with Virginia. The work was mostly cleaning, gardenwork, and some painting, which was easy enough to do. Virginia was a joy to be around, and we loved listening to the wonderful stories she had to tell during lunch and dinner which were delicious! It was also amazing to have 3 days off a week, which we spent visiting Foix, which Virginia kindly drove us to and picked us up from. Thanks so much for an amazing time!

5 months ago

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