Septembre 2024 : our daughter is away for 1 year in Germany. We have one more room left ;)
Septembre 2023 : we host a young girl from Czech Republic for 3 months so fully booked by us !
July 2023 : start to turn some space into a guest room (except the roof, windows, we do it ourselves !)
August 2020 : moved in our new house in Beaugency
In September 2019 : start full time job again !
End July - August 2019 :time off / no hosting

Since February 2019 (6 month break) It's time for gardening, sewing (Delphine), welding (Guillaume) and spending time with Anaëlle and Bastien.

August 2018 : Mission accomplished ! Back from our trip !

PROJECT 2018
We are going to take a 6-month professionnal break from February 2018 to August 2018 (we can't host during this period of course). We will travel through Europe with our kids, travelling by train and on foot. We will meet people by CS website and also by helpX/workaway community.

For tracking us :
Italy : Milano, La Spezia (Cinque Terre), Firenze, Roma (23-28feb.), Trasimeno, Venezia (9-12 Mar)
Slovenia : Ljubjlana (12-20 Mar)
Austria : april
Poland : may
Lithuania - Latvia : may -> mid june
Sweden : mid june

ABOUT US

We live in the countryside on the Loire Valley borders. We have two young kids. Happy and proud to see them growing up.
Sharing new experiences is what we do all week with our pupils by teaching maths (delphine) and technology (guillaume).......but these experiences are not always so good ;)

PHILOSOPHY

enjoy simple life. Stop consuming things we don't really need.
august 2012 : Experimenting Dry Toilet in a shed
sep 2012 : now in the house !
march 2013 : everyone enjoys the toilet
sep 2013 : 1 year already ! around 20000 liters of water saved
april2014 : we definitely adopted it !
april 2015 : our toilets are great ! we use our own compost....gorgeous tomatoes to come ;)
june 2016 : definitely approved by the family
july 2017 : we sold our dishwater (now people tell us :"you spent more water by doing it manually!" "No way, we're doing it in a wild-camping mode so few water at all")
august 2017 : electromagnetic wave house cleaning
(no more microwave, induction range) - of course our mobile phone (we only have one) is switched off most of the time

DIY and Low-tech corner :
- The water from rinse sink in kitchen is collected for flushing the toilets (see below).
- 3D printing of a bracket for a microswitch to get the high level in the toilet watertank. A simple 12V pump in the garage brings water up when microswitch is closed. The tank in the garage is filled with rinse water or rainwater.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

many surfs and hosts...all very exciting !

Interests

in music (guillaume plays the piano or at least tries to)
in sports (delphine is high level sportswoman or tries to tend to..lol)
in green vacation (walking, stopping when needed, eating, sleeping and walking again)

• cooking
• recipes
• running
• walking
• technology
• music
• piano
• canoeing
• sports
• rowing
• computer science
• mathematics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

[Delphine]
comic books (BlackSad, Scorpion, XIII and a lot of more French and Belgium books)
Thomas Fersen songs
Into the Wild, and of course Friends collection

[Guillaume]
Planet of the Apes (1st and second opus only)
The shinning
les Demoiselles de Rochefort

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

bungee jumping........never again please !!

Teach, Learn, Share

[Guillaume]
computer science and electronic skills
canoe rowing on the Loire River
bentriding with one hand (it's over, I sold my bike )

[Delphine]
cooking special recipes...special doesn't always mean good ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

We are interested in bees. We have 4 Warré beehives and Guillaume has built a low cost bee hive (TBH). It is so nicely done that bees came alone inside ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Canada, Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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