Help an architect to renovate a typical sixties Dutch house in Rheden, Netherlands
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Dear Josephine and Luke, what a pleasure it was to host you two! Am so happy about the progress that has been made on the attic 🤩 Inspiring how unstoppable you guys are 💪🏻 and always kept a good healthy life - work - pleasure balance 💚
Staying and working with Elza was a wonderful experience! Elza was enthusiastic, kind and made us feel very welcomed and at home. We learnt lots while helping on the renovation of her home. Elza gave us lots of great tips for exploring the surrounding areas. Highly recommend!
Vom Host für Workawayer (Sofiia)
Sofiia is a super sweet, hardworking and a persistent girl with stamina 💪🏻 She knows how to get things done and can do it by herself💃🏼 Such a brave, wise and fun girl. Will miss her! Good luck in Scheveningen dear 🤩
Vom Workawayer (Sofiia) für Host
:) huge gratitude to Elza for the experience!
It was my first Workaway experience, I've spent 10 days in Rheden with Elza working on her project and exploring the village on her bike. The place is beauuuutiful! Nature, weather ( sunny the whole stay 🌞), animals, work, freedom, nice people coming to dine together, italian ice cream shop.. I also
… read more met another great Workawayer while staying.
That was perfect, almost like a vacation. The place you want to return to.
Thank you, Elza :)
Vom Host für Workawayer (Nick)
Thank you Nick for all your help and learning me so much about plumbing and electricity! But also about cooking, cleaning at the same time! You're a big inspiration how you deal with changes in life and how keep up the good spirit ;-) Would love to host you again! Always welcome with your daughters. Wish you the best and wish you lots of beautiful
… read more travels and encounters. Enjoy and take care!
Vom Workawayer (Nick) für Host
Elza
Where to start, my first WorkAway and what a good start.
Elza Met me at the station with bike in tow, she proceeds to balance my suitcase on her bicycle, we walk to her lovely little house. What a very quick walker, I have to run to keep up.
Elza has so much energy and a zest for life, designing her own house, using sustainable products
… read more what a good vision she has.
Fist we start with food, and boy can she eat, so slim, she must have Hollow legs. Elza cooked, I cooked we cooked together, Sharing cheese sandwiches on the train👨🍳.
I started by fixing the kitchen taps then a new system for the toilet. water and toilet good to have.
Next fixing electric’s in kitchen. what fun we had erecting sun sails moving them 1 inch this way 1 inch that way at last we managed to sort it out.
Lastly fitting the sink into upstairs bathroom Elza can now brush her teeth in a sink.
I wish you all the best in life and that your dreams come together with the house and managed to create your vision.
I will certainly keep in touch, life goes on, what a lovely person I met.
All the best for you, hope you have some lovely WorkAway’s.
NickDu kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
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Dear Josephine and Luke, what a pleasure it was to host you two! Am so happy about the progress that has been made on the attic 🤩 Inspiring how unstoppable you guys are 💪🏻 and always kept a good healthy life - work - pleasure balance 💚
Staying and working with Elza was a wonderful experience! Elza was enthusiastic, kind and made us feel very welcomed and at home. We learnt lots while helping on the renovation of her home. Elza gave us lots of great tips for exploring the surrounding areas. Highly recommend!
Vom Host für Workawayer (Sofiia)
Sofiia is a super sweet, hardworking and a persistent girl with stamina 💪🏻 She knows how to get things done and can do it by herself💃🏼 Such a brave, wise and fun girl. Will miss her! Good luck in Scheveningen dear 🤩
Vom Workawayer (Sofiia) für Host
:) huge gratitude to Elza for the experience!
It was my first Workaway experience, I've spent 10 days in Rheden with Elza working on her project and exploring the village on her bike. The place is beauuuutiful! Nature, weather ( sunny the whole stay 🌞), animals, work, freedom, nice people coming to dine together, italian ice cream shop.. I also
… read more met another great Workawayer while staying.
That was perfect, almost like a vacation. The place you want to return to.
Thank you, Elza :)
Vom Host für Workawayer (Nick)
Thank you Nick for all your help and learning me so much about plumbing and electricity! But also about cooking, cleaning at the same time! You're a big inspiration how you deal with changes in life and how keep up the good spirit ;-) Would love to host you again! Always welcome with your daughters. Wish you the best and wish you lots of beautiful
… read more travels and encounters. Enjoy and take care!
Vom Workawayer (Nick) für Host
Elza
Where to start, my first WorkAway and what a good start.
Elza Met me at the station with bike in tow, she proceeds to balance my suitcase on her bicycle, we walk to her lovely little house. What a very quick walker, I have to run to keep up.
Elza has so much energy and a zest for life, designing her own house, using sustainable products
… read more what a good vision she has.
Fist we start with food, and boy can she eat, so slim, she must have Hollow legs. Elza cooked, I cooked we cooked together, Sharing cheese sandwiches on the train👨🍳.
I started by fixing the kitchen taps then a new system for the toilet. water and toilet good to have.
Next fixing electric’s in kitchen. what fun we had erecting sun sails moving them 1 inch this way 1 inch that way at last we managed to sort it out.
Lastly fitting the sink into upstairs bathroom Elza can now brush her teeth in a sink.
I wish you all the best in life and that your dreams come together with the house and managed to create your vision.
I will certainly keep in touch, life goes on, what a lovely person I met.
All the best for you, hope you have some lovely WorkAway’s.
NickDu kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
I spent approximately eight remarkable days at Elza's. From the moment we met we clicked, and it was as if I had known Elza for a long while. Elza is by nature a very caring, open and open-minded, amicable, articulate, and energetic person. Despite arriving to her place late at night Elza still made time to come and collect me from the train stop.
… read more As a consequence of her easy-going nature she initiated our first conversation--beside the ones conducted remotely, where even then she was extremely warm and helpful. During the journey to her place we began getting better acquainted with ourselves, naturally, with her performing a balancing act stabilising one of my luggage whilst pushing her bike along, a memory that will always bring a smile to my face. She was my first Workaway host in the Netherlands and from her I gained better and first-hand insights into the Dutch culture and history. Elza was very conversational and involved from the start, she spoke from experience and shared a great deal of wisdom and knowledge with me.
Within one day we had already explored the neighbouring towns and Arnhem via bicycle, during which she was very engaging sharing travel tips, historical stories and timelines of the area and buildings with me. We visited many a wonderful streets, several shops and natural/ecological sites en-route to various destinations. I enjoyed cycling through the natural park or area dominated by the IJssel river, and also along the road that borders the Veluwe national park as one heads into the town of Velp. Honestly, with the amount of things done I felt as though I had achieved so much in the days spent with Elza.
As a budding architect it was a dream-come-true to hear back from Elza when I first contacted her, and believe me she responded in record time. Indeed, she went over and beyond what I expected for in addition to further enlightening me on the culture of our trade, she introduced me to her architect friends, amongst other friends and family members. Moreover, I relished being informed of the history of her new house and its former occupants besides being shown her new architectural plan drawings for her dwelling, informed of the reasoning behind these ambitions as well as involved in the planning process where my thoughts and suggestions were appreciated. Work was flexible and immensely enjoyable. Elza tailored her approach to my strengths and desires and made things really fun for me. Further, she answered my questions, explained things to me well, and encouraged me to think out of the box, step beyond the unknown, take agency and dare myself--in a sensible way of course. I appreciate the experiences one gained whilst with her, from removing tiles in the kitchen, to gaining knowledge of how electricity works to building een kippenhok (a chicken stall), fixing a toilet, or at least trying, amongst other things. There were many interesting concepts related to our field and to life that we discussed whilst at her home or on the move, as well as several valuable personal projects and interesting books that she brought to my attention. She was also humble to remark that she learned so much from me when in fact I feel that I learned more from her than the other way around. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect for me was the level of trust she had in that she would allow me to stay home alone, doing work or not, and thus giving me responsibility for her house, thus proving the extent of hospitality I experienced whilst with her. Elza was very encouraging and more like a big sister who is responsible and spontaneous at the same time.
In all, this write-up does not do enough justice to nor does it fully summarise the wonderful moments shared with Elza whilst staying with her. I do hope that my account serves enough to encourage many travellers to give Elza a go, you won't be disappointed. The saying 'where does time go' is very apt in this case for how it flew so fast. One advice for Elza when we hopefully meet again: Spreek Nederlands alleen met mij!
Vom Workawayer (Ivana) für Host
Meeting and living with Elza was like seeing an old friend after a long time.We clicked right away. She is an amazing woman and an architect with brilliant mind. Her energy and enthusiasm is on another level and everyone who meets her will be sharing her optimistic and positive attitude. Living with her and two other girls (also Workaway) I
… read more learned a lot about architecture and sustainable living and building. She has bright ideas and creative ways how to build her house and I can't wait to see the end result.
Elza will go above and beyond to accommodate everyone's wishes and preferences and make sure that everyone is happy. Her kindness, social awareness, travel stories, delicious food and engaging conversations will make everyone feel at home. I was deeply sad when I left and I will make sure to stop by her house in the future, it was too short.
Elza, thank you very much for sharing your world, I miss you and your energy, and I wish you all the best, you deserve the world, you wonderful human being.Help with daily life and our twins near the beautiful city of Gouda, Netherlands
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