Day 6
Sorry for the delay with publishing Day 5. Terrible timing and internet connectivity made it impossible to make it at my usual pace.
Yesterday – Sunday – we arrived at a workaway host and spent the afternoon on a walk and talk.
Our hosts are Jerry (originally from Croatia), Gaby (originally from Austria), and one of their numerous grand children: 5y old Leon.
This morning Leon piggy-backed me for roughly 30 minutes while I was hoisting the pieces of an ancient loom into an attic space (a ladder was involved). He was serious at holding himself to my neck, but his legs slowly gave up doing any holding. That activity seems to have satisfied him for he went away doing something else despite the promise I would take him in the attic to actually store away the pieces.
Yesterday he showed me the two horses of his grand-parents and we fed them apples fallen from a nearby tree.
Leon usually leaves in Vienna and has become my new German teacher :)\
Our hosts are rehabilitating a small old farm. Buildings are made out of cobblestones on the ground floor, and wood for the upper level. As usual, the farm animals were hosted on the ground floor while the humans lived upstairs.
The renovation intends to create enough living arrangements for their 7 children and numerous grand-children. A Noah's ark?
Aside the loom already mentioned, I moved building materials from one space to another.
During that time, the other captain was helping in the garden.
Simple manual work for a few meals, and the possibility to be street legal while sleeping in the van: it's a win-win.\