Tiny house, beautiful remote location, basic life, many pets

About this assignment

If you're looking for luxury, stop reading. If you want to live quiet, basic and outdoors for a few days or weeks, this may be the place you're looking for. We'll have to plan a short visit to the Netherlands and can set exact dates taking your availability into account. You can use the guesthouse, that's situated in a corner of the property, sepperate from our house, for a few more days than the actual sit, if that's convenient for you.

Our house is small and basic inside, but with a lot of room outdoors.
There's no heavy power supply, but more than sufficient to keep the fridge running, some fans, the led lighting in and around the house and to charge phones and work on a laptop, but use of heavy power consuming devices is limited.

Because of the remote location and the number of animals, we're really looking for a couple.

What responsibilities are required of the house sitter

Twice a day it is pet feeding time. We have got them used to variable times, which allows you to stay in bed a bit longer, or be back from a trip a bit later than planned.

Our property is almost 4000 square meters. The very friendly dogs are outdoors all day and there's no need to go walk with them. In fact they are even not used to walk on the leash.
The garden may need quite some attention. Depending on the season watering plants or mowing grass may be necessary, though after 4 years most of the grass is gone and trees have taken over.

The tortoise shows up every now and then, but sometimes you don't see her for a few days. She feed herself with the grass, but if you see her, you can give her some pellets, some fresh vegetables or a branch from the mulberry tree, which they really like. And they do appreciate a bath every now and then.

The aviary is split in 4 parts. The green cheek conures live in one of the parts. The other part is inhabited by the cockateels, ringnecks, quails, and Sammy, the very tame sun conure, who often is on Miekes shoulder instead of in the aviary. The 3rd part of the aviary is inhabited by Nuts, the squirl, who was rescued from animal trafficking by a friend and now lives with us. And the 4th part is now always open, but was the home of Jumper, a wild Drongo bird we've found with a broken wing. We let hee go after she fully recovered, but she still comes twice a day for a cricket or a meal worm.
The animals you'll get for free because they are almost daily visiting our house, are open bill storks, lapwings, kingfishers, drongos, hoopoes and many other birds. And of course there are the neighbors cows and sometimes calves.

What are the good features of the property and location

The main house is only one room of 4 x 5 meters, hand built with a plaster of sand, clay and lime on a base of bamboo and bags filled with rice husks. In the room one double bed, a bit higher than usual so that we can enjoy the sunrise every morning without leaving it, a small work desk and some cabinets. From the room you can enter the outdoor bathroom. House and bathroom are under the big roof that covers the floor of 7 x 13 meters. So most of the living area is outdoors, but protected against sun and rain by the large roof.

If you decide to take care of our pets, you can also stay in the beautifully situated 1 room wooden guesthouse. It is built on 2 meter (6.5 feet) tall posts, so from the balcony you'll have a marvelous view over the ricefields, of the mountains near lampang and a live sunrise in the morning. The guesthouse is also very basic, but has a comfy bed, it's own solar aircon, (working only at daytime), and a fan for the evenings and nights. Underneath the house there's a living space, and an outdoor toilet and shower. The open air shower really is a great experience.

A perfect place if you want to go back to basics for some time.

What does the house sitter need to consider before applying for this assignment

There is no fiber here, but we do have an internet connection through a 4G mobile router, 10Mb/s, so sufficient for video calls, watch movies and send not to extremely big files. If you really need to work with big files or on super high speed there's a coffee shop nearby with a fast connection.

Like everything, the "kitchen" is very basic too. There's one burner and a small kitchen sink. But....there's a small shop that sells good Thai food in the village at about 600 meters. The closest village with shops is at 4km, the town of Lampang at 12km. The site can be reached by public transport, but not very easy. A car would be convenient to bring, especially if you want to visit Lampang. In some situations we will leave our car home, in which case you can use it if you have an international drivers license. But some other trips we will do by own car. If you don't have your own car, we can pick you up from Lampang bus station, railway station or airport. We have 2 good quality bicycles available.

Can I bring my own pets?

No, sorry.

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