So we are now staying at a place called Comrie Croft which is, you guessed it, near Comrie. That's just north a bit of Stirling and Edinburgh. Comrie Croft is a hostel/campground and they also rent bikes and have a tea garden. They usually have large groups come into the hostel so last week we had a Baptist Church group here and this week we have a German school group. Our accommodation is in large caravan that has a living room and everything so we have a lot of room to ourselves.
This helpx job is a bit different as we are making all our own food and just get an allowance from Comrie Croft for food. We only have to work about four hours a day which leaves a tonne of time for us to do lots of our own things. Since they rent out lots of bikes we can take bikes out and cycle around the countryside anytime we want. They even have a tandem bicycle, which is something fun and different to go out on.
For work we are working on creating a new games room that will have a pool table and table tennis in it. So far we have moved all the rental bikes out of the room into their new places and disassembled the old bike racks. After that we sealed the walls so that the new paint will stick on the old mortar walls. I'm using all the handy man skills that my dad tried to teach me, but that I never quite paid enough attention too….
We've had lots of really sunny days for once which is really nice for biking and hiking around. One night had a fire and made some banana boats which made us feel like we were right at home camping in Algonquin. It's even been hot enough to go swimming, so i've taken a dip or two in the campground pond thingy. Ice cold! No chance of Sophie going in. Overall this helpx is quite a bit different because we keep more to ourselves and on our time off we can just go and do whatever we like so we spend a lot more time together and just have a lot of down time.
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