{"id":8943,"date":"2019-01-07T22:09:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:10:29","slug":"tasmania-volunteers-janet-colin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/tasmania-volunteers-janet-colin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Volunteers Colin and Janet volunteers holiday in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Husband and Wife Volunteers from\u00a0Tasmania<\/h1>\n<p>Colin and Janet came to La Giraudi\u00e8re as part of a nine week stay in Europe.\u00a0Colin still<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8030\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Colin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8030\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Colin-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tasmanian volunteer in France\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Colin-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Colin-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Colin.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasmanian volunteer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>works full-time as a government geologist-scientist and Janet works as a clerk for the Tasmania Police. They live in Geilston Bay in Tasmania.Colin was skilled in the use of computers but also enjoyed gardening and maintenance whilst Janet\u00a0described herself as a passionate gardener.<\/p>\n<p>Both helped the project in a variety of ways. They heard about La Giraudi\u00e8re through a friend\u00a0and spent ten days here finding it very good value for money. Colin said he found the programme very flexible and both enjoyed the group outings, the shared tasks and eating together.\u00a0\u00a0It was suggested that sending the orientation manual out in advance would be useful!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8032\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Janet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8032\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Janet-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tasmanian volunteer in France\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Janet-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Janet-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Janet.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasmanian volunteer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colin remarked in a video how he and Janet had the opportunity to interact with the local community, which they did not expect.<\/p>\n<p>You can see them in the videos at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/O1tMouV93WU\">You Tube videos<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or on our website videos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A big thank you to Colin and Janet for choosing La Giraudiere and hopefully see you back here again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Husband and Wife Volunteers from\u00a0Tasmania Colin and Janet came to La Giraudi\u00e8re as part of a nine week stay in Europe.\u00a0Colin still works full-time as a government geologist-scientist and Janet works as a clerk for the Tasmania Police. They live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/tasmania-volunteers-janet-colin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,345,311,103,823,821,819],"tags":[16,869,35,105,10,831],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-holiday-with-a-difference","category-volunteer","category-volunteering","category-volunteering-holidays-abroad","category-volunteering-in-france","category-volunteers-holiday-abroad","tag-france","tag-tasmanian","tag-volunteer-abroad","tag-volunteering-2","tag-volunteers","tag-volunteers-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}