I’m a simple man and I'd say an easygoing, adventurous and friendly person.

My preferred activities are cycling, going to concerts and sport events, playing football and tennis. I like going out for a drink and billiards in a bar, or dancing all night long in a club night, but also playing badminton in the park, kart driving or chilling home, playing video/board/card games or to watch something. I need both getting out of my comfort zone regularly to feel alive and staying back there for a while to rest and recharge.

More to less I like to travel by bicycle, airplane, train, ferry, bus and car. I adore cities crossed by big rivers as Prague and Vltava, Budapest and Danube, London and Thames or the canals of Amsterdam. Mountains and seaside are both awesome to me, but it's more likely to make me climb something, if you take a bicycle too. As much as I love cycling, I do not walking. You can make me run only if there's a ball to chase or I'm in hurry and I'd miss the subway train otherwise :D I love animals as well, but my lifestyle is (still) not the best for having a pet again :)

It could be said I'm a tech guy to a certain extent, but for some things I could be quite conservative if I don't feel I need the new upgrade or a change because of a trend.

I graduated high school for IT, but I realized I don't want to spend most of my lifetime in coding, stuck on a desk at home or even worse to me, in an office. I know it's hard to understand for many people these days, but I even prefer to do cycling deliveries, being outside all the day and doing something I really love to.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To experience more meetings like these:

Hosted
- 2017/09: Juliane Heffe (Germany) and VJ (Australia)
- 2017/09: Jovana Jovanovic (Serbia) + Met 2019/05 in Belgrade
- 2017/09: Alexia (France)
- 2017/09: Sissyane Rodrigues (Brazil)
- 2017/08: Anna Lotte (The Netherlands)
- 2017/08: Jochen Schiersch (Germany)
- 2017/06: Andreas Haas and Tim (Germany)
- 2017/05: Ruth Clark (Scotland)
- 2017/05: Teodor Aagaard (Norway)
- 2017/04: Ekaterina Norkina (Russia)
- 2016/07: Amy Pond (France)
- 2015/09: Benjamin Pauer (Germany)
- 2015/04: Tim Sippala (Finland) + Met 2016/09

Surfed
- 2024/05: Julie from France (Amsterdam, NED)
- 2014/11: Hugo Verkley and Susan van der Veen (Utrecht, NED)
- 2014/11: Loeka van Bijnen (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: Judith de Waard and Simon Kleine (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: Daniëlle Beekman (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: noorkonings (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: Masha Moisseyeva from Kazakhstan, Oscar Ulises Carreon - Mexico and Jonathan Liu - Hong Kong (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: Jaimy Landman (Haarlem, NED) + 2014/10 ; 2016/01 ; Met 2016/12 in Amsterdam and 2018/02 in Sofia
- 2013/11: Stephanie van Hoeijen (Haarlem, NED)
- 2013/08: Petru Enoiu (Craiova, ROU) + Met 2014/11 in London
- 2013/08: Noelia Ferreyra from Argentina (Ramnicu Valcea, ROU)
- 2013/08: Sebastian (Fagaras, ROU)
- 2013/06: Pieter Scheelbeek (Eindhoven, NED)
- 2012/10: Krzysiek Rychlik from Poland (Brussels, BEL) + Met 2014/08 in Sofia
- 2012/10: Evelien van de Velde and Wilco Verherbrugge; Nitida Dooms (Terneuzen, NED)
- 2012/10: Lieze Neven (Antwerpen, BEL) + 2012/11

Met
- 2017/06: Tanya Nesterova, Russia (Sofia, BUL)
- 2015/06: July Rodrigueiro, Brazil (Sofia, BUL)
- 2013/11: Dylan de Heer and Carlijn Kortland (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/08: Alexandra Trica, Alin Stanica and Irina Tanasescu (Craiova, ROU)
- 2013/08: Mario Ulloa from Mexico (Ploiești, ROU)

Interests

• documentaries
• tattoos
• concerts
• festivals
• movies
• board games
• podcasts
• music
• electronic music
• hip-hop music
• metal music
• cycling
• sports
• tennis
• geopolitics
• football
• airplanes
• series
• pop music
• urban planning
• card games
• balkans
• pc gaming

Music, Movies, and Books

Although half the time I'm listening to metal and rock, I'm a huge music lover and I enjoy almost any genre, if I like the track. Recently I'm listening most often to metalcore bands as Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Bad Omens, Architects, etc., but some of my all-time favorites are Delain, Axel Rudi Pell, Gotthard, everything with Ronnie James Dio, Five Finger Death Punch, Judas Priest, Primal Fear, Lacuna Coil, Three Days Grace, In This Moment, Haggard, Eluveitie, Arch Enemy, Disturbed, Papa Roach, Nothing More, Halestorm, 3 Doors Down, From Ashes To New, etc.

Pop, electronic and hip-hop music usually sound for the rest of my day
// Sia, Jessie J, Halsey, Skylar Grey, Pink, Emeli Sande, LP, Dua Lipa, Ava Max, Bebe Rexha, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Zara Larsson, Fall Out Boy, INNA, Minelli, Ellie Goulding, Alan Walker, Marshmello, Hollywood Undead, DMX, Roxette, C-Block...

Also I like to listen songs on different languages except English and Bulgarian, but I love Serbian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, French as well, even if I only understand some words or sentences.
// Tropico Band, Dubioza Kolektiv, S.A.R.S., Beogradski sindikat, Gazda Paja, Coby, Nikolija, Cvija, Milica Pavlovic, Tea Tairovic, Carla's Dreams, Zdob și Zdub, Holly Molly, Leningrad, Zaz...

It was a major goal of my 20s to listen live and meet most of my favorite bands and artists which I combined with my passion for travelling, so I attended hundreds of gigs and festivals in Europe. Partial listing here:
https://www.setlist.fm/concerts/RockSeeker

I don't watch movies or TV series often, but when I do I'm sick of the Hollywood style especially nowadays, so I'd probably prefer something European or South American. If I should point out some titles, they'd be El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes) ft. Ricardo Darín, The Green Mile ft. Tom Hanks and based on Stephen King's novel, Завет (Promise Me This) directed by Emir Kusturica for the movies and Vikings, Полицейский с Рублёвки (The Policemen of Rublyovka) and Shameless for the TV series.
I like documentaries as well and follow some podcasts and vlogs. Also I'm interested about controversial and so called alternative directors like Lars von Trier.

Even less often I read books, but when I do I'm this kind that if I start reading and I'm thrilled, I can't stop until I reach the end.
I'm not a fan of specific genre, but I have a complete collection of all the novels and short stories by Agatha Christie.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My most favorite band got me on the tour bus once and gave me a ride to the next show on the eve of my birthday as a gesture of gratitude that I was keep travelling over Europe to attend gigs of them for many years.

I cycled more than 50000km in 8 countries since I started to use odometer in 2008. My two longest tours so far are twice for about 1000km each - the first one was a tour of Romania in 2013 and the second, going from my hometown Sofia to Budapest crossing the whole of Serbia in 2019 when shortly after the pandemic hit. Longest distance cycled in a day is about 200km during 3-days ride to the seaside in Bulgaria and most elevation gain in a day is more than 4000m for about 160km in Rhodope Mountains. Here it is my Strava profile where I upload most of my intercity rides: https://www.strava.com/athletes/23190116

Dozens of people around me were inspired, asked me for assistance and I helped them to choose what kind of a bicycle to buy.
Some of them use it only for faster and more enjoyable moving around the city, but others began to join us for intercity trips as well. Although this is a modest contribution to the overall situation, I hope and I want to believe that lots of small steps like that would lead to more human-friendly infrastructure and less car-oriented cities.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria