CURRENT MISSION

bringing electricity to people who live without it

ABOUT ME

I love...

...having a good conversation with people, exploring local gems, eating street food, learning languages, doing odd jobs, surprises and serendipitous moments, finding new music, being spontaneous, craft beer and good wine; coffee, cycling and writing my memoir

PHILOSOPHY

I have no philosophy, letting the life playing with me as I live quite randomly. All good things happen to me once I stop worrying about what I am doing

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

Because I believe people are intrinsically good and I want to pay back the generosity I've received from strangers over the years

I stay at places and let people stay at my place whenever I can

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first experience encouraged me to travel more - in Stockholm where I met Swedish people and a Tasmanian traveller and I stayed with 8 people in a teeny tiny room

I stayed in Amsterdam with a Dutch guy, who introduced me to a charm of the city and got me ready for my exchange semester there!

Few on New Zealand's South Island, loads in Vietnam & Indonesia because people there have hearts on their hands there!

And one life-saving experience in Hong Kong where I did not need to sleep in a shopping mall, thanks to Ulm!

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Books where history and fiction come together. Some of my favourites are Steinbeck's East of Eden, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Book Thief, Brave New World and Brothers Karamazov, the Little Life, Burmese heart

My music is all over the place and I am always looking for new music, listening to what people recommend to me

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

getting lost on my bike on the winter streets of Amsterdam; watching a sunrise in Barcelona after no sleep; hitchhiking to Slovenian Alps and sleeping in a tent at the petrol station with snakes around; being swept away during Hurricane Sandy on a rooftop in New York's Brooklyn; waking up on the top of the hill in New Zealand where no one comes; raising my own chickens; living with 6+ people in a huge house in outskirts of Brussels, growing coriander, went camping on my own in snowy Scottish highlands, hiking in the Faroes, attended an unexpected Burmese wedding... Many everyday things are amazing and any time with amazing people is amazing

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I could teach you how to make bread and home-made yoghurt if you fancy that! And I could talk with you in Spanish and French (but I will mostly just listen), I could create good impression of Slovakia for you and teach you some useful Slovak vocabulary like "bobor" or "čučoriedka", but basically I want to learn about people and their interests and countries they are from.

Was ich mit Gastgebern teilen kann

I can share breakfast (the most important part of the day) and time spent exploring and talking and walking. And taking photos!

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Faroe Islands, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Belgium, China, Germany, Indonesia, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Slovakia, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States