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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Italian
  • 61, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • researcher (scientist)
  • No education listed
  • From Montpellier, France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Imparare piu di italiano. e nao esquecer o meu português! In summer 2019, with my girlfriend, I'd like to cros the pyreneas, coast to coast, hiking of course !

ABOUT ME

when I know a way, I try a new one. not always easy though.I feel like you have to try new things in order to stand a chance of being surprised. can't always happen but it's worth it when you have those small or big surprises.

PHILOSOPHY

No TV for 20 years now. Can't stand it anymore. travelling on foot, bike or public transportation. feeling like cars are just one-ton stones that we carry with us everywhere...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

not often. I had heard (positively) about coach surfing. I like to receive people and share the pleasure I have to walk in Bordeaux, visit the market and bike around. I do it a lot with friends. Why not do it with new friends through the CS community? I registered to CS specifically to get to know people during my trip in Bologna during january 2011

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

met a wonderful couple that stayed at my place on their way from brittany. gave me great trekking advice and we spent a very nice evening!

plus, got to know a lot of people in Bologna through the local CS meetings

Interests

hiking, mostly in moutains (love it!), learning foreign languages, biking, swimming, reading novels, seeing movies, any kind from any country (including the US) but no Hollywood movies, cooking

  • cooking
  • coach
  • movies
  • reading
  • tv
  • traveling
  • cars
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • swimming
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

right now, reading Erri de Luca 'non ora, no cui" (with french translation on the other page!). simply beautiful. la ninã mala de vargas llosa, Mia Couto, Murakami (Haruki), Javier Marias,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Two solar eclipses. In Mexico in July 1991 and in Normandy (France) in August 1999. Both were several minutes of a wonderful aesthetic and quasi-mystic experience (I believe in nothing).

Countries I’ve Visited

Greece, Japan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, Mexico, United States

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