CURRENT MISSION

Explore Central-Eastern Europe

ABOUT ME

Idealist/Realist, very curious and easily surprised. Patient, calm, sometimes adventurous. I usually try to find the good side to any situation. I enjoy going out and meeting up with very different people, I know I could learn something new from every personI meet even if I only realize it years later.

PHILOSOPHY

"if you travel to take, you're a tourist. If you travel to give, you're a pilgrim."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I couchsurf occasionally, meet up with the local CS community, host when I'm available and am open for questions, answers and enquiries about nothing and everything at the same time.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I Couch surfed in Brussels, Haifa, Cologne and Strasbourg. I hosted amazing travelers in the Netherlands, Romania and Luxembourg. Also took part in several couch surfing meetings in Luxembourg. A lot of my friends are also couchsurfers, and most couchsurfers I have met could also be my friends.

Interests

People, Books, Sailing, Surfing, Windsurfing, Nature, the Ocean, Mountains, Wildlife, Art, Music, Photography, Food, Cooking, Traditions, Philosophy, Psychology, History, Architecture, Alternative ways of life, Woodworking, Crafts, Nature, Farming, Ecology, Politics, Random debates about all sorts of things

• wildlife
• arts
• books
• architecture
• photography
• perfumes
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• crafts
• boating
• politics
• traveling
• woodworking
• music
• cycling
• kayaking
• windsurfing
• surfing
• sailing
• rowing
• ecology
• history
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Everything is Illuminated, The Graduate, Wristcutters, Brat, Animal House, Meu Nome Nao e Johnny, Diarios de Motocicleta, 2 days in Paris, Whatever Works, Die Fälscher

Music: The Strokes, Sufkan Stevens, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Gogol Bordello, John Lee Hooker, The Killers, Kino, Manu Chao, Death Cab for Cutie, Splean, Bob Dylan, The Arcade Fire, Devendra Banhart, Eddy Rosner, Of Monsters and Men, Olafur Arnalds, Bon Iver

Books: Theft: A Love Story (Peter Carey), The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Michael Chabon), Absurdistan (Gary Shteyngart), The First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), A White Merc with Fins (James Hawes), On the Road - The Sharma Bums (Jack Kerouac), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), The Year of the Lie (Andrey Gelasimov), The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), 2666 (R. Bolano) and anything by Andrey Kurkov, Ludmila Ulitskaya and Aarto Paasilinna.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Surfing in a storm

Taken a walk at four in the morning right before the white nights in St Petersburg, Russia

Taken a kayak down the Gorges du Verdon

Gorged myself on scavenged Mirabels right off the tree in Luxembourg

Seen wild pigs while cycling at the middle of the woods in Saxony

Helped friends build a boat

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: French, English, a bit of Russian and Spanish, German; Basic Vegetarian Cooking; bits and pieces of History, heaps of random facts, some stretching techniques I use to keep feeling good when I travel and also when I don't

Learn: Sailing, Rowing, Yoga, Photography, Holding my Breath Under Water, and anything u can offer

Share: all of the above

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook. tell a story or two, hear yours and go explore with you

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, France, Germany, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Russian Federation

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