Hello everyone! My name is Alex, and my fiancé in the profile photo with me is Rafaela. Nice to meet you! I am from Birmingham in the UK, Rafaela is from Lisbon in Portugal.

We are into travel, hiking, books, movies, good conversation and relaxing with a martini in a beach hammock.

Dlaczego jestem na Couchsurfing

For the last 5 years we were working hard in London, but now we have decided to take some time out and travel around The Iberian Peninsula by car for around 6 weeks.

Throughout this travel we will be looking to connect with local people to get a good idea of the culture of Portugal and Spain, and also to collect stories, recommendations and hopefully new friends.

Therefore I am updating this profile in the hope that we will be able to stay with a few local people on our journey :)

I (Alex) have used Couchsurfing twice, around 6 years ago. Since then the two positive references I collected have gone as the people I stayed with have deleted their accounts.

Zainteresowania

• books
• cooking
• hiking
• travel
• food
• beach
• sport
• film
• sea

Muzyka, filmy i książki

ALEX:

Books
- Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday
- George Orwell - Down & Out in Paris and London
- Noah Harare - Sapiens
- Nassim Taleb - Antifragile

Films
- Blade Runner
- Inception
- Seven
- Parasite
- The Matrix

Musicians
- Miles Davies
- KT Tunstall
- Haim
- Sixto Rodriguez
- Jay Z
- Elvis

RAFALEA:

Books
- Carlo Rovelli - Reality is Not What it Seems
- George Orwell - 1984
- Aldous Huxley - Island

Movies
- Ex-Machina
- Arrival
- Gone Girl

Musicians
- Ana Moura
- Beyonce
- Bob Dylan

Jedna niesamowita rzecz, którą zrobiłem(-am)

I (Alex) studied a masters degree in Maastricht, Netherlands, following this I went to travel and live in Turkey on my own. After this experience my life was never the same - what beautiful countries and culture. One day perhaps I see myself repeating these travels.

Rafaela spent her placement year in the Portuguese Air Force.

Ucz innych, ucz się sam, udostępniaj

I (Alex) am qualified to teach English with a TEFL.

Czym mogę się podzielić z gospodarzami

We would love to cook you some of our favourite recipes!

We are also never short of a book or two, so we would love trade interesting books with you!

Kraje, w których byłem(-am)

Australia, China, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Viet Nam

Kraje, w których mieszkałem(-am)

France, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom