Last spring I left Moscow and went travelling with no plan and no route. I had been carrying this idea (dream) for about two years. I am staying in different countries for one-two months. Istanbul, Patras, Skopje etc. Next place to go is Trapani. Sometimes I stop in a city for a couple of days on my way to the next destination to look around and to meet nice people there.

I love writing, reading, music, bars. I am a smoker but I don't make non-smokers suffer from my habit. I am gay so I expect people I meet to be gay-friendly.

Since I am travelling now, I cannot host anyone in Moscow but sometimes I may have an extra couch in my current airbnb apartment.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've used Courchsurfing five times so far and I loved it - eager to meet new people from different places, listen to their stories about their traveling experience and local life. Couchsurfing makes me a little bit local in a place I am visiting.

Interests

Languages, teaching, reading, art (painting - Dutch guys, music - old school, classical, many other things), history & culture.

• arts
• culture
• books
• theater
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• teaching
• history
• languages
• psychology
• sociology
• dutch
• exploring
• learning
• france
• europe
• space
• asia
• germany

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Queen, Guns N'Roses, Led Zepplin, Beatles, Shirley Bassey, Elton John, Red Hot Chili Peppers, ABBA, Killers, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour. Edith Piaf, Muse, Moby etc.

Movies: Zeffirelli, Almodóvar, Ozon, Honoré, Fassbinder, Herzog etc.

Books: The Buddenbrooks (Th.Mann), Vanity Fair (W.Thackeray), The Reader (B.Schlink), novels & stories by Maugham, I. Bunin, O.Henry etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Teaching English to Vietnamese kids, walking Camino de Santiago, strolling around through Manila deep at night

Teach, Learn, Share

Everything I know. Not that I know a lot, but there's something I picked at my university and got from my trips.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Travel experience, cultural knowledge, language skills, stories of any kind, beer/wine

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, Philippines, Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, Viet Nam