CURRENT MISSION

Looking for my keys.

ABOUT ME

I explore wild countries.

I work as a paleontologist and a geologist.

PHILOSOPHY

All you need is a bit of marmelade for breakfast.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Italy, France, China, Mongolia, USA

Interests

I play theater and piano, I like hiking, caving, jazz music, traveling, and just talking!

• birds
• theater
• dining
• breakfast
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• piano
• hiking
• spelunking
• camping
• rock climbing
• geology
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm fond of modern jazz music, but my playlists are eclectic, from funk, blue-grass to French folk music and hard rock.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Being arrested in Guyana as an illegal immigrant

-Living in an exploration camp in the Gobi Desert

-Working in an Uzbek army base at the border with Afghanistan

-Being followed and spied 24 hours a day by state shadow-men in the forbidden zones of Myanmar

-Digging in the middle of wild Siberia with a Russian archeological team

-Surviving in the Amazonian jungle for two weeks with a French border control squade

-Climbing an Indonesian volcano by night during a eruption with the lights of the lava flows

-Crossing the desert at the Kenyo-Ethiopian border on the top of a cattle truck with Sudanese illegal refugees

-Looking for unknown birds and pygmee elephants in the deep jungle of Borneo in a lost scientific base with a venturer ornithologist

-Surviving the -50 degrees Celsius during the winter in Ulaan Bataar

-Many others things !

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach. And I can tell you anything you want about the local history and geology.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Fun, Food, and Friendship

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guyana, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Réunion, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, French Guiana, Mongolia, United States

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