CURRENT MISSION

To travel around the world on 80 couches...
And make more videos like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU03pP-5mwM&feature=youtu.be

ABOUT ME

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whereonearthisalex/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDOf9O1Qvwxurl2fP1cGmtQ

Traveling is my great passion! Wherever i go i want to mix with local people and try to understand their culture. I like cinema, music and sports (especially basketball). I like having fun, drinking beers and roaming the world...

PHILOSOPHY

Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer! (Anonymous beer philosopher)

Never accept the borders of man! Break the borders!Deny what you see! When dying say:"There is no death"... (Nikos Kazantzakis)

Do not ask whether we are going to win or lose...Fight! (Nikos Kazantzakis)

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." St. Augustine

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." Robert Louis Stevenson

"I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life." - George Best

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I participate by offering a couch at my place making people's trips more "into our way of living". I can also show you around and take you to places which are off the tourist path and are not in any guide (as long as i have the time to do so).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Excellent experience so far!

I HOSTED:
Marianne and Jorn (NETHERLANDS)🇳🇱
Elena (GREECE) 🇬🇷
Victoria (AUSTRALIA) 🇦🇺
Cynthea and Tony (NEW ZEALAND) 🇳🇿
Andrew and Erin (CANADA) 🇨🇦
Melissa (USA) 🇺🇸
Georgios (GREECE) 🇬🇷
Magali and Aurelien (FRANCE) 🇫🇷
Sarah (FRANCE) 🇫🇷
Kazuya and Minami (JAPAN) 🇯🇵
Franziska (SWITZERLAND) 🇨🇭
Sami (JAPAN) 🇯🇵
Ezgi (TURKEY) 🇹🇷
Lee (SOUTH KOREA) 🇰🇷
Michael (USA) 🇺🇸
James (USA) 🇺🇸

I SURFED:
The Spunkand family (Santiago de Compostela-SPAIN) 🇪🇸
Rodrigo (Mexico City-MEXICO) 🇲🇽
Vasiliki (Athens-GREECE) 🇬🇷
Valentina (Vienna-AUSTRIA) 🇦🇹
Irene (Bishkek-KYRGYZSTAN) 🇰🇬
Aram and Shervin (Tehran-IRAN) 🇮🇷
Sveinn (Akureyri-ICELAND) 🇮🇸
Hlynur (Reykjavik-ICELAND) 🇮🇸
Muhammet (Comrat-MOLDOVA) 🇲🇩
Peninah (Nairobi-KENYA) 🇰🇪
Ruth (Naivasha-KENYA) 🇰🇪
Robert (Kampala-UGANDA) 🇺🇬
Raya (Tel Aviv-ISRAEL) 🇮🇱

MET FOR COFFEE/DRINK:
Lianne (Santiago de Cuba-CUBA) 🇨🇺
Ruti and Elad (from ISRAEL) 🇮🇱
Raisa (from BELGIUM) 🇧🇪
Maria (from USA) 🇺🇸
Nicky (from GERMANY) 🇩🇪
Rob/Mark (from SCOTLAND/AUSTRALIA) 🇭🇲
Sertaç (from TURKEY) 🇹🇷

Interests

Traveling, literarure, laughing, cinema, listening to music, playing basketball and sports in general, creating chaos in the kitchen, eating-cooking-learning new recipes from all over the world, photography, trying beers from all over the world, meeting new people, critisising art, learning about world cultures, geography-studying maps, trekking, running, living life with energy, loving to choose life and not life choosing for me (not always succeeding), watching trivia TV shows, trying to find my steps when traveling in a brand new city, taking the night train and waking up somewhere else, mathematics...

• insects
• arts
• culture
• books
• photography
• cooking
• recipes
• beer
• coffee
• running
• nightlife
• drinking
• trivia
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• music
• sports
• basketball
• cartography
• geography
• mathematics
• philosophy
• mountains
• travel

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:
Pink Floyd, Massive Attack, David Bowie, Beatles, Queen, Doors, Jethro Tull, Eloy, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Interpol, Editors, Bob Marley, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, Joy Division, Cure, Iggy Pop, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kasabian, Killers, PJ Harvey, Blur, Tricky, Beatles, The Who, Portishead, Beirut, The Smiths, Cure, Dead can dance, Arcade Fire, White Stripes, Manu Chao, Pulp, Smashing Pumpkins, System of a down, Nick Cave, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Pixies, Happy Mondays, Future Islands...

MOVIES:
The Godfather trilogy, Mulholland Drive, Underground, La Haine, Los olvidados, The Man Without a Past, Woman in the Dunes, Oldboy, 2046, Lost Highway, Belle de Jour, The Usual Suspects, Memento, Seven, In the Mood for Love, Paris Texas, Songs from the Second Floor, Solyaris, Stalker, Fight Club, Dogville, 12 angry men, Volver, The fountain, Head on, Wild strawberries, Oedipus Rex, Juliet of the spirits, Down by law, Hable con ella, Underground, 25th hour, White ribbon, American History X, Raging bull, The fighter, Black Swan, Fargo, Children of paradise, El secreto de sus ojos, Dogtooth, Christ stopped at Eboli, Dancer in the dark, Festen, L'annee derniere a Marienbad, Europa, Strawberry and Chocolate, Taste of cherry...

Favorite Writers:
Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pessoa, Hesse, Kazantzakis, Kafka, Marquez, Rulfo, Fuentes, Llosa, Cela, Ivo Andric, Mishima, Kawabata, Hemingway, Fitzerald, Kundera, Camus, Sabato, Cortazar, Steinbeck, Oscar Wilde, Borges, Oneti, Alejo Carpentier, Em. Roidis, Chatzis, Karagatsis, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Henry James, Homer

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1) Won a 3-point contest
2) Dunked over 3 kids in a slum dunk contest
3) Swam with whalesharks in the open sea in Mexico
4) Visited Varanasi
5) Lived with a Queqchi' family in Guatemala
6) Saw Angkor Wat
7) Experienced San Salvador's notorious nightlife
8) Swam in the Nile river and I am still alive
9) I can make my ears move
10) I read Faulkner's "As I lay dying" without stopping.
11) I ate insects in Thailand
12) I stayed in Chungking Mansion (Hong Kong) and actually loved it.
13) This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU03pP-5mwM&feature=youtu.be
14) Stayed in a yurt, on the mountains of Kyrgyzstan
15) Visited the Galapagos Islands

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Music, habits, recipes, alphabet and basic words of my country...

Learn: Music, habits, recipes, basic words of your country...

Share: Travel stories, bottles of alcohol, laughs, photography tips, experiences...

What I Can Share with Hosts

My beers.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Chile, China, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg

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