My husband and I are slowly cycling around the world : from France to Quebec, Canada, through Europe, Asia and Americas.

We already did several bike trips together : in Canada, Japan, France, and Cuba. We want to go slow, and enjoy every little detail on road. We have a small tente and usually ask people if we an settle for a night in their garden or a public space... we have made tons of great meetings !

We love couchsurfing to find people that might have time to spend with us, and talk about their country, their life... and it’s always nice to rest in a peaceful place, with a roof sometimes.

We can cook meals for you :)

I have always been interested in human complexity : body, gesture, ideas and hopes, how we could be connected and how we create our own path.
I'm an anthropologist, and recently I became a urban designer too. I'm mostly a sensitive, creative and curious woman, learning and trying and failing again and again.

I grew up in a small village, far from any city and lost in some west part of France, then I lived in Brasil for a while, spent some years in Paris and finally chose to settle in Montreal... a city that I truly love.

* I'm not schizophrenic, I just have two first names :
/ I'm Audrey for my french and canadian friends
/I go by Lise, my second name, in Brasil and in all other latin langages...
You can choose the one you like the best :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My first backpacker travel was ten years ago, in Romania, with a lot of energy and two great friends but no money at all, as we had spent all your saving in our plane tickets. We hitchhiked from place to place, being hosted by very generous and kind people, sharing their daily life for a little time... I could not imagine another way to explore a region and learn about a culture.
After that travel, I left my village for a small town and started hosting people, friends of friends at the beginning... Then I discovered different networks that were extending this incredible hosting system to the entire world, and my informal hospitality became

Interests

I do love
biking, even during the snowy winter
taking care of people
getting lost in a new city
gardening
making short movies
being involved in collective projects
painting and drawing
climbing mountains
learning new langages
making ceramics
writing poetry and diaries
sending handmade letters
trying something new
planing future travels
building stuff in wood
dancing and wandering

Theatre. Permaculture. Languages. You.
Rituals. Literature. Yurts. Hitchhiking.

Anthropology. Cities.
Abandonned places.
Rivers, lakes and montains.

Bodies and trees.
Writting. Large canevases for painting, miniatures ones.
Empty places.

• literature
• cooking
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• music
• hiking
• swimming
• anthropology
• languages
• hitchhiking
• rivers
• cinema
• permaculture
• organic gardening
• ceramics
• snailmail

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm trying to keep those lists short but it's a real head ( and heart) breaks

// Arto Linday, Nils Frahms, Leonard Cohen, Beirut, Ratatat, Aline, Bowie, Bach, Tame Impala, Son Lux, Nina Simone, Lhasa, Portishead, Jay Jay Johanson, Lila Down, Aretha Franklin

// Paolo Sorrentino, Ingmar Bergman, Antonioni, Fatih Akın, Jacques Tati, Truffaut, Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Kubrick, Almodovar, Fellini, Tony Gatlif, Buñuel, Kusturica, Lynch, Innaritu

// Romain Gary, Lagarce, Maïakovski, Kim Thuy, Réjean Ducharme, Jodorowsky, Bernard Marie Koltès, Kated Yacine, Julio Cortazar, Edward Bond, Kundera, Peter Handke, Marguerite Duras, Georges Perec, Baudelaire, Artaud, Kossi Efoui, Selma Lagerlof, Nancy Huston, Nicolas Bouvier, Mathias Enard, Boris Vian, Daniel Pennac...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It depends on who looks at it...
Let's share about the small and amazing things that we all have done
over a perfumed cup of tea

Teach, Learn, Share

speaking french
cooking with condiments, creativity and intuition
old french and brazilian songs
making origami birds
creating experimental movies
sending letters with little surprises in it

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Martinique, Mexico, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, France

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