I like reading, learning how nature works, drawing, painting, taking pictures, growing cacti and succulents, breeding beetles, millipedes and scorpions, watching movies, visiting museums and going hiking and camping. Other fields of interest include small tropical fish (i also have several aquaria at home with small South-american and Asian fish), tropical and carnivorous plants, the use of plants in general (ethnobotanica), gardening, cooking, playing the jew's harp and learning about pre-industrial technologies and crafts going back as far as the stone age.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to travel and meet people with similar interests, and hopefully make a lot of new friends

Interests

• insects
• aquaria
• architecture
• painting
• drawing
• anthropology
• ecology
• historic sites
• art
• bushcraft
• landscape architecture
• surrealism
• ethnic music
• botanical gardens
• ethnic food
• landscape photography
• flora & fauna
• tropical fish
• macrophotography
• beetles
• ethnobotanica
• cacti & succulents
• prehistoric sites
• pre-roman archeology
• hyperrealism
• takashi amano

Music, Movies, and Books

music: 30's & 40's big band jazz, django reinhardt, dick dale, jefferson airplane, the mamas and the papas, the doors, johnny cash, balkan jazz, sainkho, huun huur tu, eels, the gorillaz, beck, tiefschwarz, booka shade, the chemical brothers, fatboy slim, dark nebula, penta, para halu, organoise, kasatka, antagon, amras, insector, dark whisper, zik, polyphonia, cosmo and many, many more
movies: House of Flying Daggers, Zatoichi, Koyaanisqatsi, Microcosmos, Planet Earth, Human Planet, every documentary by sir Attenborough, almost everything by Stanley Kubrick, Kim Ki Duk, Tarantino, the Coen brothers and Emir Kusturica, Black Sheep, Rubber, Star Wars, Mars Attacks, Tideland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, ...
books:The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren, Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist, Shamanism & Tantra in the Himalayas by C.Rätsch and C.Müller-Ebeling and Wild Food by Ray Mears

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked the Tschingellochtighorn, near Engstligenalp in Switzerland, where i watched crystals grow at the foot of a fabulous castle-like mountain.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach and wish to learn more myself about fish and invert husbandry and breeding; plant propagation and pruning techniques, in particular for cacti and succulents; bushcraft; primitive technology; ethnobotanica and ecology.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm a very good cook and gardener, i can also perform any household chore, like doing the dishes, cleaning your stormdrains or anything in between

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium