CURRENT MISSION

fly higher and higher and higher.......

ABOUT ME

Hey people, my name is Andreu. im a catalan around barcelona who tries to join this cool webpage ( i see there is already a big community from my area here) im 28 years old, graduated at university in chemistry but my traveller soul was stronger than my scientist soul so i work on the air in the exciting world of airlines. first in sweden and now in England. obviously i like travelling, as everybody here, but also i like.... well, just common things everybody writes here. so, why to repeat the topics? im always interested and ready to learn about new countries. my curiosity is never finished in this aspect. meeting people from different countries is always great for me. specially when i can show them a little about Barcelona or they can show me a little of their city or their country. it lets me have a richer and more open opinion about reality of the countries. about reality of the world.

PHILOSOPHY

my phylosophy is as complex as my mind. but i guess we can review it in these very simple words " open your mind, enjoy and be happy". to open my mind, i travel and try to meet as many people as possible. i learn from them. from their experiences, knowledge, culture, country,.... my mentality becomes more open and richer. then i enjoy. i enjoy life, having fun with the best close friends, and then i smile and im happy. happy of living in this fascinating world that shows something new to me every day.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

After some long time not being able to offer accomodation, im glad to say i can offer it again, this time in England. When living in Sweden i have hosted a lot of people (with some of them keeping nice friendship) and some also hosted me in my trips. also i have been guest few times. When i was still in Catalonia i liked to show Barcelona to the foreign people and i did it when an online friend from other countries came to visit me. i dont pretend to be a professional guide but i do my best to show the city so people can enjoy Barcelona as much as i do.I hope i can do the same here in England. or you can come anyways and we explore around together as there may be still many places i dont know yet. mainly, depending if im not very busy in that moment or im flying somewhere in europe because of my job. so i can be free to attend you as well as i can, or i can try to meet you or at least i invite you to a drink,exchange trip experiences or if you are Barça fan,we talk about next football match hehe. so dont doubt to ask whatever you want if you ever pass around here in one of your trips. it will be my pleasure to help.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i have only few CS experience yet. so sad, i know. but ive met some online foreign people in some of my trips who hosted me and showed me their country, and others who have been hosted in my house and i showed them barcelona and other places of Catalonia when possible

people from Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia,France,Croatia,Greece, Hungary.... they all stayed in my house or i showed my country to them

but i like this CS idea very much, so i hope that i can soon enjoy it with some experiences

among the few people i hosted or been hosted already in CS are:

Peter Hawes (Belgium)----- hosted in Barcelona
Dimitris Dermanis (Greece)---- hosted in Barcelona
Dobrisa Coh (Croatia)------ been hosted by in Croatia
Pedro Martins (Brazil)----- hosted in Barcelona
Attila Szalmas (Hungary)---- met x 3 times and been hosted by in Hungary

Pawel Krzepina & girlfriend (Poland) ------ hosted in Sweden and been hosted by in Poland

Rafal Stepien (Poland)------- hosted in Sweden x2 and been hosted by in Poland

Dace Saltane (Latvia)-------- hosted in Sweden
Markus Pellhammer (Germany) ------- hosted in Sweden x2
Paulius Davydavicius (Lithuania)----- hosted in Sweden
Jannar Jürisson (Estonia)----- been hosted by
Ernesta Kaveckaite (Lithuania) ---- hosted in Sweden
Dovydas Zakas (Lithuania)------ been hosted by in Lithuania

Didzis Stavausis and friend (Latvia)------ hosted in Sweden

Pavel Gubin (Russia) ------------ hosted in Sweden
Max Neves (Brazil)--------------- hosted in Sweden
Brecht Deriemaeker (Belgium)--------------- hosted in Sweden

Toms Pastors (Latvia)------------- hosted by in Latvia
Elvis Tupcijenko (Latvia)--------- hosted by in Latvia
Grzegorz Ruta (Poland)------------ hosted in Sweden x2
Felix Fuchs (Germany)------------- hosted in Sweden
Gustav Sjöstedt (Sweden)---------- hosted by in Sweden
Christian Sjödahl (Sweden)-------- hosted by in Sweden
Torben West Christiansen (Denmark)-- met in Denmark
Leon Sütfeld and friend (Germany)---- hosted in Sweden
Ronan Vaineau and sister (France)----- hosted in Sweden
Martin Nikolov (Bulgaria)-------- hosted by in Bulgaria
Nikos Ioannou (Greece)----------- hosted by in Greece
Hans Brox (Norway)--------------- hosted by in Norway
Claus[nonkonformist](Austria)----- hosted in Sweden
Ludger Hellweg (Germany)---------- hosted by in Germany
Andrea Miola (Italy)------------- hosted in Sweden
Kasper Nowak (Austria)----------- hosted by in Austria
Ira Lysenko (Poland)------------- met in Poland
Ram Vadi (Canada)---------------- hosted in Sweden
Thomas Pereira (Ireland)--------- hosted by in Dublin
Xavi Arnau (Ireland)------------- hosted by in Dublin
Piotr Hachula (Poland)----------- Hosted by in Poland and hosted him in Spain

Stefan Hyun Lee (England)-------- Hosted by in England
Emilio Casalicchio (England)----- Hosted by in England

Interests

im interested many things that seem not very related with eachother. typical of a messy mind like mine. i studied chemistry, so im interested in it and in science in general. im also interested in history, specially ancient history and middle ages ( im sorry i know i talk too much about history when i show barcelona to someone), and a little bit in politics. but im not working in any revolution to make Catalonia become independent yet. i like music. i play violin but classical is not really my stuff. im mostly into rock and latino pop music but i like whatever sounds good. not closeminded to one style. movies, reading.... all this yes. i also like sports. specially football and basketball and of course FC Barcelona fan forever although its not a good time for us recently. i love the beach. i live on the coast and the beach is only 10 minutes walking from my house. i like to go there even if its not for swimming. i like sangria and i like caipirinhas. so, you will never find me in a bar,restaurant or disco where i cant drink this. fortunately its quite difficult to find one without caipirinhas in barcelona. and of course im interested in travelling and all this. i always try to do 2 or 3 trips every year

• culture
• walking
• drinking
• flying
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• violin
• sports
• basketball
• soccer
• swimming
• chemistry
• teaching
• history
• science
• tourism
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

i like all kinds of music. from rock, pop, brazilian, latino, reaggee, jazz,... even a little bit of classical as i play violin. it always depends on my mood. about books, i like fantasy, science fiction, thrillers and historic ficcion books. now im in the hard mission of trying to read the second part of "the pillars of the earth" by ken follet in english. hard work. it will take ages but i will manage to do it

Teach, Learn, Share

things to teach mmmm...... not many. basically because i think i wouldnt be a good teacher

things to learn... everything. we can always learn something from everything. never too late for that

and about sharing, i will share with pleasure whatever i have in each the moment

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

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