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Overview

  • 8 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning Spanish
  • 43, Other
  • Member since 2011
  • Journalist and Software Engineer
  • bachelor's degrees from University in Australia
  • From Adelaide, Australia and Wuhan, China
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Travel around Europe, work and live in the UK and more as we go

ABOUT ME

We are a married couple traveling around the world. We worked in Sydney in the past 5,6 years before we decided to quit our jobs and to start on an around the world trip, as part of our mission of living life to the fullest! We are easygoing and open minded, and passionate about traveling, photography, enjoying food from different countries, meeting new friends and sharing travel experiences and stories with fellow travelers.

PHILOSOPHY

Live life, enjoy life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surfing couches initially to know and understand lives and cultures in different countries

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

During our trip we met many people that are active members in the CS community and have strongly recommended us to try it. We've just done our first couch surf in Budapest, and we love it. We would like to continue couching surfing in other parts of the world.

Interests

Yun: Travel, books, movies, tennis, food and photography

Andre: Travel, Board Games (namely euro games), Books (mainly, but not limited to sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, horror. I like escapism when I read), The Mighty Boosh, Movies (huge movie buff, love geeky and art house movies, love keeping track of whats coming out years before it actually does), photography, foods of the world (I'm as much a food tourist as I am a traveler), computers (programming, games, and creating games!), there's more, but I cant think right now.

  • arts
  • books
  • photography
  • dining
  • cooking
  • movies
  • board games
  • traveling
  • magic
  • surfing
  • tennis
  • track and field

Music, Movies, and Books

Yun's favorite books: Life of Pi, The Kite Runner, Eat Pray Love, Marley and Me

Andre's favorite books: The Dark Tower series, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Song of Fire and Ice series

Yun's favorite music: Coldplay, Pop, Jazz

Andre's favorite music: rock and pretty much everything else, especially if there's nice guitar in it

Yun's favorite movies: A lot

Andre's favorite movies: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, George Romero's Living Dead series, Shaun of the Dead, Space Balls and all other Mel Brooks movies, anything Monty Python, Evil Dead trilogy, Lord of the Rings, and so much more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Yun: Bungy Jumping in New Zealand's Nevas Canyon

Andre: Exploring the beautiful and dynamic parts and cultures of the huge country that is China

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach you some Chinese, how to cook spicy central Chinese dishes, some card tricks and "black" magic, some of our basic photography knowledge, some computer programming if you really want :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, United Kingdom

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