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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, Greek (modern), Swedish
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Electrician
  • MSc Architecture: Advanced Science & Environment
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 80% complete

About Me

A positive, up-beat and all-round friendly guy. Have grown to be very social with strangers and easily get along with. Laid-back, free spirited attitude with grand dreams. Happy to give others my time.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Looking to meet interesting people whilst on my journeys around this epic world!

Interests

Cycling gravel roads and roads.
Airsoft (its like paintball but better)
Drumming
Running
Live music, music and art culture, psychedelic culture (Ozora Festival)
Investment
Reading
Gaming
Electrics and electronics (I have a lot to learn)
Building houses, especially sustainably and with long sighted decisions on the material construct and lifetime cycle of materials.

Music, Movies, and Books

I am a musician. A drummer. Love funk-rock, heavy rock, melodic tunes, blues, RnR, electronic psychedelic, Jazz (live only),
There are only 2 types of music, good and bad music.
If I was to pick a few artists: Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, The Beatles, Shpongle, O.T.T....too many to name.

Books: Cradle to Cradle, Earthship Biotecture, Emergency Sandbag Shelter, Shantaram, The Law of Success in 16 Lessons, The Wealthy Barber, The Magic of Believing, The Secrets of The Universe, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Hidden Truth Forbidden Knowledge..

Movies, series:
Sci-fi!!! topics of space exploration, future Earth.

Interstellar, Expanse, Westworld, Farscape, Handmades Tale, Rick n Morty,..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Part funded a project to bring solar power to a deprived village in Zambia.
Self built a low-carbon, locally sourced(material) 'sustainable' summer house in Sweden.
Have self renovated a house, Sweden.

Teach, Learn, Share

Have been a board member for a non-for-profit company called New Earth UK that builds emergency shelters and outdoor structures for a variety of clients and those in need. The building form is called Super Adobe and takes on the dome structure, built from the earth around the site. The structures are : earthquake,tornado, tsunami and hurricane resistant. The structures have also proven to be ideal for front line medics in war situations.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden, United Kingdom

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