CURRENT MISSION

go to Mongolia and ride wild horses

ABOUT ME

likes: learning restaurant menus by heart, getting new stamps in my passport, being to the point while speaking & writing, doing many things at the same time, getting tired, eating spicy food and pretending it's not spicy at all, overtaking everyone on the way up when climbing a mountain, quiz-games, south park, talking about music.
dislikes: being tight-fisted, giving up, being extremely shy, people who move their lips when reading, people who can't count in their heads (e.g. use their fingers for that)

PHILOSOPHY

we must cultivate our garden

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm not really original here, I host and I surf.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had my first CS experience while travelling in SE Asia in 2009 and this was worth million times more than staying at hostels/guesthouses. Captivated by the idea and its realisation, together with my girlfriend Iwona, we decided to open our Edinburgh's abode to couchsurfers in the summer of 2010 and...we got literally flooded with requests. It resulted in meeting a multitude of diverse, but always interesting people. When the summer was gone and it was high time for our holiday, we went for a wonderful and illuminating couchsurfing trip on the Balkan Peninsula. In 2011 I took advantage of living in a spacey condo in Singapore and transformed it into a small couchsurfing hub (interestingly, Singapore as a city itself is widely used as a travel hub in SE Asia). This gave me a chance to host both short-term (Asia-based) and really long-term travelers (one couple was during their 2-year odyssey). After that it was my turn: I was couchsurfing in Cambodia and in India, which added an incredible value to each of the traveling experiences (especially to the latter). Recently, I've left a fresh couchsurfing footprint in Hungary.

Interests

biology, music, literature, cinema, philosophy, history, cooking, eating (especially local food), drinking (especially anything), wine/enology, squash, tennis, scuba diving, hillwalking, snowboarding, iTunes University

• horses
• writing
• literature
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• drinking
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• stamps
• music
• scuba diving
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• tennis
• racquetball
• biology
• history
• long-term travel
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: The Return; Burnt by the Sun; The Seventh Seal; Blow up
music: Weather Report, Miles Davis, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Jan Garbarek, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson, Booker Little
books: Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann; Stranger by Albert Camus; Candide: or, Optimism by Voltaire; Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzenicyn, The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

still to come

Teach, Learn, Share

I will learn anything you are keen to teach me. I can teach you how to play squash, how to taste wine and how to speak Polish.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Singapore, United Kingdom