ABOUT ME

Hello! My name is Annelies and I live in Oudenaarde which is a beautiful small city situated in the heart of the Flemish Ardennes and about 30 kilometers away from Ghent. My life is about travelling and expect couchsurfing to help me in meeting more people who are caught by the same "travelling spirit".

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to attend local activities, hang out, surf couches abroad and hopefully also host people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far I attend 1 really nice activity in the city of Ghent which surely convinced me to attend some more. The activity had a nice mix of people and I was a bit nervous but knew from the first 5 minutes this was the kind of experience I like. So more will follow.

Interests

travelling - music - books - dancing - nature - architecture - photography - new experiences - cooking - food - languages - live jazz - salsa - conversations in a bar with a good glass of wine ...

• culture
• books
• architecture
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• languages
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Hable con ella, La piel que habito, Volver (and many others of Pedro Almodóvar), Loft, De helaasheid der dingen, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Seven, ...
Books: La casa de los espíritus (Isabel Allende), El Cuaderno de Maya (Isabel Allende), El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), El sombre del viento (Carlos Ruiz Zafón), The kite runner (Khaled Hosseini), ... and so many more.
Music: dEUS, Absynthe Minded, Arsenal, ... and so many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the trips I will surely never forget is my trip to India ... When going hiking in Mt Abu I twisted my food ... got an Indian healing from my guide ... had to go to the hospital … and spent the next 3 weeks travelling with painkillers that did not really help … my love for India (people, food, culture, …) was way too big to just give up and go home. Hope to return there one day and explore more!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Cambodia, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium