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ABOUT ME

I love travelling. Period. So much so that i've quit a career in banking and am travelling around till my money runs out. After that, we'll see....

PHILOSOPHY

If you tell grown-ups, "I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves on the roof...," they won't be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, "I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs." Then they exclaim, "What a pretty house!" - The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

"Anywhere! Anywhere! So long as it is out of the world" - Baudelaire

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons" - Douglas Adams

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life - John Lennon

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think - Rumi

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland - Woody Allen

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy - Socrates (the footballer, not the philosopher)

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence - Garry Trudeau

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music - Friedrich Nietzsche

Wandering the face of the Earth, Wondering what our dreams might be worth, Learning that we're only immortal, For a limited time - We're only at home when we're on the fly, On the fly - Rush ('Dreamline')

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them - The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams - Dr. Suess

Kate: Did you know that there are four hundred and fifty-two official government cheeses in this country? Don't you think that's incredible? To come up with four hundred and fifty-two ways of classifying what is basically a bacterial process?
Luc: You would prefer one cheese? One cheeseburger to put it on and one restaurant to eat it in?
(French Kiss)

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can - Cary Grant

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat - Peter Sellers

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea - Douglas Adams

I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgments make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain - Bill Clinton

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative – Maurice Chevalier

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover - Mark Twain

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would have been peace - John Lennon

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts the moment you get up and doesn't stop until you get into the office - Robert Frost

Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else - Lyndon B. Johnson

In the (plane) cabin, no one stands up to announce with requisite emphasis that, out of the window, we are flying over a cloud, a matter that would have detained Leonardo, Poussin, Claude and Constable - Alain de Botton

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams

I decided to go on diet; in 2 weeks I lost 14 days - Tim Maia

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it - Charles M. Schulz

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve - George Bernard Shaw

If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space - Carl Sagan

Life is pretty tough, but just think how much tougher it would be if you couldn't sleep a third of it away

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on - Bob Newhart

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first - Peter Ustinov

A day without laughter is a day wasted - Charlie Chaplin

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same - Oscar Wilde

A bold wine with a hint of sophistication and lacking in pretension - Kate (French Kiss)

Love the life you live, live the life you love - Bob Marley

Those large and beautiful ships, invisibly balanced on tranquil waters, those hardy ships that look dreamy and idle, don't they seem to whisper to us in silent tongues: When shall we set sail for happiness?" - Baudelaire

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like meeting people in the places I travel to using CS

Centres d'intérêt

Reading, Travelling, Music (Pink Floyd, Led Zep), Movies, Running, Day dreaming

• birds
• singing
• beauty
• dancing
• wine
• cheese
• dieting
• running
• flying
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• sailing
• economics
• philosophy

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Little Prince, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, 84 Charing Cross, In Cold Blood

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Gobi Desert, Machu Picchu, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Turkish Baths in Budapest, Iran...

Pays que j'ai visités

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

France, India, United Kingdom

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