Dutch history teacher living in Zwolle, an old Hanze town at the river IJssel and about an hour from Amsterdam. Really close to Giethoorn (famous for being the so called "Venice of the North").

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet new people and to travel even longer on a budget.

Interests

• music festivals
• traveling
• music
• football
• museums

Music, Movies, and Books

Music I listen to according to my Spotify stats:

The National, Arcade Fire, Balthazar, Tame Impala, Fontaines D.C., Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Sam Fender, Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Michael Kiwanuka and The War on Drugs..

And from the older stuff: Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, The Cure, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, CCR and my favorite blues artist Stevie Ray Vaughan ;)

Movies that comes to mind that I really like: Das Leben Der Anderen and Groundhog Day.. Should I mention A Serbian Film (probably not)?

Netflix series that I watch or have watched: The Crown, House of Cards, Designated Survivor, Peaky Blinders (My favorite), Lupin, Narcos, Sex Education, Outlander and La Casa de Papel (or Money Heist for you Americans ;)).

If I read books those are most likely to be historical.. stuff like the biography of Napoleon and the history of football, chocolate or toilet paper..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Been on a project in the Himalayas (India) that involved teaching (mathematics although I'm really really really bad at math and a bit of English).

Also stayed (and slept) in a room that was full of spiders (some of them were the size of my hand).

Also ate snails at the market in Marrakesh (don't know if that counts as amazing).

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands