Always wanting to discover new places, cultures and meeting people to experience something new. I'm laidback, open, adapting a bit to other people, can be calm, but also like spontaneous weird ideas.
I like the nature and the outdoors as much as the business, diversity and culture of a city. I like going for a drink and talk at a bar or pub, see live music at a venue or festival, go out dancing, make a hike or camping trip in nature. Or stay home cook some nice food, play a boardgame, watch a movie...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Get to know all kinds of different people and through them get to know a place or culture.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Twice had someone staying with me and my housemates, whom turned out to become really good friends of ours.
In Thailand I stayed over with the local families of two friends! It was great to see the way they live, be shown around, go to the temple with them, have dinner and get some explanation about their culture.
While settling in in Melbourne, AU and Christchurch, NZ I surfed with several people to make friends and learn about the place and also went to some meet ups.

Interests

Travelling, camping, outdoor sports like hiking, mountainbiking, surfing, snowboarding, climbing, running, play football in the park; architecture & urbanism, art & design, politics; non commercial music in many styles, festivals, underground style parties, things specific to a city or culture

• arts
• culture
• architecture
• design
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• running
• partying
• drinking
• pub crawls
• politics
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• live music
• commercial music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• snowboarding
• sports
• rock climbing
• soccer
• track and field
• business
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

indie rock/pop, singer-songwriter, rock, hiphop that is musical, old school hiphop, techno, minimal and electro, 60's rock/pop, some reggae or folk
The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Jack Peñate, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Vaccines Manu Chao, Buena Vista Social Club, The Cat Empire, Sigur Ros, Björk, Emiliana Torrini, Noah and the Whale, The National, Incubus, Muse, The Kooks, Michael Franti, Mumford and Sons, John Butler Trio, Johnny Cash, Spinvis, Wir Sind Helden, The Naked and Famous, The Postal Service
Beastie Boys, Kyteman's hiphop orchestra, Peter Fox/Seeed, Ghostpoet, Pete Philly and Perquisite
Soulwax, Daft Punk, Deadmau5, James Blake, Justice, Bloody Beetroots, Goose, Boemklatsch, Calvin Harris, Prodigy, Paul Kalkbrenner, Trentemoller

In general I like art house movies. I always forget titles of movies, but here are some: Inception, Into the Wild, Pulp Fiction, Memento, Abre los Ojos, Goodbye Lenin, Die Fette Jahre sind vorbei/The Educators, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Inglorious Bastards

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing on a via ferrata track on the Montserrat mountain near Barcelona, Catalonia; a 4WD camping trip on Fraser Island, Australia; playing Ninja Destruction (a game) with a bunch of backpackers and locals in a park in Melaka, Malaysia

Teach, Learn, Share

Exchange languages, cooking skills. Do sports together. I could teach some snowboarding though that's difficult while couchsurfing. I still want to learn to dance salsa some day and improve anything I can already do a bit.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, San Marino, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain