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Overview

  • 32 references 21 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Portuguese
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • PhD, cyclist, traveller, epidemiologist and pharmacist, p...
  • PhD degree in Epidemiology and Public health UCL, Pharmac...
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About Me

Travelling right now

CURRENT MISSION
Understanding inequalities in health
Living the present

ABOUT ME
I can't relate in a superficial way. I'm very simple, I love cycling, hiking, climbing, hot springs, quality time with family and friends, mountains, outdoors in general. Cinema lover but not good retaining names and I can watch several times the same movie without problems.
I moved to London in 2017 from Santiago, Chile. I was working as a coordinator of research projects in public health, and I started a PhD in epidemiology and Public Health at University College of London.
You can see some of my amateur pics in:
http://www.instagram.com/pasosolar

PHILOSOPHY
This also will change

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Travelling, hosting and sharing time with travellers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I have met really nice peoples, really fun and lovely friendships

Interests

I love to be in nature, sometimes alone, sometimes in small groups. I love to be with friends and family, I love my work and my free time.

  • dogs
  • photography
  • dancing
  • lgbt rights
  • vegetarian
  • yoga
  • clubbing
  • bouldering
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • swimming
  • hitchhiking
  • beaches
  • cinema
  • friends
  • forests
  • going out
  • public health
  • queer
  • climbing
  • healthy food
  • research
  • epidemiology
  • animals rights

Music, Movies, and Books

The favourite, Kill Bill, Pulp fiction, Delicatessen, Las alas del deseo, Blue velvet, Lost highway, big fish, American beauty, the cave of forgotten dreams, the grizzly man, into the wild, Herzog, Lars von Trier, David Lynch, Cronenberg, Almodovar....

James Blake, The Smiths, Will oldham, cocorosie, fleet foxes, Los Jaivas, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Nirvana, Dead can dance, Massive attack, Portishead, Tricky, Gal Costa, Nina Simone, bjork, naçao zumbi...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I navigated up the Napo River- Amazonas jungle- from Peru to Ecuador for 10 days sleeping in a hammock, watching piranhas, crocodiles, anacondas, macaws.

I travelled alone for five months by Bolivia and Brazil, the Salar de Uyuni, through the transpantaneira, sleeping in my tent up and down the coastline of Bahia, sunbathing with beautiful friends in Rio de Janeiro, hitchhiking from Santiago to Arica and from Buenos Aires to Santiago. Coming back home with a long beard.

Vipassana.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share travel tips, share a good talk, veggie recipes, biostatistics, R

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good talks, nice vibes, good cuisine recipes, a cycle sometimes, travel tips.

I'm living in a tiny shared house at this moment, so I can't host. But I can be an amazing city guide.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Chile, England

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