Hi, I'm Babette. I'm born in summer, I really love summer. And spring. I'm 24 and always on the run. There's something about adventure, campfires and live-music. It's the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.”
- Henry Rollings

Interests

Horses, I like the way they reflect how you feel inside and how they can confront you with sometimes subconscious struggles. I like the power that they carry with them and how close they can get you to nature.

Society and arts: how can you be an artist and not reflect the times? (Nina Simone)

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Nahko Bear, Ben Howard, Manu Chao, Xavier Rudd, Einaudi, Joni Mitchell

Movies: Diarios de motocicleta, Cidade de Deus, The graduate, Zeitgeist, Before sunrise, Boyhood, Jeux interdits, This way of life, Into the wild, Dances with wolves, Hidalgo, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Vivre sa vie, Noces

Books: Greek tragedies, Sylvia Plath, Warsan Shire, Oscar Wilde, Rumi, Thoreau, Atwood, Krakauer, Baricco, Coelho

And other interesting people: Che Guevara, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Anna Karina, Emma Watson, Johnny Depp, Leonardo di Caprio, Vigo Mortensen, Shakira, Troian Bellisario, Rinus van de Velde, Michaël Borremans, Ethan Hawke

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There's something amazing everywhere. This year I decided to take off to New Zealand for a month. Out of the blue on my own. It was the best decision I've ever made

Teach, Learn, Share

"Some men are wicked, some are wonderful - but each one is the same as they teach you in a different way" (Dustin Thomas)

Countries I’ve Visited

Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium