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Overview

  • 18 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 62, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Computer consultant
  • University
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Sail arround the world

ABOUT ME

Travel has been a life long passion. Even at the age of two I wanted to explore the world. My parents had to tie me to a long rope in the garden to prevent me from wandering of! In 2004 I decided to quit my work as a computer consultant and became a full time traveler. That is of course as long as the money lasts. I now have time to travel a bit more slowly. I like to stay in countries for more extended periods and get to know them a bit better. In that way I spent two years sailing near Corfu in Greece, spent half a year on a remote island in between New Zealand and Tonga and stayed a couple of years in Argentina. This year, 2012, I crossed the Atlantic and settled on the island of La Palma in the Canaries. I really like the concept of Couchsurfing. It proved to be a good way to have completely new experiences.

PHILOSOPHY

Never miss the possibility to fulfill your dreams, it will give you space for new ones!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

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  • gardening
  • traveling
  • sailing

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Tous les hommes sont mortels (Simone de Beauvoir), War of the end of the world (Vargas Llosa), The Abbis (Marguerite Yourcenar), One hundred years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Midnights Children (Salman Rushdie), Ficciones (Borges).
Music: I started with: Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, The Stones, Bob Marley. Then a period with: Joy Division, Shriekback, Siouxie, The Clash and now: Thievery Corporation, Weekend Players, Luomo, Felix da Housecat, Moby, Massive Attack, Smoke City, Koop and Naomi.
Movies and (directors): Being John Malkovich,, The Navigator, The constant Gardner, American Beauty, Blade Runner, Brazil, Cidade de Deus, The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley), Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway), Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg), Mulholland drive (David Lynch), Solaris ( Andrei Tarkovsky, but also the Steven Soderbergh version), The last seduction, Kalifornia, Thelma and Louse, Memento.
TV Series: Six Feet Under, Lost, Carnivale, Sopranos, Mad Men, Braking Bad.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

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Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, British, Western Sahara

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

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