"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life" (Steve Jobs) matches us perfectly.

We live in Montreal, we both work as consultant: Bertrand in IT, Elodie in HR.

We decided few years ago to take a one year and half break for backpacking around the world. Our goal ? Pausing a stressful life for discovering the best of what the world has to offer in terms of people and places.

This became our way of life. Since then, between each contract, we travel and discover the world.

We love meeting new people and exchanging with them. We are curious, positive and we have a good sense of humour.
We enjoy eating good local food, testing new cocktails, partying with new friends...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is the equivalent of hitchhiking for a stay. It is always a fantastic opportunity to meet great people, discovering a new culture and having a new friend anywhere in the world.

Thanks to couchsurfing, we met a lot of people in Canada, USA, Netherlands, Denmark, Turkey, Jordan, China , Malaysia and Chile.

Some were very short, some others last much more than expected ! Some people we met became friends and we visited each other several times. All in all, every CS experience was pleasant, we had good times with all the people we have met so far.

Interests

Photography, traveling, hiking, cooking, camping, snowboarding, snowshoeing, iceskating, petanque, listening music, going to concerts...

I am also interested in so many things from environment to sociology, or fundamental physics !

• photography
• concerts
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• zumba
• partying
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• bungee jumping
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• snowshoeing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• physics
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Radiohead, Portishead, Gainsbourg, Doors, Bon Harper, Muse, Aretha Franklin, Sublime, James Brown, Massive Attack, Morcheeba....

Tarantino's, Coen Brothers', David Lynch's, Tim Burton's, Fight Club, Memento, Seven, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the good the bad and the ugly...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Why one ?

- A night in a home made igloo at 2000m
- Treks in the Grand Canyon, Canyonland, Zion in the US...
- Climb Gunung Rinjiani in Indonesia (3700m),
- Hike 200km in Nepal climbing the Thorong La pass (5400m) in Nepal
- Swim with turtles,
- Seen and touched seals in Quebec,
- Skydiving in Quebec and bungee jumping in France
- Ride 3500 km with a motorbike in Vietnam,
- Climb the Huayna Potosi (6088m) in Bolivia.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Martinique, Mauritius, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Réunion, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Denmark, France