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  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning English, Indonesian, Spanish
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • I work in the French ministery of Environment, about acci...
  • Ecole des Mines de Douai, promotion 2012
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About Me

Interests

Je suis passionné de météorologie : par la prévision (surtout quand quelque chose d'intéressant se prépare comme une vague de froid, des chutes de neige, des orages, une tempête, une canicule...) qu'elle soit à long terme (regarder les cartes des modèles numériques et notamment voir de belles cartes (menant à une situation intéressante)) ou à court terme (regarder M. Radar pour les précipitations!), la climatologie (afin de voir ce qui pourrait un jour arriver qu'on n'imagine pas forcément...) et bien évidemment voir les phénomènes météorologiques en temps réel (rien de plus plaisant que de voir des paysages habituels transformés par la neige, des étendues d'eau gelées (lacs, fleuves, rivières...) et surtout des chutes d'eau gelées (chutes de Montmorency à Québec en particulier!) et j'adorerai voir une bise glaciale au bord du lac Léman! J'adore aussi voir la beauté des éclairs zébrant le ciel lors d'un orage et entendre le tonnerre gronder).
J'adore également voyager afin d'être dépaysé et de voir de beaux paysages.
Par ailleurs, j'aime beaucoup la bonne bouffe (foie gras, coquille Saint Jacques, cèpes, frites maison et le sorbet maison que je me fais moi-même).
Je m'intéresse aussi à la politique de façon substantielle et j'aime bien réfléchir à des idées dont on n'entend jamais parler.

I am passionate about meteorology : forecasts (especially when something interesting is prepared as a cold spell , snowfalls , thunderstorms , windstorm, heat wave ... ) it is long-term ( look at maps of numerical models including seeing beautiful cards ( leading to an interesting situation ) ) or short-term ( watch Mr. radar for precipitations ! ) , climatology (to see what might happen that we can't imagine ... ) and of course see the weather in real time ( nothing more fun than seeing the usual landscape transformed by snow, frozen water ( lakes , rivers ... ) and especially of frozen waterfalls ( Montmorency Falls in Quebec in particular! ) and I will love to see an icy wind on Lake Geneva! I also love to see the beauty of lightning streaking across the sky during a thunderstorm and hear the thunder rumbling ) .
I also love to travel and be out of place to see beautiful landscapes.
I also love good food (foie gras, scallops Jacques , mushrooms , home-made fries and my home-made sorbet ) .
I am also interested in politics significantly , and I like to think of ideas that we never hear about .

  • dining
  • politics
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • swimming
  • cartography
  • lakes
  • rivers
  • food
  • meteorology

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A lot of things.
For instance Ice Hotel in Quebec. I was impressed by the quality of the work in hard conditions: with cold or mitts, it is more difficult to work with the hands.
Mopeds in the medina of Marrakech are surprising but disagreeable.
I trekked above the Perito Moreno Glaciar in South Argentina and at the end we drank whiskey with the ice of the glaciar. I was also in Torres del Paine which is very beautiful and I have seen an advertisement about a danger of rolling stones !
I went also to the summit of volcano Villarica : it was very difficult but it is very nice up the summit.
I slept in the Snow Hotel in Kemi in Lapland (Finland) and the day after I had a cruise in the Sampo Ice Breaker.
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What I Can Share with Hosts

Souvenirs of my trips, my interests like meteorolgy, food...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mayotte, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, New Caledonia, Poland, Russian Federation, Seychelles, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, France, Réunion

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