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Overview

  • 12 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Arabic, Italian, Turkish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Geographers and city planners,
  • Licence in Geography and Master in City Planning in Paris
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Discovering Iran, its wonderful people, its magnificent cities and landscape.

I (Benoît) will travel by myself this time.
Learning arabic for several years, I'm particularly interested in middle east culture and languages. So, I will try to do the best in Farsi !

ABOUT ME

Camille (describe by Benoit):
Crazy of biking, Camille is everyday on her bike in paris whatever the weather.She just finished her studies in City Planning after some hesitations with working in cultural event. She is fan of theater and think to start a new life when coming back from the trip. She plays violin and brought it on her bike.
She felt in love with Turkey few years ago and she is happy to enter in her lovely city Istanbul by bike in few months.
She really believe in the bike as a way of transportation in Paris and all over the world!

Benoît (describe by Camille) :
Benoît is a man really curious and open to new experiences and discoveries. Since one year he is working for the inhabitants of a departement in parisian region for the amelioration of their houses. He is a geographer, he loves adventures in the nature. Passionated by the middle east he travelled a lot there, learn arabic and lived siw months in Damascus. He likes speaking about history, politics. He likes the box and of course biking.
A very open minded man, funny who likes joking and always ready to meet new persons. Make this trip of one year by bike is a way to discover new cultures and visit countries that he liked.

PHILOSOPHY

Take a bike and leave the day after to visit the world to make our own way.

Prendre un vélo par la main,
et partir dès le lendemain,
à travers le monde qui vient,
pour tracer son bonhomme de chemin,
et savoir qu'on ne regrettera rien.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Habitant un joli appartement à Montreuil depuis 2 ans, nous avons toujours tout fait pour accueillir les amis des amis de nos amis, les héberger une ou plusieurs nuits et leur faire découvrir notre vie montreuilloise et parisienne.

Pendant notre voyage nous avions choisi de prendre une tente 3 places justement pour pouvoir accueillir des voyageurs de passages/ et autres couch surfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Inscrits sur Couchsurfing depuis peu, nous n'avons pas encore accueilli de CS à proprement parlé, mais nos amis (pour certains CS) connaissent notre sens de l'accueil et de l'hospitalité et saurons le témoigner sur le réseau.

Interests

Mon premier est un vélo;
mon second est un continent;
mon troisième est une conviction;
mon quatrième est la Liberté;
Mon tout est voyage d'un an à travers l'Europe du sud pour promouvoir le vélo.

  • theater
  • politics
  • violin
  • cycling
  • boxing
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

Films:
Une séparation
Tomboy
Le chat du Rabbin
Le discours d'un roi
Dans ses yeux
Incendies
Beginners
Frida
36 quai des Orfèvres
Au nom du père

Musique:
Style Balkanique (Balkan beat Box, Shantel, Bregovic, Kusturica etc.)
Rock des 60-70's (Rolling Stones, Dylan, Beatles etc.)
+ chanteurs variés :Souad Massi, Pink Martini, Caro Emerald, Zaza Fournier, Karimouche, Soha, Muse, Tracy Chapman, Mano Solo, Noir Désir

Livres:
Sur le Moyen Orient (Georges Corn, Alain Gresh, Frédéric Encel, Robert Fisk...)
Romans (Elif Safak, B.Giraudeau,Menkel, Vargas, Kessel, Ferney, Amin Maalouf, Vian, Kristof)
Pièces de théâtres (Molière, Shakespeare, Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Feydeau, Hugo)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

On vous racontera, soyez patients...

Teach, Learn, Share

Nous pouvons apporter :
- un savoir en matière de réparation-entretien de vélo
- des notions de langue Turque et Arabe (que nous avons apprenons)
- des connaissances artistiques en violon (que nous transportons avec nous) et théâtre.
- des connaissances en boxe française.

Nous sommes très ouverts et en attente de nouvelles découvertes. (même les maquettes en allumettes!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mali, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Réunion, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom

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