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Overview

  • 22 references 20 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Working to live,...
  • engineer
  • From Brecht, close to Antwerp
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life! As long and as much as possible ;)

ABOUT ME

I'm kind of a quiet guy, but I like meeting new people over a pint of beer. I enjoy a night partying at the club just as much as a relax evening just watching a movie or a series.
I like sporting, mainly football, tennis and running, but once a year I definitely need my skiing holiday as well.
I also really love nature and mainly the mountains. I'll go walking there even if no one is around to accompany me.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't worry, be happy!

Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today!

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I rent a reasonably large apartment close to the center of Brussels. I live here along with my flatmate (Ruben) and we are willing to share our living room with people from all around the world
I must say I'm not much of a tourguide though :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't gone couchsurfing myself, but over the last few months we had a lot of couchsurfers visiting our appartment, because my roommate was a host. I really liked the idea of it all, so now I decided to create my own profile to get even more people over here. It's just a great way to break the habit of a normal (read: boring) week and meet many new ppl from around the globe :)

Interests

As a civil engineer I'm not that interested in modern art, but I can really enjoy the architecture of buildings, churches, bridges... But the architecture of mother nature is still the most amazing, that's why I love the mountains. Both in summer and winter: skiing and hiking.

  • arts
  • architecture
  • modern art
  • beer
  • running
  • walking
  • partying
  • clubbing
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • skiing
  • soccer
  • tennis
  • engineering
  • parks
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I love movies. Mainly thrillers and action movies, but other movies with a good plot are great as well. Favourites: Gladiator, Inception, Fallen, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Boondock Saints, Snatch, Chronicles of Riddick, The Dark Knight,... and many others

I mainly like electronical music: dance, trance, techno, drum 'n bass, dubstep,... Anything I can dance to

I'm not a big reader, but the books I read are mainly fantasy and thrillers.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Some national parks in the US: Arches, Canyonlands, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Yosemite,... Seeing the sunrise over Bryce Canyon is really the most amazing thing I've ever seen
- Biking through Norway: the fjords and mountains are really stunning
- Maya and Inca temples in Mexico: Chichen Itza, Palenque, Teotihuacan,...
- Tomorrowland: 3 days in higher atmospheres with the best DJ's and crowd in the world. At least there's one advantage of being Belgian :)

Teach, Learn, Share

If you're not Belgian, I can probably teach you something about Belgian beers :P

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