Very happy to be back in this beautiful community after a while :)

I guess you'll see a bit of who I am in my pictures , which are mostly of my most recent trip. I spent 6 months in India and Nepal, just came back in August 2024. Still integrating everything I learned to my life back home. You'll also see a bit of how I live in Barcelona, in an old warehouse with my friends and my brother, where we have our studios, organize art exhibitions, and also where I work on my photography in the darkroom. If you want so see some of my work, you can check my IG profile, @bertavalles.ph (I'm really bad at posting, but you'll see fragments of my life in the highlights).

Apart from that, I'm really interested in Humanities (what I actually studied in the university), anthropology, cinema, and arts. And I guess I could mention a long etc list, but that would be boring, let's see when we meet :)

For me, the best part of travelling is meeting the people and its culture, and of course, nature.

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This is what I wrote in my profile back in 2019:

It's quite difficult to describe yourself here, so I'll just say/quote that describes something I think it's important for me :) We're here during very short time compared to the deep meaning of human condition. Thoreau expressed it much better than me.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..."

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我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I really love the idea of Couchsurfing, I think it's the way backpackers used to travel back in the days, before internet and all the facilities we have now.

兴趣

Art, people, cultures.

• animals
• literature
• poetry
• traveling
• painting
• music
• art history
• languages
• nature
• cultures
• people
• feminism
• handmade
• independent cinema
• playing piano
• duduk

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: Morphine, Bon Iver, Slowdive, Soko, Radiohead, Hania Rani, Brian Eno, Alice Phoebe Lou, Athaualpa Yupanki, Gustavo Santaolalla, Kings of Convenience, Bach, Chopin, Phillip Glass, Chavela Vargas, Rachmaninov, Lola y Manuel, John Frusciante, Funkadelik, Lhasa de Sela...

Literature: Dostoievsky, Tolstoi, Flauvert, Baudelaire, Borges...

Cinema: Bergman, Lars Von Trier, Tarkovsky, Kieslowsky, Almodovar, Medem, Gaspar Noé, Bertolucci, Antonioni, Linklater, Sokurov...

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Solo trekking in the Himalayas

教，学，和分享

I guess I'll always be a student. I'm always trying to learn new things, trying to integrate as much as I can...

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I can cook some traditional food, share stories, and I canwteach some yoga as well :) I've been a practitioner for years and I spent 2 months in a yoga school in North India, trying to learn to be a teacher.

我游览过的国家

Andorra, Bulgaria, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovenia, United States

我居住过的国家

Russian Federation, Spain, United States