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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Por qué estoy en 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.

Intereses

Art, people, cultures.

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

Música, películas y libros

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...

Algo increíble que he hecho

Solo trekking in the Himalayas

Enseña, aprende, comparte

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

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

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.

Países que he visitado

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

Países en los que he vivido

Russian Federation, Spain, United States