CURRENT MISSION

Getting smarter

ABOUT ME

I'm a journalist and love to travel and meeting people.

PHILOSOPHY

Love others as much as you love yourself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to meet people, so you are welcome in Berlin. I also like to test couches in other countries.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had already several people surfing my couches and matrasses. They came from Israel, Germany, Poland and Latvia.

I surfed in Baku, Bishkek, Ekaterinburg, Tallinn and Vilnius.
I had coffee/beers/icecreams quite spontaneously in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Denpasar, Cairo, Belgrade, Sarajevo and in my own city Wageningen

Interests

People, writing, cultures, history, photography, music, books.. etc.

• writing
• books
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• beer
• coffee
• walking
• partying
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• cycling
• camping
• surfing
• swimming
• history
• journalism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music from Rachmanimov to Radiohead and from Muse to Mozart. It's always fun to visit concerts and festivals. I like art movies and sometimes just movies for fun. I'm reading lots of books, about traveling, history and nice stories. I love the Russian masters of literature, like Dostojevski. Quality must be the key word, because I don't like to be a trash can.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Swimming among OPEC-officials in an expensive hotel in Esfahan, Iran.
- Almost selling my car to a Volvo-fan in Hungary
- Making a palace guard smile in Prague
- Two days dancing the polonaise in Poland at a wedding party
- Cycling a Tour the France stage in South Alps
- Camping by and swimming in what is left from the Aral Sea, Uzbekistan
- Travelling through the Wakhan Valley, Tajikistan, in a Lada Niva and watching Afghanistan.
- Crossing the Caspian Sea by cargo ship from Baku, Azerbaijan to Aqtau, Kazakhstan.
- Joining nomads in Tajikistan, sleeping in their yurt in the Pamir mountains (3800 m)
- Walking around in the worlds biggest walnut forrest Arslanbob in Kyrgystan. (Paradise!!)
- Being overloaded with food and love by Russian grannies at the Trans-Siberia Express in Russia.
- Staying the night at the Occupy camp at Tahrir square in Cairo.
- Celebrating a wedding at Flores island, Indonesia.
- Joining an alternative festival in a squated building in Belgrade.
- Sarajevo, just Sarajevo!

Teach, Learn, Share

Never stop to learn.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands

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