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Compiègne, Hauts-de-France, France
@BLUES-RATAPOIL
Member since 2011
CURRENT MISSION Visiting Tibet, visiting every province of China, coming back to Japan, visiting Mongolia, visiting every country of Europe, visiting other countries of Asia, visiting the rest of the world. ABOUT ME People of any place in the world : we're waiting forward to meet you, as a host or surfer and we're waiting forward to discover you. I'm truly afraid that life and money will never be enough to travel every location I wish to but I'll do my best. I do love to meet other cutures and ways of life, away from the sightseeing industry.This profile is also a bit about my wife.My travels abroad are shared on this blog (click the banner): Beside this, I'm also teaching aikido : in this club. PHILOSOPHY Don't worry, be happy.
Interested in Bars
Fluent in English
Learning Japanese
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING We surf and we host, if we're not busy. May pick up or drive around our guests. People visiting our profile are staying in : COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE We both host and surf and we're sometimes delighted by people we meet. This kind of special connection seems to be happening sometimes after 2 minutes spent chatting with hosts or guests. Locations where we were hosted :Iceland, France, Andorra, Italy, San MarinoOrigin of people I hosted in my life :China (5), Holland (5), Germany (5), Japan (4), USA (4), Italy (3), Sweden (2), Belgium (2), Australia (1), Philipines (1)Most of the requests we receive are from people crossing Europe on bike and doing their first or last stop from or to Paris.
Music, Movies, and Books
Books : Dan Simmons, Starwars, japanese, chinese novels Music : metal : Nightwish, X Japan, Therion, Rammstein. relax : Jarre, Vangelis, Kitaro, Klaus Schulze, Steve Roach, Himekami french :Jacques Higelin, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Tri Yann, Classical : Beethoven, Vivaldi, Samuel Barber Celtic music Movie : any good one.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
My traditionnal wedding in China. A new year's night spent in Japan with a buddhist familly turning me to a superstar in the local temple. Another new year's night spent in Japan with a shinto familly where I had to ring the bell in the local shrine to help a woman who was nearly 100 year old and needed my help to do it for her prayers to her dead husband. Still wearing sunglasses at midnight in Iceland because if the sunlight. Spring festival in China : the firecrackers made Beijing sounding like the war on TV news. A very nice peasant in a train in China who was so happy to meet foreigners that he wanted a picture of us to be shot. Not to keep the picture. Just to have the memory of having been shot on a picture with a foreigner. Travelling to Tibet, drinking liters of barley beer with local people.
My Interests
Aikido, music listening, getting to know different cultures and travelling abroad as much as vacations and money allow it.
