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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Dutch, Spanish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • NGOer, vegeteble gardener, active in social movements
  • Development cooperation @ Ulg
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

discover the simple world, people and different cultures

ABOUT ME

Really don't know

PHILOSOPHY

Competition life is meaningless. Our culture teaches that faster is better, people has to slow down to appreciate every moments, take the time to read, cook Slow Food, have simple pleasures, natural meeting. Consume with care. Humanity grows by miscegenation, ideas sharing. Protect species and public beaches :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

try to be a good guest and host, respect differences or adopt it

COUCHSURFING GUEST EXPERIENCE

Next coming soon
2009
Jul. 21-23 -> Peter Ivanic & Stanka in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA with my bro, Julien
Jul. 23-25 -> Eugenia Reznikowa in Vienna, AUSTRIA with my bro, Julien
Jul. 25-28 -> Sophie Burchard in Vienna, AUSTRIA with my bro, Julien
Sept. 07&13 -> Adam Kądziela in Krakow, POLAND
2010
Sept. 13-15 -> Kasia Szeniawska in Warsaw, POLAND
2011
Nov. 4-5 -> Marsupedor in Oslo, NORWAY
Nov. 8-9 -> Luca Costantini in Bergen, NORWAY
2012
Oct. 21,22,23 -> Guðmundur Harðarson in Reykjavik, Iceland

Interests

Traveling, meeting cultures and different kind of people, lifestyles. fight culturocentrism. enjoy wild life. Read, learn and have fun. Imagine utopias, make love. Skiing, playing fieldhockey. Take a drink, have a walk. Play Chess, guitar.
Go to theater, listen or play music. Taking pictures
Cooking, tasting wine
Spend time with friends

  • culture
  • theater
  • photography
  • beauty
  • dining
  • cooking
  • wine
  • cheese
  • beer
  • drinking
  • chess
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • hiking
  • skiing
  • field hockey
  • beaches
  • mountains
  • fieldhockey

Music, Movies, and Books

Too many to mention but my favorites are :
Music : I'm an eclectic music listener but I prefer rock, progressive and classic rock, folk, electronic music and classic music. Radiohead, Cocorosie, Joanna Newsom, Weezer, Guns, dEUS, Regina Spektor, Kusturica, Devendra Banhart, Sophia, Air, The Smashing Pumpkins, Damien Rice, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Sigur Ros, The Postal Service, Au revoir Simone, An Pierle, Ghinzu, Arctic Monkeys, Mendelssohn , Rachmaninov, Chopin, Albinoni, Barber, Sparklehorse, and many, many more...
Movies : Dogme95, Jarmush, Soderbergh, van Sant, Tarantino, Medem, Cronenberg, Cohen, Mendes, Gondry, Kusturica, Bertolucci, Coasta-Gavras, Welles, Selick, Almodovar, Inarritu, Tykwer, Miyazaki, Aronofsky, Coppola, Winterbottom, The Monty Pythons, a lot of Belgian Realisators, and many, many more...
Books : Bukowski, Kundera, Suskind, Kafka, Ionesco, Beckett, Brecht, Asimov, Dostoievski, Tolkien, Werber, Baricco, Benjamin Barber, Ramonet, Reza, More, Eco, Vian, Khan, Nazer, Barjavel, Fitzgerald, Todd, Attali ... Mafalda, Calvin & Hobbes, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Sitting on the roof of the Guillemins Station (Calatrava's station in Liege)... see through the plexiglass windows the 40m empty space under our feet... very impressive.
- Hiking in the night of Tatra's mountains.
- A usefull container experience in Vienna.
- Getting up, out of the tent and discover Hardangerfjord in a sunny morning.
- Amazing northern lights experience in Flúdir, Iceland.
- Sleeping in a very simple and cold room in a himalayan boudhist monastery in Sakti, India.
Next coming soon thanks to couchsurf.org.
My first couchsurf experience already bring me highlights of human contacts (hard to leave).

Teach, Learn, Share

I love cooking, tasting wines, beers, cheese, exotic food, practicing fieldhockey and immortalising on paper instant beauty, playing chess, guitar, talking all night long. I want to learn what you can teach me

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, France, Greece, Iceland, India, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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