CURRENT MISSION

Surviving the return to London.

ABOUT ME

I love exploring the world, travelling, getting to know, cultures, ideas, thoughts.
I love meeting new people and I believe everyone is inspiring and has an amazing story to share.

I used to travel a lot by hitchhiking, staying with couchsurfers or with people I meet on the street - there is no better way to really get to know about the place than through its people; I have little interest in hostel tourism and visiting with a guidebook in hand, while staying isolated from the local reality.

Recently I had calmed down though, after some bad experiences hitchhiking, a backbone injury that doesnt let me carry a big backpack and after my parents turned 60 and they started looking a bit old and fragile and I don't feel like taking so many risks anymore, because it started to feel selfish.

I'm a big fan of urban sports: climbing roofs, trees, phoneboots, racing in shopping carts, tubesurfing.

I have always lived in the city and I can't imagine any other life but I love open spaces, mountains, forests. I feel most alive when I am in nature.

PHILOSOPHY

Personal action towards environmental and social justice and sustainability. I try to minimize negative impact my life has on other people and the environment, through my decisions, purchases and non-purchases. And hopefully one day through an amazing social enterprise.

Interests

people, cultures, photography, music, low budget travelling (backpacking, hitchhiking, camping), design, visual arts, books, European movies, sleeping, positive and creative activism (organized this creative activism project in 2011: http://streamforchange.tumblr.com)

everything enviro-, eco-, etc-, sustainable living, eating, working and playing, (I co-authored a book on sustainable work&life: http://www.greentoolbox.org/ (free ebook download)) climate change adaptation and mitigation (which made long distance travelling kind of more guilty).

• arts
• books
• singing
• design
• photography
• environment
• coffee
• vegan
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• music
• backpacking
• camping
• sports
• rock climbing
• tourism
• visual arts
• hitchhiking
• budget travel
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers: Jonathan Safran Foer, Zadie Smith, Nicole Krauss, Hanna Krall, Bruno Schulz, Kazuo Ishiguro, Milan Kundera

Music: http://www.last.fm/user/borntosleep

Movies: Breakfast on pluto, Science of Sleep, Return, Banishment, Napoleon Dynamite, Snatch, Trainspotting, Czech movies from the 90s, Scandinavian movies: Reprise, Elling, Songs from the Second Floor, Buddies, Kitchen Stories, Noi Albinoi, 101 Reykjavik...

I love getting to know the world through documentaries and I spend two weeks each spring at this amazing Human Rights Documentaries festival in Prague: www.jedensvet.cz. It usually provides me with new causes to activate my energy for, for a whole year.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Singing Polish lullabies to an Icelandic child while wearing blue construction worker's overalls, complete with a hood.

Hithchiking from Czech Rep to Georgia and back (9000 km!)

Sleeping under the stars, in a barn, in a yurt, in a 12th century unesco protected tower, in a bed of a pick up truck etc etc...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to make amazing vegan banana bread in 5 minutes, and how to make a pinhole camera from a coffee can, or a shoebox, and develop pictures in your bathroom

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Poland, United Kingdom

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