CURRENT MISSION

Broadening the mind by seeing the world!

ABOUT ME

I'm a 31 year old bike mechanic from Antwerp Belgium, currently living in Trondheim, Norway. I love to travel around, write stories about my explorations and take pictures. I'm an avid cyclist, hiker and aspiring mountaineer so sleeping on a couch is nothing but comfort & luxury to me :-)

PHILOSOPHY

Jamais dans la tendance mais toujours dans la bonne direction!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing and spreading the good word.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have co-hosted several couchsurfers from all over the planet.

Couchsurfed in Frankfurt, Stockholm, Oslo & Amsterdam.

Interests

Writing, photography music (all kinds of stuff), all things nature, mountains, hiking, mountaineering (need to climb more!), cycling, playing chess and watching birds.

• writing
• photography
• breakfast
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• mountaineering
• surfing
• journalism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I read a lot of climbing books, non fiction stuff about all kinds of things, Dutch and English literature, the occasional French book, comic books (mostly Belgian & French style, Gaston Lagaffe is my personal hero.)

Music: lots of rap; Dutch, French, American (mostly 90's stuff and indie, think Aesop Rock, El-P, etc), Belgian (yep it exists), Swedish, ... Other than that: Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, all kinds of rock and other music, Black Metal from when I was still sporting long hair and ugly band shirts (Satyricon, Mayhem, Emperor, Immortal), and a lot more! Gotta move on to >>>

Movies: all kinds of classics, modern stuff, hard to pinpoint anything really. Two movies that have left a very deep impression are "La meglio gioventu" and "Dancer in the dark".

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking through the French Alps on numerous occasions.

Mountaineering near Chamonix, France. Sleeping for two hours in a smelly and noisy hut, getting up at 4 am, not having a decent breakfast, crashing through the moraine cause you've lost your headtorch, being turned into an icelolly at the col, scrambling up to the summit through mist and fog...thinking "why the **** am I doing this?" only to see the clouds opening up, the sun shining, the Mont Blanc in the distance, a pristine glacier on your left, behind that, Swiss valleys covered in clouds...