CURRENT MISSION

* looking for ideas and inspirations to write them down and take photos (+ add some moments to my photo blog www.cakeandcamera.wordpress.com)
* finding the most notable bookshops around the world for Paper Sail

ABOUT ME

I am an analogue photographer with my Canon A-1, a bookshop traveller, a wanderer and dreamer, a translator of travel stories, a happy reader and a writer everywhere. And always a traveller: after a summer in Barcelona this year, I have now arrived in Australia again.

PHILOSOPHY

Finding homeplaces while moving on.
Getting to know a country better through literature.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

listening to irish music in dublin | sleeping on a rooftop under the stars&airplanes and above delhi | relaxing one, two and more weekends on sarahs couch | exploring Ireland's southcoast on small windy roads

Interests

travel | literature | writing | photography | playing a bit of the accordion | collecting a lot | moving | longing | finding music

• writing
• literature
• photography
• coffee
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• music
• snorkeling
• sailing
• cartography
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS
the journals of anais nin
monkey grip (helen garner)
a fine balance (rohinton mistry)
on the road (jack kerouac)
the merry-go-around (randolph stow)
a field guide to getting lost (rebecca solnit)

MUSIC niels frahm, stu larsen, bill callahan, a singer of songs, luluc, sexteto mayor

MOVIES babel, into the wild, melancholia

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

being alone in a cave with glowworms | booking my australian flight ticket | travelling 3000 km in 3 days in a car | first time and all the other times seeing the southern cross | snorkeling above little sharks | sinking a houseboat | watching&listening to a guitare solo of john butler | meeting people again&again by accident | exploring dublin in two days | listening to the ocean | sitting around a bonfire in nowhere in western australia | being coloured in india at holi | seeing the dalai lama at his home | finding home places

Teach, Learn, Share

Motivate people to start travelling.
A bit about literature and Australia.

What I Can Share with Hosts

travel stories. photos. reading maps. how to get lost. coffee times.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, France, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Spain

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