CURRENT MISSION

to visit every country in the EU

ABOUT ME

We are two Americans living in Belgium. We've been married since August 15, 2009!
Carolyn: I like cooking, art, travel, movies, and dark chocolate.
Brendan: I enjoy traveling and sharing stories. I am a graduate student, studying E.U. policy.

PHILOSOPHY

Explore, do good.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We're active in the CS community, going to meetings and outings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have couch surfed in Canada, the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Wales, Belgium and have hosted in the U.S and the Netherlands.

Interests

Local Specialties, World Heritage Sites, Printmaking, Furniture Making, Irish Flute, Photography, Belgian Beer, Movies, Hitchhiking

• arts
• photography
• cooking
• chocolate
• beer
• movies
• traveling
• crochet
• statistics
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: currently working our way through the old James Bond films

Music: Belle and Sebastian, Shins, Pink Martini, Bob Dylan, Magnetic Fields, P:ano, No Kids, Ben Folds, Jans Lekman, Vampire Weekend

Books: Recently read Tender is the Night, Ramuncho, Radetzky March, Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, Dylan Thomas' collected stories, The Vanishing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked 3 mountains in one night - all above tree-line in the full moon.

Teach, Learn, Share

Carolyn: I can teach you how to make a delightful crepe. I can crochet and play the Irish flute (not very well yet). I can teach you all the types of trees in Maine.
Brendan: I can teach you statistics and how to eat all the edible parts of a lobster.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Netherlands, United States

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