CURRENT MISSION

Figuring out how to clean my bag from Afghan and Tajik dust.

ABOUT ME

I am an uneasy easy-going Scandinavian, enjoy the nature thats surrounds me, and am curious to explore the multitude of cultures and approaches to life on this planet.Politically, I don't like what I see, and would like to see much changed. Emphasis: Trying to figure out how we can improve relations between people, peoples and between human and nature. I'd love to hear your take on how this can be achieved...I have travelled extensively with an emphasis on the post-Soviet world and a profound fascination of geographical Europe (of which I have visited most countries). My preferred means of exploration is my bicycle, but horse, donkey, hitch hiking or armchair will do.I currently work as a sustainability consultant at the University of Copenhagen and live in a commune with six good people in their late twenties in Copenhagen. Much to my liking.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted a few times, and have been a guest on a few occasions.

Interests

Nature, concrete structures and intoxicated conversations. Travelling, long-distance bicycle touring, dull places and smashing views. Football (soccer), infrastructure, maps, litterature. Politics (International Relations, Post-Soviet Studies, North Korea, unrecognized de facto states, politics of climate change, psychology and sociology of climate change. Snow.

• politics
• traveling
• hiking
• soccer
• cartography
• international relations
• psychology
• sociology
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite books:
Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath; Sartre: Nausea; Humpfreys: Moods of Future Joys; Demick: Nothing to Envy - Ordinary Lives in North Korea; Capek: War With the Newts; Dostoyevsky: the Idiot; Süskind: Perfume; Swift: Gulliver's Travels; Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Granado: Con el Che por Sudamérica; Jackson: Prosperity Without Growth; Leggewie/Weltzer: Das Ende der Welt wie wir sie kannten; Lykkeberg: Kampen om sandhederne; Zweig: Schachnovelle; Marx: Manifest Der Kommunistischen Partei; Boulle: Planet of the Apes; Anderson: Che Guevara - A Revolutionary Life; Makarenko: The Road to Life; Steinbeck: In Dubious Battle; and many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rambled on about hitchhiking as the gateway to intercultural understanding as a special guest live on Albanian radio.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Denmark, Russian Federation

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