CURRENT MISSION

Travelling around the world and finding my 2nd paradise

ABOUT ME

Travel is my passion. Not only that I studied and work in tourism, I also love it to explore other countries and cultures. Usually when I am employed I use every holiday I could get for going abroad and visit many interesting places like Suriname, Nicaragua or nearly all of the Eastern Caribbean Islands. In 2014 I quit my job to travel around the world for a year and had amazing experiences and made great friends - also due to couchsurfing. I could even imagine doing another RTW trip in a few years. ;-)
However during my trip I also realized that the tropics is the place where I want to live. This is why the Caribbean became my second home. Before my one years travel I already lived in Grenada for 3 years. In 2015 I found a new job, adventure and home in the Dominican Republic.

More about me and my current and past travels on my travel blog: http://www.my-travelworld.de
and my Travel-Facebook-Page: https://www.facebook.com/mytravelworld.DE

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As a traveller I am sure I can participate as being a good and easy-going guest, by providing my travel experiences about places I have already visited and by having just a good time with my hosts. If I am requesting to be hosted I definately have time to share with my host - but it's also ok if I am on my own if my host has to work, study etc.

As a host I can offer an apartment to live, show interesting places in Santo Domingo (if I have time, pretty busy usually) and share my experiences, knowledge and ways of thinking. As I said I am really easy-going and get along quite well with many people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only great ones so far ... definetely a unique way to enrich and share the travel experience.

1) Solange, Bangkok - unique first time experience
2) Nadia & Marko, Taipeh - great way to spend Christmas Eve
3) Jay, Manila - amazing host for intense Manila
4) Junior, Cebu - Sinulog 2015, crazy stuff
5) Bill, Las Vegas - epic bumper pool battle
6) Jess & Leif, Bozeman - farm life with elk steak, the saw and cards against humanity
7) Miguel, Dallas - Mexican time in Texas
8) Mayo, Lima - Multi-lingual meeting of tourism professionals
9) Fernando, San Rafael - Argentinian Asado & German cooking fusion
10) Mauricio, Santiago de Chile - the Brazilian Trash-Talk King
11) Scott, St. Croix - Rum & Rain in the West Indies
12) Glen, Jost van Dyke - Yachtsurfing in the British Virgin Islands
13) Djimpson, Cap-Haitien - A true Haitian experience
14) Cleve, Trinidad - First Co-Dominican CS experience
15) Hugo, Marie-Galante - Rum Lovers on the quitest Caribbean island
16) Florence & Benoit, Guadeloupe - Sharing the "tough" expat life in the Caribbean

Interests

travelling, (playing) volleyball and beach volleyball, (watching) football, trekking, hiking, skiing, travel blogging, hashing (nope, it has nothing to do with drugs), eating, cooking and food, playing board games, playing Ticket to Ride, random exploring, having a beer while sunset ;-)

• culture
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• cocktails
• board games
• traveling
• billiards
• blogging
• hiking
• skiing
• rock climbing
• soccer
• volleyball
• tourism
• beaches
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Grenada - my home base for 3 years is still beating in my heart

Furtermore some random memorable travel experiences: campervan tour through Canada, jetting through Europe with Ryanair's 1€-fares, visiting Las Vegas, heading down Highway No. 1 in California, skiing in the Rocky Mountains, watching world-cup games in Croatia and Bosnia, climbing Mount Rinjani in Indonesia, travelling Timor-Leste, being a couple of days in the backcountry of Suriname, trying (and failing) to climb Huayna Potosi (6.088 meters), crossing the border from Bolivia to Paraguay on the river without border posts,

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
- how to make one of the best Caribbean cocktails: a Grenadian rum punch (if all the ingredients are available, if not a classical Rum & Coke does his job)
- German (culture, habits, language)
- about Caribbean life

Learn:
- culture, habits, food and language of the country I am visiting respectively of those countries I might have a guest of
- about activities I have never done, new ways of thinking, everything else I don't know

Share:
- a lot of unique travel experiences and a little bit of insight into the German way of living (and thinking)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Dominican Republic, Germany, Grenada