I'm a 27-year old physicist, musician and avid fan of cycle touring. I love music and philosophy, as well as hiking.

Currently I'm on a year long cycle trip from France to Tibet, to meet the inhabitants of the world (human, fauna, flora, nature) and experience slow travel and a lifestyle without fixed abode. Follow the adventure on Instagram if you're interested: @cycle.nomad

I really enjoy being in nature, as well as meeting locals and exchanging experiences and ideas. Meeting people during travelling really shapes an experience and can lead to unexpected turns and life-changing encounters.

Before cycling, I was working as a researcher in physics. I am also a pianist with a deep love for music spanning many genres.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm currently travelling from France to Norway by bike with a friend and would be happy to meet people along the way to share experiences and meet locals.

Spontaneous meetings can be very memorable moments to share and exchanges ideas, experiences and even completely change the course of one another's lives. I think this would be a great way to catalyse this.

Interests

I'm very curious about nature, music, philosophy and physics. I think these hold the key to something more fundamental about our existence.

I missed nature a lot during COVID and now practice regularly my relationship with it and the outdoors by hiking, cycling, and wild camping.

Music had been a leitmotiv throughout my life and brings me great joy to play and to share it.

• environment
• reading
• music
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• ecology
• mathematics
• philosophy
• physics
• outdoors
• mushrooms
• degrowth
• climatology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
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Classical music:
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Mahler - Symphony no. 2
Rachmaninow, Debussy, Liszt
Bach (Partiten, Goldberg Var.)

Indie rock, jazz:
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Yussef Dayes, Alfa Mist, Joe-Armon Jones
Mansur Brown, Oscar Jerome
Tame Impala
Pink Floyd
Deria Yildirim & Grup Simsek
Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Chet Baker
Oscar Peterson
Dina Ögon

Books:
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Perfume, Patrick Süsskind
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Into The Wild, John Krakauer
Dune Trilogy, Frank Herbert

L'écriture ou la vie, Semprun
Élan Vital, Sophie Chassat

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked the Tour du Mont Blanc
Hiked in the Cairngorms (Scotland), Snowdonia (Wales), the Bernese Alps, Val d'Aosta, French Alps.
Solo hiking in the Maritime Alps and the Pyrenees.

Cycle trips along the Loire and Rhône in France, through north-western Europe to Sweden.

Worked in a physics lab in Tokyo, Japan.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music
Physics
Mathematics
Meditation

What I Can Share with Hosts

- Helping with cooking, cleaning, gardening, cycle repair
- Sharing experiences about life, perspectives
- Listening
- Sharing and playing music together. I play piano.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom