CURRENT MISSION

Before dying, I would like to understand how the world is going on, but I prefer learning what simple people has to say than reading difficult books

ABOUT ME

I had 2 husbands and I have 3 children (adults now).
Now I have friends in the whole world. I have time to do what I like, for example, I make several trips per year with my Bicycle. I like traveling alone, or with only one close friend.
I'm very kind, but I don't like to be annoyed. And I'm easily annoyed....
Don't take me too much seriously, I'm kidding almost all the time. Sometimes not. I make best friends of the ones who can tell the difference (they are not many ;-)

PHILOSOPHY

- I love humanity not for what it is, but for what it would want to be

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I often travel alone, but in the evening I feel lonely in impersonal hotels. I prefer to see people and to share my experience with them. My niece told me about couchsurfing....

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's amazing!
I've made real friends and I never had bad experiences (well, 5 years later, I'd say "almost never").
Of course, I've a private life, and I'm not available all the time. But even if I can't host, I always answer
I know I'll never get bored: even when I'll turn to old to travel by myself, I'll be able to meet other travelers and share experience with them.

Interests

-experience exchange (about everything, may be recipes for pancakes or philosophic discussions)
-to discover other way of thinking, if they are no stupid (I'm kidding!)

• arts
• books
• cooking
• recipes
• chocolate
• wine
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• mountaineering
• friends
• watching movies

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
- Der Himmel über Berlin (Wim Wenders)
- Kiss of the spider woman (hector Babenco)
- Casablanca (Michael Curtis)
- "Habla con ella" and "volver" (Almodovar)
- Les convoyeurs attendent (Benoît Mariage - Belgium)
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Books:
- Le petit prince (St Exupery)
- L'usage du monde (Nicolas Bouvier)
- "Ligne de faille" and "douce agonie" (Nancy Huston)
- Rimbaud, Baudelaire
- Jean Giono, Haruki Murakami
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Music:
Classic music
French songs (Brassens, Gainsbourg...)
Latin and Cuban Music, Tango
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One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- I made 3 our 4 good paintings
- One day, I went mountaineering. It was a small Mountain (in Belgium) but I had been dreaming of that since I was a little girl.
- Seeing Aral sea
- I have wonderful children and some wonderful friends
- 2014: the longest bike trip I've ever done: from Atlantic to Black Sea, 4 000 Km, without GPS. A great Summer, and I learned a lot about myself and about Europe!
- 2016: Belgium - North Cape along the cost with my bike (cheating a bit with boats and buses)

Teach, Learn, Share

I actually don't have very special knowledge but I can share a lot of small things:
I like to share cooking recipes
I can show or explain how to make good marmalade, how to knit a pullover...
I like to discuss about gardening
I can show beautiful bicycles rides
I have several good addresses in Cuba and in some places in the world

I would like to learn salsa
...and Arabic and Chinese and Japanese, in another life ;-)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Wine
Chocolate
Our Ideas to achieve a perfect world
.... what they want if I agree with

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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