Hello, pleasure to meet you.
My name is Cláudio, I´m from a small village of Portugal, and I´ve been on this beautiful planet for 29 years.
The past 6 years I was lucky to be living my wildest dreams, and to visit places, meet people I´ve never imagined, and with travelling, with the people I met along the way, I changed, I grew, both emotionally, personally and spiritually, to the person I am now, still full of dreams, and with a more rich view of the world, of people.
Travelling has brought me incredible friends, unforgetable memories, and the life I´ve dreamed.
Because of travelling I decided to go back to study, and become a social worker, I decided to become vegan and much more aware of the world we live in and the animals around us, become a spiritual person and much more happy and a peaceful human being, and I also started to advocate for peace, social justice, climate change...
I must say I´m a bit of a quiet person, calm, relax, but I truly love to listen other people, to learn, and also to share, to have deep conversations about life...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Fundamentally more than having a place to stay and a place to receive guests, is to connect and meet people from all over the world, to learn, to share, to grow. That's simply pure education and shapes you as a person!
I look forward also to get to know a different place through your eye´s, your culture, traditions, the social environment, the people, their stories and way of living. I love to learn new things about life, about the world, about communities, about people.
The world is better through connection with others, through understanding that in the end we're all the same, and couchsurfing is a great way to learn and live that :)

Interests

Basically all about sports, education, youth education, social work, cinema, volunteer work, new cultures, spirituality, meditation, veganism, climate change

• traveling
• volunteer work
• minimalism
• hiking
• camping
• sports
• social work
• spirituality
• veganism
• climate change

Music, Movies, and Books

Shindler's List, Forrest Gump, La vida e bella - Movies
The four agreements, The alchemist, the power of now, the untethered soul, a new earth - books
Imagine by John Lennon - Music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most incredible step is always the first, to face your fears and go!
I've been fortune enough to live my dream's for the past 6 year's!

Teach, Learn, Share

The fundamental idea of couchsurfing for me is this, to share, to teach, to learn, from the people we meet and connect. More than a warm meal and a bed, the essence is to meet different people and by sharing, learning, become a better person, and than share again, impact the world around you.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my stories, my experiences. I can share with you what once was shared with me, life experiences, knowledge, opportunities, my culture, my traditions, my perceptions of the world, and laughs, good times, good conversations. And I will happily cook for you some vegan dishes and help you out at home if needed :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macao, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Portugal