CURRENT MISSION

tryin' to make you a really good coffee & this world a better place.

ABOUT ME

hi!
I'm Daniel, 23 years old, currently living Lisbon.

friends and fellas usually consider myself as an outgoing, honest and reliable person - and I would add - that tries to achieve its best in daily life, which I hope you'll find to be true.

my most favorite leisure activities are attending music festivals, great concerts and partys in general, being on my fixed-gear bike as well as having a good wine with an even better book and especially spending memorable times with friends and great people.

of course I love to travel. either with my family or nowadays more often together with friends or on my own.

meeting and getting to know other people all over the world and spending a great time together with them is something I live and strive for.

being a (more or less) free individual in today's world and political active as well it is important to me to emphasize that I dislike people that support (or are in favor of) the bad. basically saying: I hate racists, homophobes, sexists, etc. -- but I love unicorns!

feel free to check my Fb-profile for more info..
www.facebook.com/eckardt.daniel

PHILOSOPHY

"Imagine your life being great and turn these dreams into reality."

or as Thoreau said:

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

as said I love meeting new people and eventually becoming friends with them. besides this I'm fond of sharing personal experiences with others. additionally I'm always out to meet up with local people while I'm travelling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

hosted:
- Rachel — August 2016 //Lisbon
- Gina & Kyle — February 2016 //Greifswald
- Rike & Arne — January 2016 //Greifswald
- Henry — December 2015 //Greifswald

surfed:
- Lisbon w/ João for some days — February 2017
- Lisbon w/ Ana, Rafaela & Stella for two weeks — February/March 2016
- Lisbon w/ Benedikt & Hanja for a week — January 2016
- NYC w/ Brandon & Diana for two weeks — March 2013

everything that I experienced - every single one that I met trough CS - was absolutely great. I would honestly regret not having shared the common idea here throughout the past years..

Interests

friends | music | fixed-gear cycling, FMGX, alleycats | concerts | music festivals | sports | traveling | cultures | politics | coffee (especially Galão & Bica) | splendid wine (particularly port wine) | good Gin (Tonic) | great (world) literature | writing letters & postcards | hitchhiking | dumpster diving | Lisboa | blogging | vernissages & gallery-crawls | organic & sustainable stuff | enjoying great & unique moments

Music, Movies, and Books

music
—> mainly indie- & psychedelic-rock, synth-pop, electro & deep-house as well as trash
artists: AIR, Allah-Las, Arctic Monkeys, Austra | Babyshambles, Balthazar, The Beach Boys, Beach Fossils, The Beatles, Beirut, Björk, The Black Lips, Bloc Party, Blondie, Bodi Bill, Bon Iver, David Bowie, Jake Bugg | Caribou, Johnny Cash, CCR, CHVRHCES, Eric Clapton, ClickClickDecker, Cloud Nothings, Leonhard Cohen, Coldplay, Phil Collins, The Crookes, Crystal Castles, The Cure | Darwin Deez, Neil Diamond, DIIV, Django Django, Bob Dylan | Einar Stray, Elton John, Elvis, Empire Of The Sun, Erasure, Erlend Øye, Everything Everything | Feine Sahne Fischfilet, FM Belfast, Future Islands | The Gaslight Anthem, Grimes, Guaia Guaia | Jimmy Hendrix, Honig, Hundreds | I Blame Coco, Icona Pop | Michael Jackson, Jefferson Airplane, The Jezabels, Journey, Joy Division, Jurassic Shark, Justice | Kettcar, The Kinks, The Knife, The Kooks | La Boum Fatale, Lake People, LCD Soundsystem, The Libertines, Christian Löffler, Lykke Li | M83, Bob Marley, Me And My Drummer, MGMT, M.I.A., Michael Mayer, The Micronaut, Minitimer Katzenposter | The Naked & Famous, Die Nerven, New Order, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Niki & The Dove, The Notwist | Oasis, Ωracles | Pet Shop Boys, PeterLicht, Placebo, The Police, The Postal Service, Purity Ring | Queen | Rangleklods, Lou Reed, Reptile Youth, Retro Stefson | Santigold, Simon & Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Slow Magic, The Smiths, Snøffeltøffs, SOHN, Son Lux, The Streets, The Strookes, Supershirt, Swim Deep | Talking To Turtles, Tame Impala, Tocotronic, Tomte, Ton Steine Scherben, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Touchy Mob, TOY, The True Two und die Dorfleute, Trümmer, Twin Shadow, Two Door Cinema Club, Ty Segall, Tycho, Bonnie Tyler | Vampire Weekend, The Velvet Underground, Verschnibbt & Zugenäht | We Are The City, We Invented Paris, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Who, The Wombats, WU LYF | Jamie XX, The XX

books
—> generally old & gold stuff
Soweit die Füße tragen (Bauer)
Post-Democracy (Crouch)
Crime and Punishment (Dostojewski)
Homo Faber (Frisch)
Die Kunst des Liebens (Fromm)
A Lesson Before Dying (Gaines)
Steppenwolf, Unterm Rad, Knulp, Peter Camenzind (Hesse)
Brave New World (Huxley)
L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being] (Kundera)
Le Petit Prince (Saint-Exupéry)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours [Around the World in Eighty Days] (Verne)

movies
—> really into Wes Anderson-movies!
2001: A Space Odyssey | About a Boy, Absolute Giganten, Anna Karenina, Argo, Atonement | A Beautiful Mind, The Big Lebowski, Birdman, Black Swan, Blood Diamond, Blow, Breakfast at Tiffany's | Can A Song Save Your Life, Catch Me If You Can, Citizenfour, City Of God, Cool Runnings, Cycle Me Home | Dallas Buyers Club, Desert Flower, Dirty Dancing, Django Unchained, Drive | Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Die Feuerzangenbowle, Fight Club, Forest Gump | Garden State, Gran Torino, Grand Budapest Hotel | Hotel Ruanda | The Imitation Game, Into The Wild | Knockin' On Heavens Door | Layer Cake, Le Voyage d'Hector Ou La Recherche Du Bonheur, Line Of Sight, The Lion King, Lost In Translation, Lord Of War, Lords Of Dogtown, Lucky Number Slevin | Napoleon Dynamite, The Neverending Story | Once | The Persuit Of Happiness, Pride And Prejudice, Psycho, Pulp Fiction | The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore | Schindler's List, The Shawshank Redemption, Superbad | Thank You For Smoking, The Theory Of Everything, Trainspotting, Tree Of Life | La Vita È Bella

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

working, teaching & living together with Syrian Refugees.

helping & guiding Refugees on their journey from Germany to Sweden.

doing a more than 2025Km from Paris to Lisbon on a fixed-gear bike

sleeping on a dune somewhere between Bordeaux & Donostia-San Sebastián

doing couchsurfing in NYC &!Lisbon

establishing a (fixed-gear) cycling team (FMGX).

doing an exchange year in US-America.

Teach, Learn, Share

- as much as you want from me an you

- personalities, ideas, thoughts & moments

- intercultural stuff

What I Can Share with Hosts

a good coffee & breakfast, my company & of course a safe & dry place to stay at.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Portugal, United States