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Overview

  • 26 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Spanish
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Sommelier, Wine sales person
  • an everyday process
  • From Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Living my dreams instead of dreaming my life

ABOUT ME

Always peaceful, most of the tıme smılıng, very enthousiastic and happy, never bored, very much active, often on the road, very serious when working, mostly spırıtual, always have a dıfferent sense of humour, alıke and lıke meetıng new people around the world, travelıng and learnıng about new places, very ındependant(but dependant of everything; that's why I exist).

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a challenge, meet it!
Life is a dream, realize it!
Life is a game, play it!
Life is LOVE, enjoy it!

"I am serious when I play and I play when I seem serious to you."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The real world is not the one we see on television, in newspapers or in magazines. The world we live in is not "scary" as massmedias want us to believe. CS is one of the reason why I'm confident in our future. I'm glad to tell people I meet through my travelings: Such a website really works!!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was in Croatia 24h before the new year eve 2009 and I didn't know what to do. Finally, I hitchhiked from Croatia to Slovenia, I found a couch at the last minute for 4 nights in a student dormitory, and I attended a CS meeting for The new year eve in Ljubljana. I met many couchsurfers, had wonderfull mulled wine(it was very good indeed!), and spent this evening by going in some crazy places I couln't have found by myself. This is why I like CS so much: anywhere, anytime, anyway...!!!

Interests

Human interactions, finding happiness in the most simple things, sustainable living, alternative technologies, wine, biodynamics, alternative medicines, mountain-biking, football, listening to music, writing, reading...

  • writing
  • dining
  • wine
  • reading
  • music
  • cycling
  • soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Gramatik, Asian Dub Foundation, Gotan Project, Wax Tailor, Fakear, Bjork, I Am, Goran Bregović, Kosheen, Chinese man, Vitalic, Paul Kalkbrenner, Dunb Inc, Parov Stelar, La Yegros, Rudimental, Manu Chao.

Books: "Le bonheur au bout du guidon" by Christophe Cousin, "La Terre n'est qu'un seul pays" by André Brugiroux, "Les nourritures terrestres" by André Gide,
"Songs of silence" by Chandra Swami Udasin, "Small is beautiful" by E.F.Schumacher, "The power of now" by Eckhart Tolle,"The continuum concept" by Jean Liedlorff,"The one straw revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka, "You are therefore I am" by Satish Kumar, "Siddharta" by Herman Hesse.

Movies: "Scarface", "Snatch", "Inglorious Bastard", "12 years a slave", " Django", "Amélie Poulain", "Le péril jeune", "Arizona Dream", "Zeitgest", "Corporation", "Tokyo sonata".

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

From 2006 til 2009, a journey overland from France to South Asia and back, the Qhinghai train in China, rising sun over the Ganges in Varanasi, the Great wall in China, Transiberian train in Russia, Taj Mahal, the heavy monsoon in South India, Camel ride in Rajasthan, living in the Himalayas, the toy train in Darjeeling, the devotion of tibetan people in Tibet, the warm hospitality of Mongolian, colourful life of Nepal, generosity of Pakistani and Irani. The most amazing thing being to feel alive every new day !!!

Teach, Learn, Share

Can share anything about wine, from how to make wine to how to taste it or how to match it with food...
I want to learn horse riding and an other language( italian or spanish?)

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can go together to visit the pretty village of Saint-Emilion, visit some Dordogne villages, go to bassin d'Arcachon, dune du Pilat or Cap Féret...and many more! Just tell me how much time you have and what do you like the most.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, France, Switzerland

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