I live for the sunrise and die for the sunset; burning skies and pink shimmering waters. My spirit is at peace by the crashing waves or calm azure waters, surrounded by forests and birdsong, mountain springs, or wonderful panoramas, under starry night skies, rolling clouds, thundering rain, or blazing sunshine. Picking wild edible and medicinal plants. Reading Homeric epics or philosophical texts, non-fiction that's weirder than fiction, or dystopian novels. Life begins outside the comfort zone.

I'm now travelling in Asia, so I can't host you, but I'd love to meet you somewhere on the way!

========= Journeys and Places visited =====
2012-13
🧑‍🎓🇮🇪Galway, Ireland. Connemara, Limerick, Dingle, Belfast, Giant's Causeway, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Glasgow
🇪🇸 Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Toledo Granada, Córdoba, Sevilla, Guadalajara

2014-16 🧑‍🎓🇳🇱Leiden, Netherlands. Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Kinderdijk, Utrecht, Delft, Zeeland, 🇩🇪 Köln

2017 🇲🇦 Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Erg Chebbi, Fes, Meknes, Chefchaouen
🇹🇷 İstanbul
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London,
🇳🇱 Leiden, Utrecht,
🇪🇸 Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Madrid

2018 (mostly hitchhiking)
🇮🇹 Venezia,
🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Bled, Bohinj
🇭🇷 Zagreb
🇷🇸 Belgrade, Pančevo, Tara,
🇧🇦 Višegrad
🇷🇸 Subotica
🇭🇺 Budapest, Szeged
🇷🇸 Niš
🇲🇰 Skopje
🇬🇷 Thessaloniki, Larissa, Athens, Kalamata, Mani, Monemvasia, Nafplio, Delfi, Meteora
🇷🇴 Timišoara, Arad, Deva, Cheile Nerei, Retezat, Sibiu, Brašov, Bucharest, Cluj, Maramureš
🇺🇦 Uzhorod, Pylypets
🇮🇹 Modena, Bologna, Appennini, Garfagnana, Genova, Rovereto, Lago di Garda, Dolomiti, Trieste
🇸🇮 Izola, Piran, Portorož
🇭🇷 Senj, Zadar, Split, Omiš, Lastovo, Slatine
🇮🇹 Ancona, Iesi, Fabriano, Orvieto, Roma, Terracina, Gaeta, Napoli, Sorrento, Agropoli, Calabria, Catania

2019
🚶 Walking
🇮🇹 Roma, Rieti, Terni, Spoleto, Foligno, Trevi, Spello, Assisi, Perugia.
👍 Hitchhiking
Gubbio, Trieste (17hrs wait, had to take train)
🇸🇮 Soča, Bled
🇦🇹 Austria
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
🇨🇭 Zurich, Lac Leman, Geneva
🇫🇷 Annecy, Grenoble, Vercors, Ardèche, Aubenas, Nîmes, Sète, Perpignan, 🇦🇩 Andorra, Biarritz
🚶Walking
🇪🇸 Donostia - Camino del Norte - Santiago
👍Hitchhiking
Finisterre
🇵🇹 Porto

2020-21
💻 🇪🇸 Barcelona. Girona, Montserrat, 🇦🇩 Andorra, Aïguestortes

2022 🚐 Van
🇪🇸 East Coast, Cabo de Gata, Nerja, 🇬🇧 Gibraltar, Tarifa, Bolonya, Sevilla, Cádiz, Huelva
🇵🇹 Lagos, Alentejo, Lisboa
🇪🇸 Mérida, Tordesillas, Vitoria
🇫🇷 Fontainebleau
🇩🇪 Schwarzwald
🇨🇿 Brno, Praha,
👍 Hitchhiking
Prachovské skály
🇩🇪 Berlin
🚐
🇦🇹 Hallstatt, Sölkpaß
🇭🇷 Omiš, Dubrovnik
🇧🇦 Mostar
🇲🇪 Kotor
🇦🇱 Shkodër, Teth, Kruje, Ohrid Lake
🇬🇷 Ikaria, Mani

2023 👍hitchhiking / 🚌 bus / train 🚂
🇬🇷 Athens, Thessaloniki
🇹🇷 Vize, İğneada, Yalova, Eskişehir, Kapadokya, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Göbekli Tepe, Mardin, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Doğubayazıt
🇮🇷 Maku, Tabriz, Tehran, Mazandaran, Kashan, Isfahan, Semirom, Yasuj, Shiraz, Bandar Abbas, Hormuz, Chabahar
🇵🇰 Karachi, Islamabad, Besham, Chilas, Gilgit, Hunza, Passu, Lahore
🇮🇳 Amritsar, Dharamshala, Palampur, Mandi, Rewalsar, Shimla, Paonta Sahib, Rishikesh, Devprayag, Kasar Devi, Nanakmatta
🇳🇵Mahendranagar, Attariya, Kohalpur, Butwal, Tansen, Pokhara, Annapurna, Bandipur, Kathmandu

2024 👍hitchhiking
🇮🇳 Delhi, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Pushkar, Ajmer, Udaipur, Vadodara, Aurangabad/Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Ellora caves, Solapur, Hampi, Arambol, Panjim, Palolem, Gokarna, Mangalore, Thalassery, Varkala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kanniyakumari, Thiruvannamalai, Puducherry, Auroville
🇱🇰 Kandy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Finding new friendships, discovering places through a local eye.
Discover my own country through new perspectives, meet fellow travellers.
Give and receive hospitality, once considered sacred by the human race; break the wheels of the capitalistic machine.

Interests

• culture
• photography
• italian food
• cooking
• camping
• astronomy
• history
• languages
• philosophy
• solo travel
• adventure travel
• mountains
• travel
• food
• nature
• adventure
• wilderness
• trekking
• permaculture
• pizza
• mushrooms
• deep conversations
• cosmology
• wild camping
• campfire
• astrophysics
• nature walks
• organic farming
• astrophotography
• edible plants
• zero waste
• landscape photography

Music, Movies, and Books

The Doors of Perception
The Cosmic Serpent
Wisdom of Insecurity
Autobiography of a Yogi
Bhagavad-Gita
Dhammapada
Kafka
Carlos Castañeda
Moksha
Island
Walden
The Prophet
Into The Wild
Born To Run
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Sapiens, Homo Deus
Call of The Wild, White Fang
Century Trilogy

Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liszt, ...
Pink Floyd, Beatles, Queen, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin
Janis Joplin
Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Etta James,
João Gilberto, Cesária Evora
Ibrahim Maalouf
Buena Vista, Manu Chao
Andrea Bocelli, Pavarotti
Fazıl Say
Lhasa de Sela
Daniele Sepe

Movies.. I watch much less than I'd like to. Always looking for suggestions!
Baraka, Samsara
El Abrazo de la Serpiente
The Man from Earth
PRIDE
Hidden Figures

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

From Greece to Nepal without planes.
Leap of faith from a comfortable life to a most comfort-less but full-of-life way of travelling
Two and a half years of hitchhiking, wildcamping, couchsurfing, spontaneously finding hospitality and/or food, including two and a half months of amazing adventures on the Camino del Norte.
One month without buying anything containing or wrapped in plastic.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
travelling with very little to no money,
hitchhiking,
where to wildcamp,
finding spontaneous hospitality,
some wild plants you can eat (mostly Mediterranean),
firemaking tips
cooking great, healthy food while backpacking and at home
photography, timelapsing

Learn:
Languages

In Malta: share with you knowledge of and about many places

What I Can Share with Hosts

Time, experiences, philosophical conversations; possibly I can cook up a meal if they and their kitchen are rightly inclined.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Spain