CURRENT MISSION

Going around the world while making a radio documentary on intentional communities

ABOUT ME

Curious traveler, happy freethinker, self-taught musician, keen conversationalist, reckless lover, avid reader and admirer of life.

PHILOSOPHY

Everywhere I go there are good people. Everywhere I go there is great nature. All around me there is beauty. My job is only to tune in.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Somehow I have managed to couch surf a lot without going online (i.e. made friends on the street or through mutual friends) but I have also used couchsurfing.org in France and now in New Zealand. I haven't actually hosted people via the website, but wherever I live I always seem to have a few people crashing on my couch. What goes around comes around :-)

Interests

Intentional communities, musical instruments, travelling, reading, carpentry and alternative building, loving and laughing, making friends, writing, making radio-documentaries and on and on and on...

• writing
• documentaries
• beauty
• festivals
• human rights
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• muslim
• communications
• journalism
• tourism

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

So many to choose from, so here's a selection:

Summer solstice at Stonehenge in 2001 when they opened up to the public for the first time in 20+ years.

Being a Human Rights Activist in Cambodia.

Living and working in the Anarchist Freetown of Christiania.

Meeting all the world leaders at the infamous/dubious World Conference on Climate in Copenhagen 2009.

Solar Eclipse Festival in Australia 2012

Being a reporter for Tibetan Media in the Indian Himalayas.

Being an uncle to my brothers' and my best friends' children.

Attending the West African Islamic "Mecca" festival in Touba, Senegal.

Being a Tour-Guide in Sri Lanka, living in 5-star luxury (very rare treat for me :-)

Seeing the midnight sun at a hippie festival in the far north of Norway.

Growing up 5 years on the east coast of Greenland.

Jeez, I gotta stop at some point...

Teach, Learn, Share

I have lived in, visited and researched a whole bunch of intentional communities around the world and I offer anyone my experiences from living communally. I can also edit any text you might need a second opinion on, I can build/fix your living space, teach you how to play the guitar and/or mandolin and I give a pretty good back-massage to get rid of those knots and tensions that we all seem to accumulate.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Faroe Islands, France, Gambia, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tonga, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Cambodia, Denmark, Greenland, India, Ireland, United Kingdom