CURRENT MISSION

Deutsch lernen!

ABOUT ME

We'll have plenty of time to verbose over my persona later - preferably over strong coffee.

PHILOSOPHY

Happiness only real when shared

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

More than a couple of years ago now, I was hosted in many cities in Ireland and Spain. I greeted a small number of travelers in Madrid and Cambridge. Time and again, a wonderful experience of kindness.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

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Interests

Non-exhaustive list:

Intellectual: XVIII and XIXth century French literature and thought; European culture, and the debates revolving around the EU; left-wing politics (from marxism to Jaurés and Keynes); feminism; environmentalism; economics; languages; creative writing; art; D.H Lawrence (!).

Other: English breakfast tea with the right dosis of milk, my Berlin milchkaffee under the sun, Clärchens Ballhaus, Berghain to name two of the capital's venues; English comedy (not the 9 o'Clock news, Jeeves and Wooster, Monty Python etc.); Brittany (France), its freshly carved coasts; colourful British accents; long walks; hammams.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• womens rights
• breakfast
• coffee
• politics
• news
• economics
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Some writers/poets:

French: Diderot, Stendhal, Flaubert, Céard, Anthelme, Yourcenar, Gracq, Beauvoir..
English: D.H Lawrence, T.S Eliot, Lessing..
German: Rilke, Schlink..
Spanish/Latin American: Unamuno, Carlos Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Valenzuela, Vargas Llosa, Arlt..

Political/economics authors:

Keynes, Hayek, Naomi Klein, Marie-Monique Robin, George Monbiot, Sthatis Kouvelakis, Jaures, Tim Congdon...

Some painters:

Turner, Degas, Bonnard, Kandinsky, Chagall...

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One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

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Teach, Learn, Share

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