"Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet..." - Bob Marley
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart" - Goethe

Those are 2 quotes (I love quotes) that summarize pretty well my philosophy.

Another one, that explains why I am on Couchsurfing is: "Traveling without meeting the people is not traveling, it is just moving from a place to another one" from Alexandra David-Néel

After my studies I traveled through New-Zealand, Australia and Asia in a pretty classic "backpacking" way. Although I loved it, I also ended up quite frustrated from not getting much more insights from the "local" lifestyle than a glance on the surface, mainly meeting fellow travelers.

That's why, when I went to travel in Southern Africa (after a year in England replenishing the bank account), I used couchsurfing, helpX and other similar communities regularly to immerse myself as much as possible. And that way of traveling fulfilled way more. I ended up living in a Guest Lodge in the mountains of South Africa, in a campsite near a National Park in Botswana or in a village next to the Victoria falls. And now, I can't really imagine myself traveling in a different way.

Today, I'm traveling with my girlfriend on a bicycle (after 2 years living in Amsterdam, replenishing the bank account again ^^). We started from Amsterdam, and our first goal was to get to South of Spain before keeping on the adventure in Latin America (checked).

And as you can imagine, this adventure is about grasping a tiny bit better the richness and diversity of humanity (this is why we love Couchsurfing and Warmshowers so much). And we are also very keen on learning more about sustainability and how we and other people can contribute to a more beautiful world.

Our profile on warmshowers: https://www.warmshowers.org/user/130221
We are also on facebook --> https://www.facebook.com/bikepackingchronicles/

Interests

meeting new people and discussing with them all night long, dancing, meditating, diving, reading, writing, cooking and eating (I started a new challenge: being vegetarian) and of course travelling and discovering new countries/new cultures (but did I need to mention it again?)

• design
• dancing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• scuba diving
• sailing
• languages
• psychology
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• mountains
• permaculture
• ecovillages
• sustainable living
• self-sufficiency

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES

Samsara - Baraka - Holly motors - American Beauty - Into The Wild - The Butterfly Effect - Dead Poets Society - Cast Away - Forrest Gump - Finding Neverland - Lord of War - Sin City - Pulp Fiction - Snatch - Requiem For A Dream - Hotaru No Haka - l'Auberge Espagnole - Paris je t'aime - City of God - Lost in Translation...

MUSIC

House, mainly deep house, tropical house and chill electronic

BOOKS

the comic strips "Calvin & Hobbes" from Watterson !!!!

And many more authors like Kressman Taylor, Stefan Zweig, Paulo Coelho, Herman Hesse, Marcel Pagnol, John Steinbeck, Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, Boris Vian, Bernard Werber, Philippe Labro, Muriel Barbery...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Piloting an aircraft for 30 seconds when I was 10 years old
- Sailing for 1 week along the french atlantic coast
- Hiking in New Zealand
- Driving a 4WD over 14,000 km in the australian outback
- Diving in Thailand
- Taking part in a meditation retreat in Thailand
- Hitchhiking for 1 month through France and Italy
- Living 2 months in the bush camp near Chobe national park in Botswana (ending with a 1 week stay in a 5 stars lodge in a private concession for free)

And many more little things (like making my own hiking gear, sleeping bag, pack, tent...) which seem pointless but fulfill a life

Teach, Learn, Share

meditation, languages, travel spots, sewing, ultralight hiking gears, cognitive psychology, philosophy

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, China, Germany, Ireland, Malaysia, Mozambique, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Botswana, France, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom

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