CURRENT MISSION
Fill up like a sponge with life's quirks.

ABOUT ME
Part time physician, part time traveller, part time bibliophile. Somehow managing all three.
I can be both calm and talkative and I enjoy stimulating talks over coffee. I write better than I speak. I'm dedicated towards others and demanding of myself. I need time alone to recharge my batteries.
Living to see what the world has to offer. So far so good.

PHILOSOPHY
People are intrinsically willing to be good but will wrong do if pushed.
The world is a daunting place and almost as big as we think it is, but worth fighting for.
Living is both presently existencial and future-oriented and to forfeit one for the other is asking for trouble.
When the heart speaks the mind finds it indecent to object, but it sure as hell should learn to. Gently. Dialogue was always the key to lasting relationships.
Things are mostly random and fate's like a mistress, yet to ignore the coincidences that dot life's picture is to willfully remove meaning from the experience of living.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Pia, Gisela (AT); Sebastian (CL); Gabriel (HU); Rita & Mesi, Ioachim & Roxana, Ovidiu & Mihaela, Carmen (RO); Karolina, Grzegorz (PL); Oscar (CO); Tsveto, Joanna (BG); Martine, Flo (FR); Milomir (ME); Lara & Mario, Boris (HR); Emily & Sasha (CA); Lai (HK); Rudolf, Keren, Petra (CH); Alya (RU); Jonas (BE), Ricky (AR)

Interests

• books
• photography
• cooking
• coffee
• traveling
• hiking
• medicine
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:
The Pan's Labyrinth, The Lord of The Rings, mostly anything Aronofsky.

MUSIC:
Loreena McKennitt, Bon Iver, Ólafur Arnalds, Ludovico Einaudi, Zbigniew Preisner (mood depending)

BOOKS:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Lord of the Rings, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Lord of the Flies, Waiting for Godot.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Argentina North-South & Patagonia hike frenzy | Nov-Dec 2015
Solo hitch-hiking tour for 42 days around the Balkans | Feb-April 2014
ERASMUS in Slovenia | Sep-Feb 2103-14
Way of St. James | Feb 2013
Unexpected blizzard, somewhere in Galicia, Spain | Dec 2010

Teach, Learn, Share

How to stitch wounds (not advisable), operating DSLR cameras, how best to sniff books.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking & cleaning skills, healthcare rather modestly, precious world experience and unbound and untampered eagerness to include everyone in the brief joys of living.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland