CURRENT MISSION

Exploring couchsurfing

ABOUT ME

Welcome!
My name is Edo and I'm from Holland. I live near Rotterdam (about 30 mins by car to the centre) in a neat little village. I live on my own in a house with a nice garden.

I work as a teacher in this area and before I used to do some research at a technical university every once in a while.

I can accommodate two people, or more if they are ok with sleeping on an air mattress. Unfortunately I work long days so if you want to visit, it has to be during the weekend or while I have school holidays. Sunday I attend church and you are most welcome to join; we have a translation service to English, in fact I am one of the people who do the translations! At request we also have translation service to French and we sing an English song nearly every week!

I'm a vegetarian, so a bit difficult with food every now and than! On the other hand, every week I have people who gladly come to my place for a meal and I do enjoy cooking for others! So if you visit I will make a wonderful meal for you, trust me! I am famous for my secret red cabbage recipe and my pancakes! :) I have made pancakes in nearly all the countries I visited! I might just one day open an international pancake-restaurant-chain!

PHILOSOPHY

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Offering people a place to sleep and asking to stay at other people's place if I have the chance to travel myself!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I joined my friend Jeroen several times when he was couchsurfing. Now that I have a place of my own I decided to host people as well!

Interests

- Travelling (by train),
- Speaking a variety of languages, learning about other cultures,
- Walking, cycling and driving my car,
- Several sports and I have taken up ballroom dancing as well,
- Watching some tv-series,
- Playing board games.

• singing
• dancing
• ballroom dancing
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• walking
• gardening
• board games
• tv
• traveling
• cycling
• sports
• chemistry
• teaching
• languages
• mathematics
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Star Wars,
Indiana Jones,
Lord of the Rings
Aeon flux

Music:
A-ha,
Dire Straits,
U2
UB40

Books:
Bible
Game of Thrones series
Works of Tolkien en C.S. Lewis

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Excursion to Chernobyl (Ukraine)

Teach, Learn, Share

Physics, mathematics, chemistry and several languages.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City State

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