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Overview

  • 12 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Afrikaans, English; learning Spanish
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Architect
  • Masters degree in architecture
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Working hard and enjoying Cape Town

ABOUT ME

I'm creative, peaceful and adventurous. Easy going and friendly. Always up for doing new and interesting things and meeting new people

PHILOSOPHY

ELE: Everybody Love Everybody.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted and hung out with Couchsurfers mostly around Cape Town and recently in Mumbai. I like showing travellers the places, people and things that I love in my town.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only good experiences so far. Couchsurfing is a fantastic way to immerse yourself in different cultures while traveling or hosting.

Interests

I like to cycle around town on my bicycle with nowhere in particular to go to. I enjoy reading, hiking, photography, illustration, graphic design, origami, meditation, concerts, festivals, good food with good people...

  • architecture
  • design
  • graphic design
  • photography
  • illustrations
  • concerts
  • festivals
  • dining
  • meditation
  • walking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • origami
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • kayaking

Music, Movies, and Books

Any music sounding remotely like: Beck, The Black keys, The xx, Fink, Casualties of Cool, Grimes, Grizzly Bear, Justice, Death in Vegas, Devendra Banhart, Sigur Ros, The White Stripes, Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin, Beach House, Bon Iver, Queen, Benjamin Booker, Nirvana, Miles Davis, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ali Farka Toure...

Some of my favorite books include:
The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson,
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami,
Moby Dick by Herman Melville,
Generation X by Douglas Coupland,
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking in Ladakh, India. Kayaking in Halong bay, Vietnam. Walking around Paris on a rainy day. My morning cycle through the Company Gardens in Cape Town on the way to work.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to fold some origami and maybe a thing or two about architecture and photo editing.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, India, Laos, Lesotho, Namibia, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa

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