CURRENT MISSION

Making most of my time on this planet as a peculiar autonomous being.

ABOUT ME

About myself..pff.. without being too cliche...hmm Fiona, 31 years old, I've studied History. I could describe myself as enthusiastic, curious, creative, spontaneous and maybe even adventurous. Usually you could recognise me by my vivid coloured clothes and sometimes bare feet. I enjoy travelling, especially hitchhiking. I enjoy music, parties, festivals, theater, art, dancing, reading, writing, photography, films and meeting new people. I am interested in the history and culture of different places. I try to wrap my head around political issues, and to speak up against injustice. We need to strive for a better world, and I try to figure out my possibilities to do so. Something like this?..

PHILOSOPHY

Sometimes it's hard to find a good balance between being happy and grateful for what you have, and staying aware of the things that you'd like to change. Both are important.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've both surfed and hosted quite a lot. Nowadays I am not accepting just any couch request anymore. I need to feel like there are some common interests and that we would click. I might turn your request down if I don't think we're on the same page. LGBTQI+ friendly host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed:

- Julie and Matthias in Berlin, with Elger
- Loesje and Kaska in Antwerp, with Maciek
- Oksana and Nathan in Baarn, with Lara (for reference see Lara's profile)
- Mehdi in Den Haag
- Albert in Den Haag
- Leopold in Berlin, with Maciek
- Karl in San Francisco, with Goenav, Willemijn and Martin
- Helen in Cerritos - Los Angeles, with Goenav, Willemijn and Martin
- Tomi in Skopje
- Bashkim in Zagreb
- Magda and Garrett in Prague
- Sassa in Berlin, with Albert
- Panagiotis in Delft
- Aura in Barcelona, with Albert (although we didn't find our host through CS)
- Sam in Sai Gon, with Albert
- Binh in Da Lat, with Albert
- Hoa in Quy Nhon, with Albert
- Caro and Alejo in Ha Long, with Albert
- Dien in Ha Noi, with Albert
- Sunna in Berlin
- Bráulio in Porto, with Albert
- Meeting Yannick in Abidjan, with Albert
- Abdoul Karim in Abidjan, with Albert

Hosted:

- Jutta from Germany
- Mareike from Germany and Ronald from the Netherlands
- Julie from Belgium and Lucy from the U.K.
- Christina from Canada, Eugene from the Netherlands and their 17 month old daughter Cecil.
- Mira from Germany.
- Abby and Tim from Australia for dinner.
- Sjoerd from the Netherlands.
- Franziska from Germany.
- Tobias and Sina from Germany
- Jehki from Finland
- Margot from The Netherlands
- Chiara from Italy and Maria from Malta
- Jake and Ben from the USA
- Cagri from Turkey
- Alberto and Daniele from Italy
- Karl from the USA
- Saana and Valtteri from Finland
- Herve from France
- Yaniv and Nadav from Israel
- Addie from Mexico
- Panagiotis from Greece
- Ida from Sweden
- Dashon from the USA
- Rafael from Argentina
- Ira from Canada
- Laura and Arno from France
- Melissa from NL, no CS but just a random hitchhiker :)
- Franck from Cameroon (just for dinner)
- Nitin from India
- Ilya and Polina from Russia
- Alina from Germany
- Sylwia and Renata from Poland
- Lena from Germany
- Natalia from Poland
- Hany from Egypt
- Marcello from everywhere
- Olivia from the UK
- Gašper from Slovenia
- Abril from Italy
- Signe from Sweden
- Giulia from Italy
- Anton from Russia
- Mia and Jeroen from Belgium
- Ilyas from Morocco
- Emilia from Germany
- Baptiste from France
- KitKat from the States

Couple of CS meetings in Groningen, Leeuwarden, The Hague and Berlin

Interests

travelling,
history,
hitchhiking,
theatre,
film,
photography,
(street-) art,
literature,
philosophy (Eastern & Western),
making music, singing
learning about cultures,
languages,
good conversations,
good food,
mother nature,
birth, death, rites of passage
squatting,
urbex,
skipping/dumpsterdiving,
psychonautism,
intersectional feminism,
activism,
anarchism

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• theater
• architecture
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• partying
• motorcycles
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• history
• languages
• hitchhiking
• nature
• activism
• feminism
• urbex
• anarchism
• squatting
• dumpsterdiving
• queer culture
• psychonautism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Waking Life, Enter the Void, Into the Wild, Hair, Amelie Poulain, Das Leben der Anderen, Zusje, Pulp Fiction, The Blues Brothers, La Grande Seduction, Juno, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Yellow Submarine, Simon, Snatch, Intouchables, Before Sunrise and many many more...

Series: Pose, Rick and Morty, Mr. Robot, Black Mirror, Orange Is The New Black, Handmaid's Tale, etc etc

Music: ranging from anarcho folk to some old kitchy eurovision entries. Soul, funk, desert blues, cumbia, and music from far away places.

Books: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, On the Road, The Art of Loving, Women Who Run with Wolves, No One Gets Out Alive, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Cloud Atlas, La Mujer Habitada/The Inhabited Woman, Hundred Years of Solitude, and many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

InterRailing for one month through Europe 2008
Spending 5 months living in Berlin 2009
Boom Festival 2014 & 2016
Travelling through Asia for 6 months 2014-2015
Albert and I taught ourselves how to drive manual motorcycles and drove through Vietnam and Laos 2015
Trekking in Chapada Diamantina National Park, Brazil 2016
Hitchhiking and wild camping in Costa Rica 2018
Started working as a doula (non-medical birth companion) and saw babies being born 2018-present
Hitchhiking for well over 20.000km :) 2009-present

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to hula hoop, and as a tour guide I can teach you about my city's history and current events.

You can teach me your language and your cuisine.

We could discuss philosophy, history, music, politics, your mom's health etc. etc. We can share our stories and our card games/wine/shisha/you name it ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Laos, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands

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