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Overview

  • 10 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Danish, English, Spanish; learning German, Italian
  • 45, Other
  • Member since 2006
  • Fran: furniture and graphic designer. Anna: researcher
  • Uni
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

looking after family, friends, and ourselves

ABOUT ME

Anna is from Denmark and graduated in psychology. Fran is from Colombia and works as a graphic and furniture designer. We have lived in London from 2000 to 2008. In 2008 we moved to Copenhagen.

We enjoy meeting new people and experiencing other cultures, watching art house and world cinema movies, going to gigs, British comedy, good food.... we also enjoy cooking, going to exhibitions, dancing, going out, a good beer, running and cycling.

PHILOSOPHY

spoiling the ones close to us.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We've taking part in some gatherings and meetings in London like the CS freeze event in waterloo station. There's a clip on you tube here www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1H3lspr8yU
We're standing next to the bicycle.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

When we lived in London we hosted people from Spain, Holland, Italy, Canada, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Guatemala.

We've been to Paris, Berlin and New York staying with some amazing couchsurfers!

Interests

Art, photography, music, design, sports, history, travelling, food, going to markets especially food markets, cycling, running, swimming, cooking.

  • arts
  • design
  • photography
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • beer
  • running
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • live music
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • sports
  • swimming
  • history
  • psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

We are movie and music fanatics. Fran is more of a music fanatic than Anna though.

Movies: world cinema, documentaries fx 5 broken cameras, Little miss sunshine, disgrace, Percepolis, fishtank, cinema paradiso, Happy Go Lucky, where the wild things are, Wes Anderson and Mike Leigh movies, and more.

series: Breaking Bad, Mad men

comedies: black books, spaced, peepshow, flights of the concords ...

Music: jazz, electronic, drum and bass, hip hop, funk anything really fx. Trentemoller, ralph myerz, fat freddy's drop, gogol bordello, biosphere, Boards Of Canada, Cinematic Orchestra, Fela Kuti, Erykah Badu, Gilles Peterson, cuban, brazilian, ibrahim ferrer, zero seven, Gotan project, whitest boy alive, cut copy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Fran: Seeing the Olafur Eliasson instalations in Arhus, Hiking Tairona park in colombia, Swiming the caribbean.

Anna: Visiting Colombia. It was an amazing trip. When Fran and I just stumbled on this live music in the Southbank centre in London (Nathan Lee Flutebox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEcMBc1SBII )-great talent!

Teach, Learn, Share

we have now lived in Copenhagen for 5 years, and have found some favorite spots we can recommend.

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