CURRENT MISSION
go to "laggoon-style restaurants where mobsters eat lobsters" (Martin Amis, great writer, in his novel: Money)

ABOUT ME
Collecting stories of people and turning them into podcasts, novels... that's basically the way I earn a living.

Quite adaptable.

PHILOSOPHY
le Hasard (look up this word, it's a great word, and it doesn't exist in English, apart from "Chance")

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

It's been a while I haven't couchsurfed. I started couchsurfing in Montreal in 2006, making friends thanks to the community, and getting some time to find an appartment to live in for the year. Then I couchsurfed in Nancy, then in Paris where I met Frédérique de Gravelaine, my favorite couchsurfer. She hosts about half the world every year in le 12ème arrondissement... then around the mediterranean for a book project: www.histoiresvraies.org , collecting true stories of the people around that sea... it was great to be able to meet people in those different countries I didn't know to start with...
Now it's been ten years I'm living in Marseille, owning a small apartment in the center.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
we had a very skinny activist at one point, when I was sharing an appartment in Lyon. I cooked him a dozen rhum-pancakes before he left. I felt better afterwards.

Interessen

Litterature, cinema, podcasts
www.histoiresvraies.org

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Beaune

• books
• movies
• storytelling

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Steinbeck, Flaubert, Dostoievski, Kennedy Toole, ect...
Kidding, the tv series with Jim Carrey.
Tom Waits
Taxi Driver

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

I swam across the Dunav (Danube) with a Tchetnik. That was a few years ago in Serbia, Voivodina.

Lehren, lernen, teilen

Rub the palms of your hands if you feel tired. If you're bored, try the same with your feet.

Was ich mit Gastgebern teilen kann

the pleasure to tell eachother a bit about our lives, to share a few anecdotes and try to experience other points of view.

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Canada, England, France, Ireland, Isle of Man, Lebanon

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