CURRENT MISSION

Speak 5 languages

ABOUT ME

Basically I love to do many things:
- eat :
I just love food or going to restaurants with friends (especially cheap but good restaurants). When I travel I really enjoy trying local food.

- travel :
I enjoy new places, adventures, new people... For example in Iceland I only used hitchhiking and I met a lot of different, interesting people.

- play videogames :
Since I'm 4, I play videogames. I began with Tetris, Arkanoid, Sokoban, Block Out, Lemmings, Bomberman, Shufflepuck Cafe, Columns... Then I played Doom, Civilization, Heroes of Might and Magic, Might and Magic, Fifa 98, Arcanum... And after that Skyrim, Fifa 2013, Dishonored... I never had a TV so I never had any game console. But I still have an old Game Boy pocket, an Atari Lynx and a Nintendo DS. Oh and my favourite game is of course Tetris!

- go to the movies :
I have an UGC unlimited card (MK2/UGC/others) but I don't have enough time to use it as I want to. I enjoy all kinds of movies: classic or old films, animations, recent movies, romantic comedy, comedy drama...

- read :
One again I don't have enough time. But I love it!I usually read when I take the metro. It could explain why I LOVE taking the metro...
Oh and I had a poster saying: "travailler moins pour lire plus" (work less to read more) and I think it's just brilliant!

- walk :
I think it's the best way to discover a new place or to rediscover the place where I live. Rollerblade or bike is nice too (except when it's raining)!

- puzzle :
I have several puzzles from 500 to 18.000 pieces. I really want to do my puzzle with 18.000 pieces but I don't have enough space... it's only 6m² though!

- sports :
I play a lot of sports. I'm used to climb once a week. When I'm on holydays I hike/go snowboarding/go surfing/swim... And when I'm not I love office chair racing.
When I lived in Corsica I practiced trail runing. Then I ran my first half marathon on the 31th of August 2013 and my first marathon on the 6th of April 204.
The races I ran: Trail des Falaises (13km, 410m+), E nivere (17km, 1300m+), Paris 20 km (20km), Lille half marathon (21.1km), Anthony half marathon (21.1km), Paris Marathon (42.2km).

- visit new places :
When I lived in Berlin I visited the city for one year with my bike and I discovered amazing buildings and places. Sometimes I try to do the same in France.
I also like going in abandonned places or "less authorised" places : catacombes, old quarries, rooftops...

But I hate struggling with my computer! Then I can be very irritated :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Unfortunately I don't have any couch right now and I'm looking for a flat in Paris. As soon as I have one, I will host again!

Meanwhile I can show you some nice places in Paris!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I already hosted and surfed a lot with an other profile (https://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=AWL00IP&from_search&search_ranking_names=1). I met a lot of funny, intersting, amazing people and I want to do it again!

Interests

urban exploration, movies, books, politics, philosophy, musics, TV shows, museums, good food, sport, history, Berlin, Germany, travel, languages, culture, beer...

Recently with some friends I have created a website on museums and exhibitions in Paris and in Île-de-France : www.touslesmusees.fr
Unfortunately it has not yet been translated into english but we're working on it!.

• culture
• books
• dining
• chocolate
• wine
• cheese
• beer
• marathon
• politics
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• puzzles
• origami
• magic
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• snowboarding
• sports
• rock climbing
• swimming
• world cup
• history
• languages
• hitchhiking
• urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: tim burton (well maybe not his last movies), murnau, tarantino, kim ki-duk, fritz lang, kubrick, hitchcock, Eisenstein, Caro/Jeunet, wes anderson, monty python...

Music: Boris Vian, Mano Solo, kinks, creedence clearwater revival, patty smith, bob dylan, naive new beaters, chapelier fou, paul kalkbrenner, compay secundo, buena vista social club, lhasa, pink martini, fatals picards, metronomy, wise guys, the clash, wir sind helden, toten hosen, lionel hampton, blues brothers, earth wind and fire, tower of power, java, MAP...

Books: Proust, John Irving, Flaubert, McMaster Bujold, Ionesco, Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram), Jonathan Safran Foer, Boris Vian, Baudelaire, Giono, Voutch, Murakami...

Artists: Bacon, Nicolas de Staël, Matisse, Magritte, Delacroix, Malevitch, Olafur Eliasson, Christian de Portzamparc, Yves Klein, Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci (but I don't really like the Mona Lisa), El Greco, George Grosz, Basquiat, Gregory Crewdson, Renoir, Cartier-Bresson, Nicolas Poussin, Fra Angelico, Michelangelo (not the Ninja Turtle), Brunelleschi and so many others!

TV shows: Soprano, How not to live your life, Game of Thrones, True Blood, Six Feet Under, Oz, Generation Kill, Friends, Better off Ted, House of cards, Nashville, Orange is the new black...

My favourite museums in Paris are: Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg), musée des arts et métiers, musée Rodin (and its great garden)... and of course all the streets!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking and hitchhiking around Iceland
Climbing Mt Fuji by night
Visiting Mongolia and Cuba
Living in Berlin
Doing a parachute jump
...

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: french language, some nice places in paris (restaurants, bars, museums, buildings...), how to make an origami crane...

Learn: languages, new kind of food or beers

Share: urban exploration, pictures, memories, chocolate, wine, cheese, beer, food...

What I Can Share with Hosts

tips, memories, pictures, good beers...

I'm currently creating a website on museums and exhibitions in Paris et Île-de-France so I can give you some advice!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Cuba, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany

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