CURRENT MISSION

Hoping to find myself by meeting other people with bright minds and sweet souls :P

ABOUT ME

Open, interested, caring and trustworthy guy.
Love to meet new people!
What's your story?

PHILOSOPHY

"Travel often, getting lost will help you find yourself!" / "If you are looking for love of your life, stop! They will be waiting for you when you start doing the things you love."
- Holstee Manifesto

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
- Kahlil Gibran

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host as often as I can, but nobody wants to go here? C'mon people, you don't know what you are missing.

I have surfed couches in Europe and South America. I love to get to know new people :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have hosted a few people and showed them the beauty of Fryslan. In September of 2012 I have started surfing. I traveled from my hometown of Heerenveen to Gothenburg (Sweden) by bike (and 6 ferry's to cross rivers and the sea). It was a life-changing experience for me!

After giving up my job in April of 2013, I went to Spain to learn Spanish as a preparation for my first big trip: in August of 2013 I have traveled Latin America for 5 months! Que chévere!!! :)

Interests

Interested in meeting new people, seeing where they live, hearing their stories and hoping to learn from their life lessons.

Love books, movies and music (listening and beginning guitar playing). I enjoy biking and walking. I run and swim to keep in shape, don't really enjoy it while I do it though, but the feeling afterwards is nice. I can really relax on a sailing boat on a Frisian lake. All you have to worry about is the wind.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies
American Beauty | Arlington Road | Garden State | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Everything's Illuminated | Into the Wild | Intouchables | Life is Beautiful | Lost in Translation | Love Actually | Shawshank Redemption | The Lives of Others | The Worlds Fastest Indian

Music
Counting Crows | Daft Punk | Damien Rice | Eddie Vedder | Eels | Frou Frou | Gavin DeGraw | Heather Nova | Jack Johnson | John Mayer | K's Choice | Matchbox Twenty | Mumford and Sons | Radiohead | Regina Spektor | Tori Amos | Zero 7

Books
1984 | 1q84 | A Million Little Pieces | Everything Is Illuminated | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Love in the Time of Cholera | Shutter Island | The Fault In Our Stars | The Piano | The Perfume

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Whitehouse Tour & Empire State Building Observatory (USA)
Para-sailing in the Caribbean and nearly drowning (Saint Martin)
Las cataratas del Iguazú (Argentina & Brasil)
El camino del Incas a Machu Picchu (Peru)
Deathroad on Mountainbike (Bolivia)
El Salsódromo en la feria de Cali (Colombia)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
Websites | Social Media | Biking | Sailing | Fryslân | Dutch & Frisian Language

Learn:
Guitar | Spanish | Culture | Music | Literature

Share:
My love for Fryslân | Life philosophy | Respect for nature

What I Can Share with Hosts

A healty, nutritious and usually delicious meal ;-) | A hot shower | A comfortable bed | A clean room | A good conversation | If my finances improve a bit more: A good glass of wine :P

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands Antilles, Peru, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands

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