I live in a house with my wife and several pets 1 1/2 miles from the centre of Fürth. We often get visits from our Children and Grandchild.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I enjoy travelling especially to exciting cities. It's stimulating. But, to be honest to you, I'm actually more interested in the people and their way of life, attitudes and thoughts than only sightseeing. I've hosted people from India (9) 🇮🇳, Chile 🇨🇱, Mexico 🇲🇽 (2), Italy 🇮🇹 (2), Brazil 🇧🇷, Morocco 🇲🇦 , USA 🇺🇸(2) , Germany 🇩🇪 (15), Korea 🇰🇷 (2), France 🇫🇷 (4), Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 , Tasmania 🇦🇺 (2), Switzerland 🇨🇭, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, Ecuador 🇪🇨, Russia 🇷🇺 (2), Denmark 🇩🇰, Slovenia 🇸🇮, Taiwan 🇹🇼, Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Ukraine 🇺🇦, New Zealand 🇳🇿, Great Britain 🇬🇧 (2), Sweden 🇸🇪, United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪, Japan 🇯🇵, Venezuela 🇻🇪, Bangladesh🇧🇩, Columbia 🇨🇴 (2), Turkey 🇹🇷 (2), Israel 🇮🇱, Estonia 🇪🇪, Malaysia 🇲🇾, Albania 🇦🇱 and Hungary 🇭🇺.

Interests

My favorite hobby apart Couchsurfing is beekeeping. It´s very interesting and exciting for me.
Last year I got about 20 stings! Ouch!!!
I also like playing some piano and cajon, used to play drums in jazzrock-, soul- and rhythm´n´ blues bands.
I love gardening, especially hedge-trimming and cutting plants into different sculptures (as you can see in my pictures). My hedge in front of the house is meanwhile famous in the district ;-)
I admire landart e.g. from Goldsworthy and the sculptures from Niki de Saint Phalle (especially the tarot garden in Italy).
Moreover I like to create photobooks, photo Flipboard and furthermore hiking, running (not too fast) and biking when I'm too lazy to take the car.

• arts
• street art
• traveling
• music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Last in the beginning of may I caught 3 swarms of bees within a week (the first one you can see in one of the pictures).

Teach, Learn, Share

LOCAL EVENTS IN FÜRTH

"Grafflmarkt": It's a very nice and famous flea market.
"Michaeliskirchweih": It's the best fair in northern franconia and it's not on a boring place outside the city. It's in the streets of the heart of the city! (It's also called "the queen of the franconian fairs"): http://www.michaelis-kirchweih.de/
And a nice music festival for free: http://new-orleans-festival.de/ Fürth Festival

LOCAL EVENTS IN NÜRNBERG

"Bardentreffen" It's a wonderful and famous music festival in the city for free: http://bardentreffen.de
It takes place at the last weekend of July.
"Trempelmarkt" also a very nice but often more expensive flea market.

LOCAL VENUES IN FÜRTH

http://www.babylon-kino-fuerth.de/veranstaltung
http://kofferfabrik.cc

What I Can Share with Hosts

Nice stories about Couchsurfing and beekeeping ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany