Fully vaccinated, 3x Moderna/spikevax, 1x Pfizer.
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I wear shorts. Also sometimes in winter. Only on rare occasions i wear long pants (motorcycling, snow or ice, cultural differences in countries I visit).

I'm in love with seeing new places and to travel around. I travel by bicycle or motorcycle, sometimes train or car. In 2021 I added a scooter to travel slow, max speed is 25 km/h. I went to the South Coast of England, CS'ed a lot and it was fantastic.

I'm calm, enthusiastic, easy going, i try to avoid crowded places and feel at home in nature and around nice people. I can cook.
I'm not vegan or vegetarian, but I appreciate it and like it.
Drawing is not in my nature, but I do it sometimes and I enjoy it. Ask about it when we meet and i will show my drawings.
I'm not handsome, but very friendly :-). Not an outgoing type... But certainly not boring!

Unfortunately, I have had many difficulties finding a host as a solo, male traveller. So if you recieve my request, please answer, even if I can't come to your house. I try to answer very quickly myself as well. I have a girlfriend, Martine.
We actually do host too!

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

The social part of Couchsurfing is what I seek here.
To travel Europe and to be a host to fellow travellers.
Meeting people and hearing stories is important to me. While travelling, i'm making memories and friends.

Centres d'intérêt

• photography
• education
• woodworking
• leatherworking
• nature
• bicycle touring
• motorcycling
• nature photography
• landscape photography
• spooncarving
• woodlice

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

I like reading but I don't do it as often as I would like. I mostly read travel stories, like Lois Pryce, Redmond O'Hanlon, Oisin Hughes, ... Currently reading John Flanagan's series "Rangers apprentice".
Movies: it is difficult to say, but I definitely like Tarantino. Also documentaries about nature, food, ... The big bang theory, the office, black books, ...
Music is even more difficult to say. I like a lot of kinds of music, from Folk and Classic Music, Metal and Rock to Lady Gaga, Pussy Riot, The Stones, Queen and Urbanus.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

I learned to make spoons from fresh wood, by hand. No power tools!
Update: I'm getting better slowly!
In 2020 I also started woodturning on a lathe.

2022: making bread from scratch, by hand.

2022: motorcycle roadtrip to Iran and back for 9 weeks. The greatest trip of my life!

2024: trip to Turkey to visit friends but also to learn leathercrafts. What a great way to travel!

I wrote a book (co-author) on isopods (woodlice/pissebedden/cloportes/asseln) in Belgium.

To Poland and back, hitchhiking. And 10 years later again on a motorcycle.

To the mediteranean sea on a bicycle.

To Berlin on a bicycle.

Amazing things I will try to do in the future: Riding to Mongolia on a motorbike. Driving 1500 km to Switserland and back on a 25 km/h scooter (see slowtoswiss.be but it is in Dutch).

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

I'm a professional allround photographer, so I can offer help if you don't understand your camera. Or Adobe Lightroom.
I'm learning to work with leather and to make bags and other usefull things.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

I could bring top-of-the-line Belgian chocolate? It's comparable to Swiss, but the Swiss will say theirs is better. :-)
I make speculoos at home and I will bring it!
If I have the stuff with me, I can sharpen your knives.

I'm a professional allround photographer, so I can offer help if you don't understand your camera. Or Lightroom.

Pays que j'ai visités

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Belgium, Portugal