📌 before any request please make sure you have read my HOME DESCRIPTION at least, cheers ;-)

Happy, funny, easy going, open minded, bla bla bla... Why everybody want to ear the same things ? No seriously, I'm just a normal person :-)
(neither a serial killer, nor a kitten eater).

I grew up in France, Auvergne

I live in Australia since 2020

Since 2022 I am a permanent resident of Melliodora, Vic, the place created by Su and David Holmgren, co-originator of permaculture.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

🔆 I did the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela from my home till the end, 2000 km in winter 2018-2019, by myself and with low money. During 8 months of a long walk, almost every day, people who didn't know me hosted me, offered me a warm meal and shared their house without asking me anything in return.

Now it is my turn to help the community, and Couchsurfing is one way for me to do it. I expect nothing in return from people I host, just be yourself 🔆

Interests

I use to organize international road trips with 1930' cars. I am now mostly a pedestrian practicing long hikes.

I like to discover local wine producers, local traditional gastronomies, organic market gardenens, explore places where most of people don't go, settle down with the land, talk to people on my way ....

🌿 I discovered permaculture in Australia

• environment
• gardening
• hiking
• engineering
• science
• road trips
• urban exploration
• permaculture
• learning
• healthy lifestyle
• getting lost
• explore
• herbalism
• camino de santiago
• spiritual growth
• good food and wine

Music, Movies, and Books

Honestly, who care ?
But I guess I can share some of them so ...

BOOKS 📖
A. de Saint Exupery, M. Kundera, K. Gibran, R.-J. Ellory, C. Bukowski, M. Duras, R. Goddard, B.E. Ellis, M. Puzo, G. Orwell, K. Follet, U. Eco, S. Larson, T. Hayes, J. Dicker, D. Winslow, J. Littell, G. David Roberts, J. Verne, C. Darwin, etc., etc.

SERIES 📺
Homeland, Game of Thrones, House of Cards (UK!!), The Soprano, Rome (1st season), The Wire, Treme, Rick and Morty (the most beautiful and stupid discovery of my entire life), Boss, Breaking Bad, Hit and Miss, Master of None, Mr. Robot, Utopia, True Detective, Show me a Hero, Black Mirror, How Not to Live Your Life, etc.

MOVIES 👌 🎬 🎥
- Barry Lyndon (beautiful fatalism movie inspired by Candide, Voltaire. Prepare your blanckets, your HD TV and enjoy the great Franz Schubert soundtrack),
- The Sergio Leone saga : The good the bad the uggly, Once upon a time the revolution, Once upon a time in America (magistral last movie of his career)
- Mia madre (we all have a mother, sure you can cry)
- Almodovar filmography (deep, sad, hopefulness... probably accessible only for the sensitive or painful souls)
- Roma (just watch it)
- La grande bouffe (oh.. my.. g)
- Les tontons flingueurs (sorry, maybe only for a French public :D )
- Fritz Lang filmography (for the lovers of Art Déco and pre-war design, visionary and critics of his time)
- Quentin Dupieux filmography (the best description could be "absurd cinema", I don't know, nevermind each movie is a new surprise)
- and so much more.

MUSIC 🎼
No guideline. Sometime a 9th Dvořak Symphony, sometime electro, sometime a river...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Answer all this questions

Teach, Learn, Share

🍽 My friends say I am a good cook, so lets go for Crêpes, Ragouts, Patisseries, Civets, Tarte Tatin and others dainties !
Seriously, I can spend hours cooking. I would be glad to prepare and share a good meal, especialy some of my French specialities :)

🚜 I can repare almost everything on your bike, car, tractor or truck, and probably also your home.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cook "crêpes flambées" !

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Czech Republic, France