CURRENT MISSION

Explorer the southern part of Africa

ABOUT ME

well what should i tell you?
I am married to Maria for more than 25 years, incredible how all those years have gone by so fast. We have two grown up kids and live in the countryside. Working fulltime leaves me a globetrotter of small steps.

PHILOSOPHY

We are all crew members of the same spaceship earth so its a good idea to get along fine. A good basis for that is to learn from each other by meeting. Tolerance and openness are the most important ingrediances for a start.

To cut a long message short:
Don't panic!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

sharing experiences and learn from eachother

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

some with couchsurfing community so far:
met Monica Clare in Sciaccia Sicily (Sep 2009)

Surfed with two families in China (Guilin and Shanghai) April 2010
March 2011 Josie in Melbourne, Roberta in Adelaide Debbie in Brisbane
See below
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I also have several years of predominantly good experiences with hospitality club as guest and host.

I had hosts in Lithuania, latvia, Finland, Russia,Poland, Italy and China

so far I've met only very friendly and helping people. My first impression is, that this will be the same with the couchsurfing community

Interests

travelling, reading, sports (soccer, skiing, climbing, chess, Go (beginners level)...) philosophy, religion (any), astronomy

• clubbing
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• skiing
• sports
• rock climbing
• soccer
• swimming
• astronomy
• religion
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies/books I like:
A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Forrest gump, lord of the rings,
homo faber, shakespears plays, La vita est bella, Sidharta (Herman Hesse), Die fabelhafte Welt der Amelie, Before sunrise, ...

Massey lectures:
A short history of progress (Ronald Wright)
Wayfinders
Debt (Margret Atwood)

Rock and pop
from the Beatles, Rolling stones, the who....
to supertramp, the eagles, kansas, sting, ....
to greenday, pink, red hot chilly peppers ...
nelly furtado, shakira, Katy Melua ...
many more

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

snow shoeing in fresh powder snow on new years eve to a mountain top and watch the fire works down in the valley

feel the warmth of the first sunrays in the morning on your face after a cold night in the desert.

swimming in the dead sea (it's so much fun)

the white nights of St Petersburg

recently: swimming in crystal clear water of lake McKenzey on Fraser Island, Australia

making a somersault down the dunes near 90mile-beach in New Zealand

sunset on Mount Fuji

Teach, Learn, Share

like to share and exchange stories of travels

visited 69 states (33,5%)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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