Former IT business consultant that took a sabbatical including volunteering around France🍷 and Spain🌴 and exploring ‘the new economy’ as digital nomad👨🏻‍💻 in Valencia🦇.

Things I've done include revamping dining areas⚒️ and chopping wood🪓 in the South of France, mowing brambles with a view on 'Mallos Riglos' (Aragon), volunteering at Wakana Reunion Festival🕺🏻(Cadiz) and harvesting olives🫒 and reconstructing an acequia💦 (ancient old water way) with concrete in La Alpujarra. [check @compielaetion on Insta for more]

Since then I’ve returned to The Netherlands to see how this country is making the transition🔀 as well as further exploring more future-proof and humane ways of living and organizing society.

I’m keen to find a place in a housing cooperative🏘️ and/or community and contribute to reviving these neglected human values. In addition, I’m interested in permaculture🌱 and ecological building🛖.

I get energy from really connecting🔗 with people. Not the basic, superficial talks about the weather or keeping up appearance but really talking about what drives you in life⚡, your struggles😧, things you care❤️ about/have learnt/want to learn🧠.

Apparently (as people told me) I am openhearted💕, sharing a lot of my own experiences, insights, things I like 🎁 etc. and as a result of that people feel at ease with me to share their stories🔁. Which is of course what I am curious about! 😃

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

"A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles." - Tim Cahill

Going beyond the traveler's bubble and get a peek into how living in other places is.

Couchsurfing has facilitated two amazing hitchhike trips that changed my view on life. I give what I can to the people that host me and aim to host myself in the future when I have found a more permanent location.

Interessi

• sports
• mountain biking
• linguistics
• sustainability
• reading books
• craft beer
• museums
• cultural exchange
• campfires
• escape rooms
• hills
• new economy

Musica, film e libri

Eye-opener books: The Good Ancestor, Origin, The curious incident of the dog in the night time, Leaders Eat Last, Who moved my cheese?, The Kindly Ones, A Song of Ice and Fire, Doughnut Economics, The Infinite Game, Sacred Economics, Corporate Rebels, Betekeniseconomie (Purpose Economy), Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, The Economics of Arrival, In gesprek met je ouders (Talking with your parents), Embrace the chaos, Sherlock Holmes, The power of now, Thrive: Fundamentals for a new economy, Invisible Hand? How Market Economies Rise and Fall since 500 AD

Movies/Series: The Kindness Diaries, Into the wild, The curious case of Benjamin Button, Roadtrip, Imitation Game, The fundamentals of caring, Django Unchained, Sherlock, Suits, HIMYM, Papillon, Peaky Blinders, The Beautiful Green (La Belle Verte); Zeitgeist

Favorite show of all time: QI - Quite Interesting

Music: Lots of different music including rock, house, techno, classical. Depends mostly on what I am doing.

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

Acknowledging and learning how to handle fear through hitchhiking and Couchsurfing

Following my own curiosity to be able to see through the veil of Western indoctrination

Insegna, impara, condividi

I open to almost everything and I wish to learn a lot. In return, I can teach you an Asian way of folding t-shirts, introduce you to materials that provide an opposite view for you to explore. Also, I am quite a problem solver/organizer so feel free to ask me for help. Last but not least, I can share my experience in the kitchen. I am learning - through an online course - how to cook full-fledged vegan dishes that do have sufficient proteins.

Cosa posso offrire ai padroni di casa

- Adventure!
- (Travel) Stories
- Jokes
- A game to get to know each other (even better)
- Cooking together
- Combining food with beverages (this is called food-pairing and I like to do this with a beer and open to learn to do this with wine)
- The Offers and Needs Market - offersandneeds.com
- A guide to interview your parents on their walk of life because in order to know where you are going, you have to understand where you came from...

Paesi che ho visitato

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

Paesi in cui ho vissuto

France, Netherlands, Spain