CURRENT MISSION

Write songs, drink beers.

ABOUT ME

Abstract:
30 year old guy playing guitar/singing in and indie pop band, working in the hospital and offering a mattress or couch (or both, if you're the needy type :) ) to travelers visiting the fine city of Arnhem.

Full text:
My name is Niels and I'm a 30year old guy living in the awesome city of Arnhem in the eastern part of the Netherlands. A few ago I found out about couchsurfing and the experiences so far have been awesome (life changing I might say). I guess this is the place to tell you a little more about myself, so here are the basics:
I work in the hospital in Arnhem as a nuclear medicine technologist, which isn't half as scary, but twice as cool as it sounds. In my free time I play in a band called Horse Fashion. I grew up in a small town called Sint-Oedenrode and I still go there quite often, since that's where our rehearsal room is (don't let it scare you off though, when you want to crash here during the weekends it's not a problem to stay here).
Since I joined couchsurfing a few years ago, I've hosted people from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. All experiences so far have been nothing but amazing. Wether it's just having an easy evening with some drinks and talks, parties in the city centre (oh god, let's never end up in de Buik again), or long hikes/bike rides through the National Parks close to Arnhem. All good fun.
Apart from offering my couch, I've been joining and organising some events, like monthly meetings and dinner parties (the bi-yearly pancake dinner at my place has become a tradition). I met a lot of great people through this website and hope people will continue to visit this beautiful part of the country. All the best!!!

-Niels

PHILOSOPHY

I bet I can jump that far.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting:
There's enough space here to host about 6 to 7 people, though most of the time it's not that busy around Arnhem. The most I've hosted at one time was 5 people and it was a lot of fun. There're 2 comfortable couches (as seen in the picture section), a spare room with a mattress and an inflatable mattress.

Events:
I organized quite a few dinner parties and drinking parties (I'd say I like the dinner parties best, but that's just because I never seem to remember the second half of the drinking parties). The CS community in Arnhem is really active as well and there's always something fun going on.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted:
July 11th 2011 - Nazariy - Ukraine
August 2nd 2011 - Barak and Zohar - Israel
August 5th 2011 - Laura - Germany
a lot in 2011 - Patricia!!!! - Germany
August 15-17 2001 - Allen!! - Montreal Canada
August 22-24 2011 - Jonatan - Sweden
August 22-24 2011 Hannes - Estonia
September 13-16 2011 - Dan & Lisa - Australia
September 15-16 2001 - Charly, Ruth & Tabea - Germany
Ocotber 2011 - Timo - USA
November 26-27 2011 - Stefan, Australia

I stopped listing it, but you can just check my references I guess, they're down there.

Attended:
Loads of events

Interests

I have tried to grow the perfect mustache several times, but have not yet mastered the art . I'm very interested in learning more about this.

• arts
• singing
• folklore
• fashion
• beer
• partying
• drinking
• guitar
• indie pop
• cycling
• hiking
• medicine
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
last.fm knows best :), but if you want a short summary: the Decemberists, the Weakerthans, Bright Eyes, Slow Club, Fanfarlo, the Cure, the Mountain Goats, etc etc
Books:
Goodreads.com knows best, but here's a summary again:
The catcher in the rye (not very original you say?), the selected works of T.S. Spivet, Edgar Alan Poe's works, 1984, etc etc
Movies: Into the wild, rambo, any movie with explosions.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I made it home in time before it started to rain.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach you:
Basic guitar chords
The famous 2-step-t-shirt-folding-technique

I'd love to learn:
Anything I can wrap my head around (I don't mean eating-wise, I can eat, I'm a natural at that)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Netherlands

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