Maybe, first : my name is Manuel. It's not possible to describe yourself objectively, is it? I like many things, i'm interested by almost everything, i try lots of things... It's too vague, just look at my interests, it's more relevant.

We're moving to Toulouse soon, with an extra bedroom so I hope we'll start hosting again ♫

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I traveled quite a lot with couchsurfing and have been hosted by really cool people in Budapest, Praha, Iceland, New York City, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Austria, Switzerland... and I've hosted people in Strasbourg and Paris as well :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been hosted by great people, it's always fascinating to meet so different interesting people from a lot of different countries ♫ Lots of them are still good friends

Interests

Birds, Music and Photography and Discovering the World
Arts, theater, dance, singing, painting, writing, literature, wild life, cooking, cinema, civilizations, history, walking, politics, moving, games (board and video)...
Well... i do like a lot of things.

• animals
• wildlife
• birds
• arts
• writing
• literature
• singing
• theater
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• running
• walking
• politics
• movies
• painting
• music
• cycling
• swimming
• history
• volunteering
• mountains
• trekking
• activism
• museums
• birdwatching

Music, Movies, and Books

As i've not really described myself, i will elaborate here.

I listen to music all the time. And i listen to many many things. I can put my favorite artists, put i like so many others... :
Emilie Autumn - Jónsi - Archive - AaRON - Emilie Simon - Zazie - Bjórk - Mansfield.tya - Barbara - Radiohead - Sigur Rós - Portishead - Cocorosie - Mickey 3D - Antony and the Johnsons - Camille - Múm - Joe Hisaishi - Claire Diterzi - A Perfect Circle - Anathema - Leonard Cohen - David Bowie - Noir Désir - Deep Forest - Led Zeppelin - Pink Floyd - Massive Attack ...

My favorite films often change. But i will try to write those i love most often :
Star Wars - Princess Mononoke - Nemo - Howl's moving castle - the Castle in the Sky - Spirited away - Les chansons d'amour (love songs) - Les Bien-Aimés - Brazil - J'ai tué ma mère (i killed my mother) - Persona - Mind Game - Why don't you play in Hell ? - Dancer in the Dark - Hercules - Anastasia - The Rocky horror Picture Show - Mulan - Le Roi et l'Oiseau - into the wild - Nosferatu - Persepolis - Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios - The Congress - Rashômon - All About Eve - Her - 120 battements par minute - Cabaret - Your name - ...

Series : le Coeur a ses Raisons - Adventure Time - Rick and Morty - Steven Universe - the Handmaid's Tale - Black Mirror - Battlestar Galactica - RuPaul's Drag Race...

About the books, it's easier. I read a lot, here are few books that really really caught my mind :
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Kafka on the Shore and other Murakami's books - Royal Assassin (Hobb) - les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos) - le Rouge et le Noir (Stendhal) - Ewilan (Bottero) - Lolita (Nabokov) - Emilie Autumn's Asylum - l'insoutenable légèreté de l'être (Kundera) - Cien Años de Soledad y El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Gabriel García Márquez) - Harry Potter - Forbidden Colors (Mishima) - His Dark Materials (Pullman) - les Fleurs du Mal (Baudelaire) - On the Road (Kerouac) - Les amours interdites (禁色) andLa Mer de la fertilité (豊饒の海) both from Yukio Mishima, and many other of his books - Los detectives salvajes (Roberto Bolaño ) - L'Œuvre au noir (Marguerite Yourcenar) and many others of her books -

For the mangas, i've read a lot of them as well in the past, here are my favorite ones : Pokemon Special - Death Note - Nausicaa - Nana - Paradise Kiss - Gokinjo - Love Hina - Negima

I don't know why we shouldn't also mention the videogames we love : Spyro 2 and 3 (PS1), StarWars Kotor 1 and 2, Pokémon, Zelda, Heroes of Might and Magic, Civilization III and V, Age of Mythology, Mariokart Double Dash and 8, Tetris...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Many things. A great amount of things in life could be considered as amazing. I've seen a ginormous rainbow during a wonderful sunset while swimming in a big river in the middle of the Amazonian Rainforest. Ouh yeah !
But being in the Andes is really fabulous as well. And seing Northern Lights in the sky of Reykjavik, was one of my numerous dreams.
Anyway, spending a year in South America is beyond fabulousness =D Seeing all those places, people, animals, landscapes i've always dreamt to see... ♫
Oh and i stopped eating terrestrial meat, which is a cool thing to do, obviously :) but I still eat milk related products and sometimes fish, which is not really a cool thing to do... but when travelling it's sometimes hard to find real vegetarian or vegan food (T_T)

Teach, Learn, Share

I got general knowledge in many areas as everybody does ♫ But i can teach you a lot about animals and more specifically Birds, for example. i can also explain the basis of photography.
But anyway people can always share, i suppose. If we meet we'll discover what connection can be made !
I want to learn everything !

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Peru

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