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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Portuguese, Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Independant film producer (Editor, Cameraman, Director)
  • ABitur Germany, BA Media Arts UK
  • From Cairns, QUeensland, Australia
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Set up my life so I can travel whenever my feet get Itchy..

ABOUT ME

I've grown up in India, Australia and Germany, the son of traveling parents, I was instilled at an early age with a sense of wonder towards foreign cultures and landscapes. Moving around so much as a kid killed any chance of me developing a sense of patriotism for anywhere. On the contrary, I have been uprooted!! And now consider myself part of a cosmic intergelactic international family which consists of everyone who isn't a nasty person....
I make films.. I would like to be making more films but making money helping other people make films has been eating all my time recently. That's all about to change!! After a two year break from real traveling spent staring at a computer screen and taking life much to seriously is about to come to an end. it's time to hit the road once more on a quest to make my life as exciting as possible.

PHILOSOPHY

My life has the potential to be something amazing... So I won't waste sitting on my ass. Say Yes to the most outrageous option. Love everyone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Ive just joined people, be patient with me. I have an amazing sofa here in Berlin, but I'm hitting the road now. Once I get back the sofa is up for grabs any ol' time!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet!! San Francisco will be my first stop!

Interests

Dancing, The great outdoors, Cycling tours, Camping, Films, Reading, Writing, Capoeira, Music, Singing, Being silly.

  • writing
  • singing
  • dancing
  • capoeira
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • eating out
  • music
  • outdoor activities
  • cycling
  • camping
  • tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Werner Herzog, Trailer Park Boys, The mighty Boosh, Monty Python, David Linch, Tarentino, Rodrigues, Klaus Kinsky, Jack Nicholson, Harvy Keitel, Napoleon Dynamite, The Anchorman, Akira Kurusawa, Kusturica, Jimmy Purtill

I LOOOOOOVE IT!!!!

Dostoyewsky, Hemmingway, Roald Dahl, Ken Keasey, Bruce Chatwin, Biographies of great lives.

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One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've driven a jeep from Manali to Leh in the High himalayas, that is one of my reasons for wanting to cross tibet with a bicycle... (Which I am on my way to doing) the landscapes are unbelievably surreal and beautiful, like being on a differant planet. I've cycled from Paris to Barcelona and from Athens to Istanbul, both these trips changed my way of life and for the forseable future I am a bicycle nomad.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, India, Sweden, United Kingdom

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