WARNING!!! UPDATE
Unable to accept guests for an indefinite amount of time due to the current housing situation.

I'm a very open, cheerful person always up for a conversation about anything and nothing. While very responsible, I love improvisation and impulses. Short- and long-term goals are always changing with the main ambition of curing ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and opening either a food stall or a hostel.

Quotes I find close to my way of thinking:

A humble lasagna has brought more joy to mankind than all religions, ideologies and currencies combined.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

"Science is magic that works." Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

READ THIS!!! HOSTING-RELATED STUFF!!!

While I'm very open to hosting people of all nationalities, ages and ideological backgrounds, I do prefer the ones who actually READ MY PROFILE and HOME DESCRIPTION (you can find that between the "About" and "Photos" link) and make that clear in their couchrequests. I have hopefully helped you with some cheerful writing. If I find your request to be below the acceptable standard, you will be declined without an explanation. You can whine but I won't care.

As for now, I only have space for one person and I prefer shorter stays (less than 3 days).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

(cheese alert!!)

While I've met all sorts of amazing people in hostels etc., travelling for me is trying to find a genuine experience that you cannot get anywhere else. Having someone open the doors to his place, memories and ideas is in my opinion the epitome of such, and you don't even need to travel to do it by hosting people. Plus sharing is caring!! Doesn't matter if it's a couch, slice of pizza, a travel story or a free washing machine and a pinch of washing powder, it's the little things and the people you meet along the way that make an experience. I've only couchsurfed a couple of times because i'm relatively new and don't have many references (here's looking at all you guys who rejected me! :) , but i did love the experience, especially compared to some of the hostels I've stayed at.

Well, now that I've hosted 10 people, I believe an update is due :) So far, I've had only positive to really frickin' great holy cow wuhuuu positive experiences with hosting people which has only reenforced what I thought before and wrote above. I guess some psychoanalyst would find the joy you get from the short encounters and the progression from total strangers to close friends sharing a flat, stories, jibes and experiences worth a study...a pessimistic one might even call that replacing actual meaningful relationships with something instant, almost fake or forced. But I believe life in itself is mostly one big routine and anything breaking that is definitely worth the time and effort, especially if it's meant to make someone's travels that much more special. So from now on I believe I will use CS for all my travels, even if hostels are available. And just follow what Jim Morrison wrote:

"I will not go;
prefer a feast of friends
to the giant family"

Told you to watch out for cheesiness ;)

Interests

- TRAVELLING: breaking the everyday routine, gaining new experiences and opening my mind a little more while narrowing down what happiness is for me...there is just one activity that encompasses all that.

- COOKING: while food is necessary for life, it's trillion times and then some more exciting than breathing. Having previously worked in restaurant kitchens and as a sushi apprentice chef, I can definitely agree to that.

- MUSIC: anywhere, anytime, whether it's coming from my headphones while jogging, a wall of speakers at a concert or from a group of friends with an instrument each.

- OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES: hiking, climbing, cycling, kayaking, swimming...if it involves a forest, a mountain or an extensive patch of water, the odds are i'll be overjoyed about it;

- SCIENCE: whatever crazy concept you might think of, there is a good chance it has already been in nature for millions of years. Also a wonderful place where you need actual valid proof for your arguments to be taken seriously, something that is unfortunately getting less and less sexy...

- anything that helps me understand people, their motives, beliefs, how society works and why it doesn't;

• concerts
• cooking
• chess
• music
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• skiing
• hockey
• biology
• history
• languages
• neuroscience
• science
• sociology
• travel
• film
• conversation
• water sports
• the universe
• fantasy
• genetics
• guitars
• floorball
• making food
• hiking in the mountains
• talking food
• something food
• something else food
• more skiing

Music, Movies, and Books

Too much to write, so let's keep it short and systematic...

MUSIC: I play the guitar and piano so if any of those two are in plus some good vocals, there's a good chance i'll add it to my playlists. Otherwise my music is changing all the time and rewriting this every couple of months would be ardous. In general it's Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and swing for dancing and cooking, Dubioza Kolektiv for Balkan vibes, Union Jack for driving, Descendents and Radiohead for high school nostalgia and Thomas the Tank Engine theme song for laughs :)

FILMS (a pick of my favourites): Trainspotting, Wes Anderson filmography, Ne bom več luzerka! (amazing slovenian film, watch it!!), Captain Fantastic, Persepolis, Jafar Panahi's Taxi Tehran, Life of Brian, Slap Shot, The Commitments, Dawn Wall, Free Solo etc.

SERIES: Unrepentant anglophile (Doctor Who, Black Mirror, Sherlock, The IT Crowd, binge watching Big Fat Quiz of the Years etc.) with some New World stuff thrown in (Breaking Bad, Westworld, The Simpsons, House of Cards). Departures, Descending, Planet Earth for the travel itch and Anthony Bourdain for when I'm not hungry. Not a Rick and Morty fan to the amazement of many fellow natural scientists. Have watched 2 episodes of Love Island and survived.

BOOKS: I used to live in Middle Earth early in secondary school, then briefly moved to Westeros and i still love reading fantasy, but the throne goes to Kurt Vonnegut. He is the writer who best exemplifies my view of the world (which in turn was shaped quite a lot by his works obviously). I do read a lot and often and carry books with me to the most unusual of places. Books are just way too interesting to kill your imagination on the internet.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I don't consider it especially amazing, more something everyone should do, but anyway i'd go with helping out an asylum seeker from Syria settle in Ljubljana.

Teach, Learn, Share

I take hospitality seriously and i love to share everything i've got. I'm a big foodie and love cooking, so i would love to teach you something along those lines and share recipes, experiences, tastes. Trading languages is also awesome, i could teach you some universal slavic phrases and cyrillic script if you plan on continuing your travels east. Sharing my room are two guitars and a keyboard so jamming together or just a brief learning course can always be arranged. If you're interested in science, i can explain stuff about GMOs, science ethics, proteins, genetics, evolution, neurodegeneration and whatever else you wish with a friendly attitude and no brainwashing involved. Otherwise just talking is perfect, there is no topic not worth discussing!

What I Can Share with Hosts

A couch, a warm meal, a washing machine, spoilers about great places in Ljubljana and Slovenia in general, hiking tips, climbing gear, outdoor stuff or just a walk around the city.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Netherlands, Oman, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom