Daniel Jelinek's Photo

Unverified Profile

  • Payment not verified
  • Phone verified
  • Government ID not verified

Maybe Accepting Guests

  • Last login about 1 year ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Daniel’s full profile.

Overview

  • 23 references 14 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish, Russian; learning Arabic, English, Spanish
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Aircraft Pilot in spe
  • studying aviation and cosmonautics
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 100% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it

ABOUT ME

this is all about my life i think: https://www.instagram.com/lelhuapa/

I am trying live life to the fullest. I am student at Polish Air Force Academy.
I love flying and all bound up with aviation. Travelling, meeting people, experience everything what's new is my deeply passion.

i've visited only 63 countries till now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Always try to help surfers and really apriciate surfing. My favorite way of travelling !

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted few times in Poland, and also surfed a little bit. Hope to get more and more expirience.

Interests

I love snowboarding, skiing, windsurfing, swimming, Also i am flying on my aircraft and gliding.

Playing on drums and piano. I enjoy meeting new people and sightseeing new places.

Music, Movies, and Books

Films:
The Dark Knight, Madagascar 2, The Blues Brothers, Pulp Fiction, Black Hawk Down, Forest Gump.
Music:
all classic music
Books:
Bible, The Portrait of Dorian Gray

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

First solo flight like a pilot, i was 17 years old, it was amazing and first step to became a pilot. I would love to say that i saw the northern lights, but i did not, i still waiting for it. EDIT: did, already ! Worth to wait.
http://flightdiary.net/mkbewe

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to share all my knowlage. All about aviation, maths, physics, music and any sports I practice.

1. Avoid museums. This might seem to be absurd advice, but let’s just think about it a little: if you are in a foreign city, isn’t it far more interesting to go in search of the present than of the past? It’s just that people feel obliged to go to museums because they learned as children that travelling was about seeking out that kind of culture. Obviously museums are important, but they require time and objectivity – you need to know what you want to see there, otherwise you will leave with a sense of having seen a few really fundamental things, except that you can’t remember what they were.

2. Hang out in bars. Bars are the places where life in the city reveals itself, not in museums. By bars I don’t mean nightclubs, but the places where ordinary people go, have a drink, ponder the weather, and are always ready for a chat. Buy a newspaper and enjoy the ebb and flow of people. If someone strikes up a conversation, however silly, join in: you cannot judge the beauty of a particular path just by looking at the gate.

3. Be open. The best tour guide is someone who lives in the place, knows everything about it, is proud of his or her city, but does not work for any agency. Go out into the street, choose the person you want to talk to, and ask them something (Where is the cathedral? Where is the post office?). If nothing comes of it, try someone else – I guarantee that at the end of the day you will have found yourself an excellent companion.

4. Try to travel alone or – if you are married – with your spouse. It will be harder work, no one will be there taking care of you, but only in this way can you truly leave your own country behind. Traveling with a group is a way of being in a foreign country while speaking your mother tongue, doing whatever the leader of the flock tells you to do, and taking more interest in group gossip than in the place you are visiting.

5. Don’t compare. Don’t compare anything – prices, standards of hygiene, quality of life, means of transport, nothing! You are not traveling in order to prove that you have a better life than other people – your aim is to find out how other people live, what they can teach you, how they deal with reality and with the extraordinary.

6. Understand that everyone understands you. Even if you don’t speak the language, don’t be afraid: I’ve been in lots of places where I could not communicate with words at all, and I always found support, guidance, useful advice, and even girlfriends. Some people think that if they travel alone, they will set off down the street and be lost for ever. Just make sure you have the hotel card in your pocket and – if the worst comes to the worst – flag down a taxi and show the card to the driver.

7. Don’t buy too much. Spend your money on things you won’t need to carry: tickets to a good play, restaurants, trips. Nowadays, with the global economy and the Internet, you can buy anything you want without having to pay excess baggage.

8. Don’t try to see the world in a month. It is far better to stay in a city for four or five days than to visit five cities in a week. A city is like a capricious woman: she takes time to be seduced and to reveal herself completely.

9. A journey is an adventure. Henry Miller used to say that it is far more important to discover a church that no one else has ever heard of than to go to Rome and feel obliged to visit the Sistine Chapel with two hundred thousand other tourists bellowing in your ear. By all means go to the Sistine Chapel, but wander the streets too, explore alleyways, experience the freedom of looking for something – quite what you don’t know – but which, if you find it, will – you can be sure – change your life.

Paolo Coelho

What I Can Share with Hosts

My wide spectrum of eruditism

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, United Kingdom

Old School Badges

  • 1 Vouch

Join Couchsurfing to see Daniel’s full profile.

My Groups