CURRENT MISSION

live!

ABOUT ME

nature + Arctic + independent travels = a bit of myself. Not exclusive though.

PHILOSOPHY

LEARNING BY DOING. Being very lazy sometimes and very active some other times...

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to host people where ever I can, especially when I'm in a remote area. Then I can offer something different to experiment to my fellow couchsurfers. I surf couches myself from time to time, depending on the destination or depending on the profile of the people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

one of the first member since I met Casey Fenton in Alaska in 2004 through hospitalityclub.org
Hosted and couchsurfed.
My best experiences were hosting couchsurfers north of the arctic circle and in a remote Kenyan village. And to be a guest in different context in the same country, e.g. sharing life with a Chinese student then with a Yoga teacher: it offers two very different windows to look at the society you are in.
Couchsurfing has been a blessing in Canada as well!!!

Interessen

Travelling, canoeing, back country skiing, exploring and explorers, peacefulness of the nature, landscapes, music, photo, Africa, everything above the Arctic circle, South Pole, psychology, history, economy, sometimes politic, chess, juggle, fire braising, challenges, geocaching...

• animals
• photography
• dining
• chess
• traveling
• juggling
• survival
• music
• fishing
• canoeing
• sailing
• skiing
• track and field
• teaching
• history
• psychology
• handycrafts
• northern lights

Musik, Filme und Bücher

I love to read in my tent when the weather isn't as good as I'd wish!

"The Story of B." from Daniel Quinn, "Ishmael" and looking forward to read "My Ishmael".

Liked a lot Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong. "Klondike" by Pierre Breton was awesome.

Usually read books written by explorers and adventures. And everything dealing with the arctic circle and above.

I've just discovered Sergio Kokis and I enjoyed "La Gare".

I like stories written by Jorn Riel.

Roald Amundsen is my HERO! :)

Movies: to me Emir KUSTURICA movies are just great!
I also like BURTON's movies a lot, and some less known movies like "the yellow dog from Mongolia" or "the story of the crying camel".
I really liked "The Kautokeino Rebellion" lately.

I enjoy reggae music, dub and I play myself bass guitar. And starting ukulele as well as kantele.
I totally enjoy Jazz, Funk, African Music, Ravi Shankar, mei tei sho, tiken jah fakoly, high tone, zenzile, rokia traore, luo traditional music, country music, etc. etc....

And I love Serbian and Tzigane music. Especially after drinking a bit ! YiHIiiIii !!!

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Paddled 1700 kms on the Mackenzie River, from Hay River to Inuvik in 7 weeks.
Paddled in an open canoe a flooded Wind river in the Yukon that turned out to be a 200km long rapid...
Sleep outside from time to time when the inside part of your nose gets frozen, once down to - 45 Celsius under the northern lights and the stars. Even though a reindeer skin helps, it's still a bit cold !
Flew over Alaska in a small airplane, visit the legendary Nome city and St Lawrence Island.

Lehren, lernen, teilen

can teach wilderness and survival skills, stories of giants, how to recognize animal tracks, fishing, juggling, forest -deep snow- skiing...

want to learn off-track kite skiing (actually ski-sailing), para-gliding, tales and other stories.

like to share traveling experiences and good good food.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Canada, Finland, France, Kenya

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