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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in French, Spanish; learning English, Italian
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Entrepreneur
  • No education listed
  • From Burgos
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To rid mondays of my life

ABOUT ME

I like laughing and talking, to listening stories from people I met. I'm always open to experience new adventures but I try to enjoy this quiet moments that life gives to humans ("you never now when you will have the opportunity to rest again" :-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sometimes I'm abroad for working, I'm affraid you wont find me in Burgos. I'm very busy with work and leisures offten, then I'm gonna be happy to share with you a drink, a coffe or just a walk in Burgos. The rest of time , my house is your house.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Since 2004 my sister opened the family house to "hospitality club" then Ruiz's family got into it. After that, Aude, the woman I lived with for a while got into CS and we open the house we share in Madrid to Couchsurfers. We had very good time with them: we went to concerts, we introduced them some of our friends, we cooked together, we went out: the usual things I use to do with friends you fell confortable :-)

Interests

Met my friends, Sociology, Met people, Running, Politics, Rugby, To learn languajes, Trekking, Writting fictions, Listening to music, Hitchhiking, History, Taking pictures, Watching movies, To make videos, Interviews, Writting social thinking.

  • concerts
  • running
  • drinking
  • clubbing
  • politics
  • movies
  • music
  • rugby
  • history
  • sociology
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

I love reading novels and comics but also social science research. Some of my favourite creators: Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez, Durrel, Milan Kundera, Mauro Entrialgo, Frederic Peeters, Moebius, Muñoz y Sampaio, Jacques Tardi, Hergé. My favourite comic caracters: John Constantine "Hellblazer" and Herminio BolaextrA "el periodista con tres huevos". My favourite novel character: the policeman from Saramago's "Seeing" (2004)
I cannot live without music. It's because of this I'm starting to learn how to play guitar (just in case electricity doesn't work :-) My favorite music is contemporary music but not "the too much comercial and easy tune.) I don't fell there's an style I prefer: I better says styles likes me depending on the moments.
But cinema and photography are my favorite things. My favourite photograpers: Robert Cappa and Lucia Puertas.
My top 20 movies: Oldboy, Amanece que no es poco, Walk the Line, Les vacances du Monsieur Hulot, The third man, Bladerunner, Dr Strangelove (or How I learned to love the bomb), La vitta è bella, The appartement, The party, Snatch, Pulp Fiction , Un prophet, La haine, Dogville, Wonderland, Princess Mononoke, El Verdugo, El milagro de P.Tinto, Life of Brian.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Yo qué se... Yesterday I gave 30 euro tip to pizza delivery boy by mistake. Is not incredible?

Teach, Learn, Share

To explain answers about History (as long as my knowledge allows).
To show my city and region while I tell the little things that happend along the time...

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, Denmark, France, Malta, Spain

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