CURRENT MISSION: Improvisation ! Life is like a huge jam session...

ABOUT ME: Generally energic, curious about new things and new people, communicative... Trying to enjoy the instant in different ways (it could be having party, reading a book, doing yoga, listening music...). I like people, especially those people whose eyes shine when they talk about their passions!

PHILOSOPHY: Feeling!

El dí­a que pases sin amor
no merece que el sol lo ilumine
ni que la luna le traiga consuelo.
Khayyam

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Hosting, surfing, sharing! I think it's a way of life.

Interests

Cooking, reading, hiking.
Cuisine, littérature et nature.

... et beaucoup d'autres choses, les méthodes agricoles traditionnelles, la (bonne) musique, la politique, les langues, le mysticisme, la mer agitée, la couture, l'amour, les vieilles maisons en pierre, le dessin, les bonnes-sœurs à bicyclette, le cinéma (pas trop récent voire carrément ancien), les plantes, la poésie, le primitivisme, la révolution, les barbes (et autres poils), le théâtre, le bon vin, le Moyen-Âge, les strabismes divergents, les légumes du jardin, les ptits nenfants, les danses folkloriques, les promenades à vélo, les mythes, les remèdes de grands-mères, les contes d'antan, les ruisseaux glacés de montagne, les feux de cheminée, feux de poêle, feux de camp, les poèmes-incendies, les lucioles qui volent dans la nuit tropicale, le silence, l'herbe gelée qui craque sous les pieds, un long reflet dans l'eau...

• cooking
• reading
• hiking
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

Jazz/Blues/Soul (Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Otis Reding), Balkan Music, some classic French music (Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré), rap from different countries (Ceza, Kenny Arkana, Ana Tijoux, Cypress Hill, Orishas, Subcarpati), ethnic electro (Nicola Cruz, Oi va voi), afrobeat (Fela Kuti and followers), ranchera, son jarocho, salsa, champeta...

I read principally poetry (Artaud, Michaux, Pansaers, Fondane, of course Baudelaire, Khayyam, Rumi, Juarroz, Gorostiza), some essays about litterature, philosophy or politics (Camus, Nietszche) and Latin-American litterature (Borges, Cortazar, Miguel Angel Asturias...).

Cinéma chanbara (Kurosawa), ciné Nouvelle Vague (Godart), contemplative and mystical directors as Tarkovski, Chris Marker, Pasolini, Buñuel, Bergman, Satiajit Ray, and directors that get deep into the psychologies of the charachters as Fassbinder, Cassavetes, Orson Welles, Jim Jarmusch...
Generally I prefer old cinema than modern. I love old black and white movies as Freaks (Tod Browning), Soy Cuba, Eisenstein's films... In modern cinema, I like the Cohen Brothers (No country for old men), some of Almodovar, Fight Club, Winter sleep, Oldboy, Parasite...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I think the facts are secondary, the important is how intense you feel it.
But I remember that visiting East-Turkey and Georgia by hitch-hiking was a great experience.
Also climbing El Iztaccihuatl (a mountain in Mexico) by night was incredible. Actually, Mexico has been an extraordinary experience by itself.
And dancing into a comparsa in the Carnaval de Barranquilla (Colombia) changed my life for ever.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Share good moments!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Georgia, Germany, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, France, Mexico, Morocco, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey

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