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Overview

  • 4 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Polish
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • MSc Student
  • Católica Lisbon SBE & Bocconi Uni; Previously: Cracow...
  • From Porto, Porto District, Portugal
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Travel and meet people all around the world

ABOUT ME

Sociable and friendly.
Currently I'm taking a Master Degree in Lisbon.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have an old account, that I created when I saw in TV a report about couchsurfing. I found it interesting, and decided to create an account.

Interests

friends, family, travelling, music, meet new people, sports (football/soccer, basketball), partying, drinking (moderatly, of course), history, politics, economics, summer festivals, cinema..., are some of my interests.

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: A good drama, thriller or even a comedy or romance.
The Godfather, Forrest Gump, Shooting Dogs, Life is Beautiful, Into the Wild, The Sting,...

SERIES: Also a big fan.
Peaky Blinders, Narcos, Mr Robot are my fav. Also liked a lot Lost

MUSIC: love it, and like lot of types, rock, electronic, indie, pop, alternative, etc.
Beach House, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Foals, Bon Iver, Black Lips, Sigur Rós, Queens of the Stone Age, Caribou, Gorillaz, Death From Above 1969, Bob Dylan, Blur, Lykke Li, Pulp, Franz Ferdinand, Tallest Man on Earth, Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, Strokes, Bomba Estero, Acrade fire, James Blake, XX,...

BOOKS: I don't read that much. But I like it, and when I have time I try to do it.
José Saramago, J.R. dos Santos, Somerset Maugham, Gabrial Garcia Marquez,...
A book that marked me was "The Razor's Edge".

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- USA coast to coast (round trip) with my family.
- Travelling by car all around Europe (from Portugal to Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland,...).
- Under 15 Portuguese basketball champion (with FC Porto).
- Went to the Tomatina (Valencia), Fringe festival (Edinburgh), Fetes de Bayonne (French Basque country).
- Erasmus in Kraków (Poland)
- Back packed with 2 friends for almost 2 months around Central/Eastern Europe
- Roadtrip from Porto to Istanbul and back to Portugal
- Volunteered as an english teacher in an unprivileged neighboorhood of Bogotá.
- Backpacked for 2 months through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, France, Poland, Portugal

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