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Overview

  • 18 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Catalan, Valencian, English, Spanish; learning Czech
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Travel consultant
  • Master in Forestry
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

"Travelling is the only thing that you pay and makes you richer"

I am a extrovert and friendly person. I like to talk and discover different people. One of my passions is to cook. I can cook very nice typical Valencian food such as Paella and Fideua. I enjoy with the environment and nature and like so much to hike. I am forest engineer studying for Master in forest management. I made Erasmus in Brno (Czech Republic) and I studied in Lleida (Catalonia), Lisbon (Portugal) and Trabzon (Turkey) as Erasmus Mundus student.

While I was studying in Lleida, I met Ilona. Our first kiss was in a ginkana full mud . I felt in love with her rapidly and we travelled together across the Iberian Peninsula by hitch hiking, Bla bla car and couchsurfing.

To meet Ilona and to travel with her was the second most beautiful experience in my life. The first one was to see how our daughter Sofie born. Ilona decided she wanted a natural givingbirth and I helped her to accomplish her dream. Sofie was born in an intimate atmosphere, in Ilona's room.

Sophie is very active and she likes to explore. As my parents and Ilona's ones did not give us the pleasure to travel, we are both interested in visiting new places, meeting new people and having new experiences. Of course, Sofie she will come with us wherever we go.

In our free time, we love to go to hike. Our passion are the forest, we cannot be more than 2 weeks without being in the forest. As we live in the Czech Republic, it is easy. We visited the majority of the Natural parks in Czechia.

After a brief period of 1 year since Sofinka have born, we were not visiting that much foreign countries. Only Slovakia and my country, Spain. Now, our plan is to travel as much as possible. I would love to not to be limited by my vacation time in order to have more time to visit the most of the European countries we can. In the nearly future we are planning to go to another continent, maybe Asia, maybe America ... who knows.

For the 2017 we are planning to visit the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, France, Finland, Estonia, Sweden.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The first time I heard about Couchsurfing was when Ilona and me went to Girona (Spain), a really beautiful city where some of the scenes in the film "Perfum, The history of a murderer" were filmed. I could not beleave that my girlfriend had arranged a night in a house, with an extrange person who only knew about us through this website.
It was amazing, he even gave us the keys of his appartment so, we could go and come whenever we wanted. I found such experience so warm, so exciting, that I was feeling like if a new person was growing inside me after. I needed more, we used in our travel together and when I had the opportunity and the conditions, my couch was opened.

Interests

Nature, Arquitecture, Cook, Valencia Football Club,

  • photography
  • environment
  • dining
  • cooking
  • hiking
  • soccer
  • engineering
  • study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

Every music had its time in my life. Rock, techno, flamenco ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went from Valencia to Istambul with interrail.
I have been in the Sahara desert.
I kissed my girlfriend in a mud swimmingpool ginkana for the first time.
I hichhiked with my girlfriend arround the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to cook original paella, environmental aspects.
I want to learn about culture, languages, forests,

What I Can Share with Hosts

My trip stories, my cook skills, talk a lot, I really love to talk.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Portugal, Spain, Turkey

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