After having studied Art in Bordeaux, I worked as a webdesigner for a small company. Being able to work from a distance, I took my computer and suitcase to Berlin for a while and then to Paris. This was comfortable but unfortunately I was bored with my job.

So I took the step to quit it after 6 years and took a year off in order to discover the world ! of course not the whole wide world in one year but more than I could hope.
I lived adventures, met lots of people, saw fantastic places, tasted delicious food, weird food, was a little sick (...), I took the time to feel the atmospheres, to understand the countries visited, to learn a few words in their language, to read and to draw...

During my trip I wwoofed, volunteered, scubadived, learned spanish and of course COUCHSURFed ! :p
What's more, I brought home 7 "carnets de voyage" (art travel diaries) and filled in a blog which are full of souvenirs.

Curious about many things, I like to share my experience. I am sometimes super sociable and others quite solitary. So far I've only had good experiences with CouchSurfing :)) May it continue!!!

In my wee flat in Bordeaux, I have hosted a few very nice people : from Germany, Portugal, Spain and Ireland. It was nice to share with them a bit of our paths. It widens one's horizon when one comes to meet a traveller from elsewhere. It's like an opening of light and possibilities in one's routine.

I will be travelling in Hawaï from january 20th to february 28th.

PHILOSOPHY
«Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux» Marcel Proust

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I tell people I meet what a wonderful concept it is.

I have been hosted by 18 awesome people in 2011-2012 in different parts of the world : India, China, San Francisco, Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Brazil !

In my one room appartment in Bordeaux, in 2014, I have hosted Wiebke from Germany, Cristina and Andrew from Ireland, Imbar from Spain and Ines from Portugal.

Hosted a few persons in 2010: Mickael from Vienna with whom I visited the Catacombes, Judita and Joe from Israel with whom we did one of the parisian Nuits blanches, Linda from Copenhague who cooked a delicious meal, Petr from Russia and Mike from USA...

Interests

drawing, travelling, pilosophy, food, music, comic books...

• arts
• writing
• books
• dining
• cooking
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• drawing
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

movies : Little Miss Sunshine, Sugar man, Into the wild, Babel, Chat noir Chat blanc, Dead man, Batman 2, Edward Scissor Hands, Room with a view, La Citee de la Peur
series : Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, The Wire, HIMYM
music : Arcade Fire, Hot Chip, Lou Reed, Radiohead, Lhasa, Angus & Julia Stone, Kings of Convenience
Comics : Le chat du Rhabbin, Persepolis, Portugal, Come Prima
Books : The Catcher in the Rye, On the road, In cold blood, Case histories, La Vie devant soi, Shantaram, Eat Pray Love

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travel around the world is the most amazing thing I've EVER done :)))
I recently flew to Nepal for a week, as a volonteer for a NGO,
In Chiapas, Mexico, the atmosphere in the church of San Juan Chamula was simply a-ma-zing, highly spiritual, magical, crazy,
The Machu Picchu,
Working for a hostel in Argentina,
Visiting brazilian friend in Rio whom I met in Xian in China,
In California, in a beautiful location in the Yosemite natural parc, I did a 10 day meditation course. No talking, no reading, no writing and... 10 hours of meditation per day.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you english and french, drawing & cooking.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany

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