CURRENT MISSION

Not letting distance be a problem for keeping in touch. And parachute.

ABOUT ME

I'm smily. Independant. A positive person. I hate to be depressed. I believe people are nice, until proof of the opposite. I love travelling, had the chance to start moving around with my parents years ago, for their jobs... and got addicted to it.

PHILOSOPHY

On the road again!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've started with couchsurfing when the project was all new, just a couple of years of existence: a 5 days trip in Macedonia, with a stop in Thessalonik. (Honestly, I first didn't really know if I was doing the right thing, at 8pm in a deserted bus station, waiting for my host...!)
Then 3 different couchsurfers in 3 different towns, and, in different ways, they all 3 of them made me discover a new way of travelling. Not following always the guidebook paragraphs, but sharing a pizza with other PeaceCorp volunteers, having free shots on a boat in the port of Thessalonik, missing some "highlights" because you overslept after an improvised party night, having my private tourguide in Skopje because my host had taken the day off, and eating till explosion the meal his mom had prepared for me. THEY did my trip.

I wasn't able 'till now to actually host at my place, and have mostly been using the project as a guest or traveller, for meeting new people. I try to bring them slices of my own culture, language, gastronomy. To be a good guest, and to learn always more from others.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted in Greece and FYROM - Hosted in BKK, and also travelled with my host and other CSers - CS meetings in BKK and PP - Tried to organize a trek in Colombia with a CSer but we finally couldn't make it - And a bunch of informal couchsurfing experiences with friends, and friends' friends all around France, and all around Europe, if that counts...

Interests

Being on the road, realising I'm going still further than where I was the day before;
Learning languages;
Drink (liters of) loose tea;
Hiking and trekking in the Pyreneas;
Partying; Hanging out by the Garonne for apero time;
Cooking what's in my mind;
And eating! any type of food, and even more new and/or original and/or weird dishes (not too weird though... Fertilized eggs in Cambodia were too weird for me...!);
Sleeping...;
Listening to live piano music;
Listening to any kind of music;
Hiking and trekking in the Alps;
Visiting new places, either around the world or just next to my home;
Chosing those places among the not yet too touristic places that still exist around the world. Feeling therefore more privileged to be one of the "few" that have been there;
Hiking and trekking, any mountains actually;
Sitting on the balcony of my family house in Savoie, and stay there looking at the lake and the mountains behind;
Buying earings; and wearing them;
Reading;
Dancing;
Taking the train;
Taking pictures;
Skiing;
Sunny days... :-)

• culture
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• marathon
• running
• partying
• drinking
• boating
• reading
• traveling
• music
• piano
• hiking
• skiing
• paragliding
• languages
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking the Ritak'uwa Blanco in Colombia, (almost...) to the 5330 meters high top.

Visiting the Preah Vihear temple, in Cambodia, surrounded by 15 years old soldiers, because of the (still going on) conflict between Thailand and Cambodia for the belonging of this Unesco classified temple.
And the sunset moment on top of the cliff, watching the countryside below, soothed by the music played by those same young soldiers, far far away from any armed conflict...

Visiting the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain. Lace-like walls in the Palacios Nazaries, and the snow coverred Sierra Nevada behind. Paecefull despite of the crowd, stone and water, amazingly beautiful.

Paragliding on a sunny day, with the MontBlanc visible there away at the end of the valley.

Getting my driving licence at 17 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, basically where the bigger car earns the right of way (my parents had a big car!) 26 lessons where still necessary when I came back to France for getting the French one...!

Crossing Corsica by foot north to south, in 13 days, on the GR20.

Running a Marathon the year of my 30th birthday... and finishing it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mexico, Romania, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, France, Romania, Spain, United States