CURRENT MISSION

Visiting for the first time NY in October with our 6 years old son!!

Working on a personnal art project about mass migration between Switzerland and New York between the years 1880 and 1910...

Being grateful and having fun in everyday life!

ABOUT US

We are both of us visual artists (Katherine : video, performance, photography and Martin: sculpture, 3D installation, photography) and we are happy parents of an amazing, smart and sporty 5 year old boy!

PHILOSOPHY

Don't worry about a thing... 'cause every little thing gonna be alright...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We host and surf when we have time!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We had so many incredible good times with hosts and guests!!! We met beautiful people from all around the world!

We hosted
Alex from Brittany, France
Marcin from Poland
Koba and Ryoko from Japan
Freda Cheung from Hong Kong
Lee from Australia
Geny from Canada
Matthias from Sweden
Kevin from NY

In 2010 we surfed in...
Lisbon Miguel
Porto Fernando
Povoa de Varzim Sofia
Aveiro Elsa
Obidos Zita
Basel Philipp
Bergamo Antonio
Locarno Joel

In 2009 we surfed in...
Lisbon João
Lisbon Margarida
Faro Ralph and Veronika

Martin surfed in Paris...
Claire
Leroy and Anne
Aurélie and Cédric

Katherine surfed around Scotland in 2009...
Glasgow Adrian
Oban Leo
Edinburgh Peter and Rob
Prestwick Sara

Katherine surfed in Morocco
Zagora Safouane

visited 28 states (12.4%)Create your own visited map of The World

Interests

We are both visual artists and we are interested in so many different things next to contemporary art, photography, performance art... Difficult to make a list :-)))

Enjoying the present moment, wherever we are...

• arts
• singing
• contemporary art
• photography
• dancing
• indian food
• japanese food
• yoga
• meditation
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• skiing
• swimming
• languages
• mountains
• nature
• performance art
• waterfalls
• learning new things
• sushi
• law of attraction
• seaside
• guitars
• ...
• campfires
• sunsets
• mountain bike
• thai food
• didgeridoo
• trying new things
• having fun
• energy healing

Music, Movies, and Books

We love all sorts of music...

Kath: especially world music (I love : Habib Koité, Ali Farka Toure, Cheikh Lô, Ismaël Lô, Toumani Diabaté, Tinarewen...) but also Jazz, Drum'n'Bass, chill out...

Martin : Reggae, Ragga, Soul, Drum'n'Bass, jazz... (Martin plays the guitar and sings his own compostions :-)))

We love british Comedy!

But also movies distributed by "Trigon Film" (www.trigon-film.ch/en/) which are Movies from South America, Africa, Asia and East Europe.

Or movies directed by:
Emir Kusturica, Jim Jarmush, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, The Coen Brothers, Cédric Klapisch, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Luc Besson, Fellini, Charlie Chaplin, Hitchcock...

Books: Too many!!

Martin is a book collector! He collects all sorts of books: Art books, novels, biographies but also anything to do with mathematics, new technology or science...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Our entire life is amazing!! :-)))

Teach, Learn, Share

We d'like to share good times, learn about different cultures, learn new languages, share some stories about travelling and other life experiences ...

What I Can Share with Hosts

We are relaxed and easy-going...

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Zambia

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