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Overview

  • 2 references
  • Fluent in Catalan, Valencian, French, Sign Language - International, Spanish; learning Afrikaans, English, Portuguese
  • 48, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • salesperson (that was my last job in Paris)
  • BA, Master in law translation
  • From Paris - Barcelona
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Enjoying what life has to offer me...

ABOUT ME

33 year old young professional committed in a 7 year long-lasting relationship with my boyfriend. Bicultural myself, I consider myself both spanish & french, as I was born in Spain and grew up in Paris before living for 5 years in Barcelona. I went back to Paris in 2004, and I'm now enjoying some time off in Las Palmas Canary Islands capital, where we've been living for more than 4 months, and up for another 3 months or so.

Definetely into travelling, learning languages & culture vulture myself.

PHILOSOPHY

to be open minded and never judge your fellow.
learning more and more more and more and more... whatever the subject.... (I must admit, I'm a languages freak)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well travelled, I just want to travel more, know other cultures, meet new people & make friends, learn new languanges (I can say I'm a freak when it comes to learn languages). I just want to travel round the world and know as many people as I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm totally new in it, either as a couchsurfer myself or as a host...

Interests

Music, Literature (Haruki Murakami is one of my favourites'), Learning Languages (I' m currently learning Afrikaans and Welsh), Movies, Eating out and cooking, Outdoors

  • culture
  • books
  • literature
  • cooking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • eating out
  • music
  • outdoor activities
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Haruki Murakami, Julio Cortázar, Contemporary Australian & French Canadian Literature as for my book tastes.
Regarding music, here are my tastes :British & US Indie Classics like Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pavement, Ride, Yo la tengo etc.
Other stuff like Fangoria, Astrud, Antònia Font, Hidrogenesse spanish bands. Belgium band Vive la Fête as well as other more commercial stuff (as long as you can dance on it)
Cinema : Wong Kar Wai's flicks are great... Almodóvar movies are classicals.,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Having seen wide penguins in Phillip Islands coming back from the sea at nite feeding their chicks (VIC, Australia). Wide kangaroos hopping & skipping around in australian bush.

Teach, Learn, Share

language teaching as well as learning. share hobbies, music stuff, books etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Spain

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