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  • 103 references 76 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish; learning Arabic, Italian, Persian (Farsi), Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Uyghur, Uighur
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Translator and Interpreter
  • By my family, my surroundings and myself
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About Me

Well-travelled, nature lover, underground freak, language freak, a bit of a house builder, quite hyperactive?
Respectfuf and understanding, trying to be able to change opinion, I like when people try to understand others and respect their values, ways of life, opinions and are open to discussion and sharing of experiences
I think people seek for the same things in life, but have different ways to do it!
I like new experiences, meet new kinds of people, I like to be surprised, I am often looking for whatever I will find, meeting friends I don't know yet.

One person's freedom ends where another's begin!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For me the point of Couchsurfing is not to make everybody become the same, thinking the same, acting the same and talking the same, but a means to widen our perspectives and enrich our cultures.
Any person has something interesting, and the hosting conditions don't matter much to me when I am traveling: a nice host, a floor and a roof do.

Interests

  • photography
  • dining
  • walking
  • partying
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • hiking
  • rock climbing
  • languages
  • hitchhiking
  • caving
  • urbex

Music, Movies, and Books

Livres:
100 años de soledad (Garcia Marquez)
Das Parfum (Patrick Suskind)
L'usage du monde (Nicolas Bouvier)
La bete humaine (Emile Zola)
L'homme qui plantait des arbres (Jean Giono)
Tristes Tropiques (Claude Levi-Strauss)
Milan Kundera
Comes
Joan Sfar
Ciro Alegria
Le petit prince !
...

Musique:
les Tetes Raides
Die Arzte
Edith Piaf
Keny Arkana
The Chemicals Brothers
Shantel
la cumbia peruana
Goran Bregovic...
Electro, Balkanbeats, drum'n'bass...

Films:
El laberinto del fauno
Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
Le Blob
Hayao Miyazaki
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Persepolis...

et d'autres: Hyeronimus Bosch, M. C. Escher......

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Get into the Machu Picchu at night when still closed
-Travel hitchhiking to Newfoundland in December
-Walk alone in the Amazon during 4 days
-Some simple things are amazing: share a discussion, a meal, a tea with different people met along the way.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macedonia, Mali, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Peru, Sudan, Switzerland, Turkey

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