I prefer only to host if there is a specific reason, not just a cheap/free/convenient ho(s)tel.
Not very active here anymore, too... so better find me on fcbk (only one with that specific spelling) or by email koenthiry(at)hotmail.com

CURRENT MISSION

enjoy life, learn and hope to leave things behind better than when you find them

ABOUT ME

mmm... difficult to tell. very openminded, curious, open, interested in life and people etc etc.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to take life as it comes...
but 'going with the flow' is not always as easy as it should be.

doing a lot of personal growth and healing these days.
wondering how to escape the system (the capitalistic 40 hr work week that only seems to benefit the psychopaths at the top) but still have enough time and money to travel and do the things i like.

an anarchist in mind, a hippie in heart, and highly sensitive cells all around

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

people are welcome at my place, and i hope i'm welcome at theirs. Or meeting people throughout the CS idea, is also very interesting...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Lisboa, Koln, Istanbul, Argentina, Montevideo, Warszaw, Madrid, Vienna, New Delhi, Umphang, Vientiane, Ho Chi Minh city, Kunming, Dali, Shanghai, Tokyo, Bali, Kuala Lumpur, Barcelona, Milano...
Almost everywhere I have met people that made these places really unique.

Interests

Music, Art, Film, Literature, Spirituality, Philosophy, People,...
Life, the world and what happens to it, etc etc.
How to live from the heart, a good and interesting life for yourself and others, in a world that seems so over obsessed with the mind

• arts
• writing
• literature
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• walking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• rock climbing
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Chaplin, Cassavetes, Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Kubrick, Godard, Kurosawa, Fellini, Herzog etc. etc. more recently: Wong Kar Wai, Lars Von Trier, Pedro Almodovar.

Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Talking Heads, Erik Satie, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, etc etc. more recently: Grizzly Bear, Liars, Radiohead, Beach House, Animal Collective...

GG Marquez, Herman Hesse, Fernando Pessoa, Fjodor Dostojevski, Sandor Marai, Franz Kafka, etc etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My thesis short film being screened at Paramount Theatre in LA

Walking over Brooklyn Bridge at sunset, visiting Iguazu Falls with the woman of my life, hiking 10 days alone in the Himalayas, a silent vipassana meditation retreat, hitchhiking through China without speaking or reading Mandarin, climbing Rinjani volcano at night to arrive in the morning at the top while it was completely clouded, the Be-In festival in Idanha-a-Nova, tantra courses...

Teach, Learn, Share

yoga,
guitar playing,
walking cinema encyclopedia,
good orientation skills
writing,
photography,
going to indie music gigs,
meditation,
shiatsu,
cooking,
dancing,
talking about life, just hanging out and having fun etc etc.

What I Can Share with Hosts

see above

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, United States

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