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Overview

  • 23 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French, Italian; learning Czech, German, Spanish
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Recruitment consultant
  • International Business
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Hoping to host a bunch of interesting people together with my amazing girlfriend Nikola who I fell in love with while she and her best friends couchsurfed at my house in Belgium.

Travel as much as we can (with 30ish holidays it's unfortunately rather limited).

To excel in my new job as a recruitment consultant and most importantly enjoy it. Learn 10 languages before I turn 45 and travel the world.

ABOUT ME

I grew up in Grimbergen, a beautiful little community in Flanders. I enjoyed la dolce vita for one year as an Erasmus student in Parma, Italy. I love being impulsive, not think too much and just do it. I can't live without doing sports. I love meeting people from all over the world and seeing their country through their eyes. Haven't travelled that much yet, but i'm working on that right now :)

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy life, you only have one!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Trying to host and surf whenever I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed two days on the couch of Sofia Palma, an awesome Portuguese girl!
Couchsurfing NYE party (hosted by Eugenia) and Pillow fight in Milan.
Hosting Marco at my place in Parma. Hosted several surfers from the US, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Czech Republic and Slovakia in Belgium. Fell in love with 4 couchsurfers from Czech Republic while they stayed at my place in Belgium for a week, one of them even got me to move countries just to be closer to her.
Hoping to have a lot more CS experiences in the next few years.

Interests

Having fun with friends, Listening to good music and going to festivals, Boxing, sitting around a campfire and singing (horribly off-key), enjoying a good beer, cooking, and most of all hitchhiking; you meet so many awesome people and see places you never would if you're traveling by bus or train.

  • singing
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • beer
  • running
  • partying
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • skydiving
  • sports
  • boxing
  • business
  • languages
  • study abroad
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Rise against, Biffy clyro, Bon Iver, Mumford and Sons, Paolo nutini, Foo fighters, passenger, Of Monsters and Men, Ray Charles, Ben Howard

Movies: The hangover, Into the wild, The butterfly effect, austin powers, Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, La vita è bella, Trainspotting, Band of Brothers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking in Portugal for three weeks, being an Erasmus 'student' in Italy, Skydiving the first time i've ever been in an airplane, Running around the colosseum naked, Move to the middle of nowhere in China to start a job as a white face...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to break an appel in two, or even in four (only for experts) :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Italy

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