CURRENT MISSION

being positive and sunny

ABOUT ME

Open-minded and open-hearted, communicative in different languages; we are the family (34m,37f,14f,10m) travelling together and in parts (2 or 4);
Travelling without agencies, going where we want - by plane or by car, on canoe or on feet

PHILOSOPHY

by living your life you give the sense to it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

June 2012: fantastic week in Lithuania and France due to couchsurfing.
June-July 2012: first surfers in Saint-Patersburg

Interests

Travelling, canoeing, nature-goers, sports - skiing, swimming, football, basketball, badminton, volleyball; reading, languages;

• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• canoeing
• skiing
• sports
• basketball
• soccer
• volleyball
• swimming
• badminton
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

writers - Fedor Dostoevsky, Lawrence Durrell, Marcel Proust, Fazil Iskander
music - classical (Beethoven, Vivaldi, Chopin), jazz, rock, russian bards
movies - many good soviet ones

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

white nights in may and june Saint-Petersburg - we are happy we live in this city;
spending a night in the tent on a rock in 10 km from a real epicentre of a real windstorm which resulted in an awful tree-harvest;
fantastic sunsets on Vuoksa river and Vuoksa lake

Teach, Learn, Share

to teach: riding a uni-cycle, riding a russian baydarka (canoe)

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation