CURRENT MISSION

Explore the countrylife

ABOUT ME

we are a peace-loving family of three, which likes to travel around the world (especially northern europe) and discover new places of beauty. we are very much into arts and music, which results in spending all of our money on concerts, books, photography or art exhibitions (well almost all of it :P)

when we are not travelling, we like to stay at home and have a relaxed evening with friends in our cosy flat listening to music or watching a good film, drinking tea and cooking. generally, we are more laid back people, but, when in the right mood, we can go crazy too :P

Last year (2013) our son was born and we moved from Vienna to the countryside.

PHILOSOPHY

Watch with guttering eyes the whole world around you
because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

[Roald Dahl]

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We would say it is a good balance between hosting and surfing!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

very well so far... we hosted our couch to several very nice and kind people.
We had some extraordinary experiences on the countryside in switzerland and france in 2010, and also in berlin & amsterdam when we visited couchsurfing friends! In 2011 we visited many of our couchsurfing friends in the UK and spent time with them (for example climbing up Snowdon, camping in Wales or attending Green Man Festival!) It was absolutely amazing!

Interests

Music. Photography . Lomography. Art. Cooking. Movies. Scandinavia. Concerts. Travelling. Knitting. Pottery. Handcraft. Vintage Fashion & Furniture. Social Rights. Environement. UK. Sacandinavia. Nature. Slow Food. Organic Food. Bee Keeping. Urban Gardening.

• arts
• books
• fashion
• photography
• beauty
• concerts
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• organic food
• drinking
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• pottery
• knitting
• music
• camping
• surfing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Pedro Almodóvar, Tim Burton, Sofia Coppola, Jean Luc Godard, Truffaut, Tarsem Singh, Guillermo del Toro, Werner Herzog, Mike Leigh,...

We love the work of Michel Gondry (Science of sleep, The Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Be kind rewind, Me you and everyone we know) and the most: WES ANDERSON (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bottle Rockets, The Life AquaticRoyal Tennenbaums, etc.),

American independent films like Into the wild, Stranger than fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Garden State, Tideland,...

Scandinavian films like Dark Horse, Lovers of the polarcircle, Elling, Kitchen Stories, Noì Albinoì,...

Willbur wants to kill himself, The Fall, The Tree, The Fountain, El laberinto del fauno, The Secret Garden, I am a cyborg but that's ok,...

Radiohead, Sigur Rós, A silver mt. zion, seabear, múm, amiina, sin fang bous, parachutes, slowblow, the frames, pearl jam, magnolia electric co., shearwater, okkervil river, amandine, bat for lashes, boy omega, basia bulat, coco rosie, bright eyes, beirut, death cab for cutie, interpol, calexico, modest mouse, portishead, the notwist, ferraby lionheart, get cape wear cape fly, iliketrains, great lake swimmers, grizzly bear, midlake, the unicorns/the islands, antony and the johnsons, rachel's, fleet foxes, fanfarlo, too lazy to continue have a look on our last fm profile: http://www.lastfm.de/user/mybrokengarden

jostein gaarder, haruki murakami, dostojewskij, hermann hesse, marisha pessl, jeffrey eugenides, stefan zweig, krakauer, theodor w. adorno, alessandro baricco, nabokov, kafka, paul auster, judith hermann, charles darwin, adam smith, david hume, ende, brontefamily, thomas hardy, oscar wilde, james joyce ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37796174@N06/

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

all our journeys, we did together - especially our trip to iceland, england and brittany/normandie.

met colin greenwood in the streets of amsterdam during our radiohead concert trip.

camping wild in the woods of sweden and taking the daily bath in the sea.

swimming in a wild atlantic with huuuuuge waves.

watched the sun rising on a beautiful beach in brittany.

finding fossils on chesil beach in lyme regis, england.

3 month of working on organic farms across the UK.

and of course: the greatest experience: the birth of our son!

Teach, Learn, Share

Hannah is a knitting pro and knows a lot of stuff about educating children. We love to learn about everything someone can tell us something about ;)
at the moment we would like to learn all about bee keeping... :) and also about foraging, permaculutre and self sufficiency!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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