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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Travelling more, find the place where I would really liike to live.
ABOUT ME
I'm a Frenchman living in Brisbane.
I have been involved in writing, publishing, being a primary teacher, a librarian. I'm now a translator.
I am a non smoker and a social drinker.
PHILOSOPHY
Nothing is lost, everything get transformed.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
So far I received a few people, and has been hosted once.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Well, once upon a time before the internet and couch surfing, I did practice something a bit similar a few times. I spent some time in Martinique, hosted by friends, before finding a job.
Interests
Reading, writing, arts, cinema, people, thinking, being by the sea, surfing the net.
- arts
- writing
- movies
- reading
- traveling
- surfing
- teaching
- languages
Music, Movies, and Books
Will forget a lot of them! But here there are some works which made me grow, opened my mind, made me laugh...
art house movies, let's try some top ten:
- Amadeus, 2001, Barry Lindon, One flew over a cuckoo's nest, In the white town, Bagdad Cafe, Paris-Texas...
- George Perec, Marcel Proust, John Steinbeck, Kafka, John Irving, William Faulker, Nathalie Sarraute, Tom Sharpe, Camus, Garcia Marquez, Kawabata, Kerouac, Khalil Gibran, Jonhatan Livingston Seagull, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Corto Maltese, Gaston Lagaffe, Schuiten et Peters, Ken Nunn...
- The Clash, Bob Marley, reggae, ska, Stones, Chilli Peppers, Brel, Gainsbourg, Santana, african, latin, classic, jazz, Coltrane, Miles, Mingus... enjoy music, except Heavy Metal.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Being at the birth of my first child...
Once only in a glider...
Having helping someone to become a best-seller writer
Teach, Learn, Share
I believe one can learn something from almost anybody else.
Countries I’ve Visited
Barbados, Belgium, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Vanuatu
Countries I’ve Lived In
Australia, France, Martinique