CURRENT MISSION

Live ... and enjoy :)

ABOUT ME

I (Manu) am graduated in Agronomy and I now work in consultancy company specialised in Environment and Rural Development. In the future I would like to live in the countryside, maybe buy a farm in common with other friends. I love to travel, meet people ... well pretty much just as you I guess ;)
If your journey breaks in Brussels don't hesitate to call me for a drink or any other matter in which I could be helpful. Unfortunately it would be too difficult for now to host people because we just have had a little daughter who is now 8-month old, so we don't have anymore spare room.

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosted and surfed a bunch of couchsurfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I remember my first CS experience, it was in 2006 and remained since them the most interesting one even though I and We had many others afterward.
I was going to Montpellier for an internship of two weeks and did not want to "bother" too much by staying so long at one place so I found 4 different people who could host me for 3 or 4 days.
It was incredible to discover during two weeks the same city but through 4 very different pair of eyes. A student in photography showed me the lights of city by night; an passionate ecologist took me on walk in the surroundings of the city to learn about medicinal plants and a "bal folk"; two erasmus students reminded me of my own erasmus experience and a band of flamates and hard-rock musicians took me to the undergrounds bars to listen music I would probably not have discovered on my own.

It was amazing and since then I have always been thinking about somehow doing the same with my own hometown but never got the time to do it yet.

Interests

Travelling (the more slowly, the better), reading books and books and books, drawing, cycling, walking in the woods, listenning to the birds (Bouli!), doing a bit of sport, spending time on computers (Manu...!), playing piano or accordion... and so much more...!

• birds
• books
• photography
• environment
• walking
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• drawing
• music
• rock music
• piano
• cycling
• bungee jumping
• sports
• ecology
• study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

Books : Ken Follet, Paul Auster, Susan Fletcher, John Irving, Laurent Gaudé, Jostein Gaarder, Erik Orsenna, J.K. Rowling, Amadou Hampate Bah, Amhadou Kourouma, and many more ... !!!

Music : U2, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Flogging Molly, Cowboys Fringants, Catherine Feeny, Debout sur le Zinc, Les Ogres de Barback, les Vieilles Pies, La Rue Ketanou, Benabar, Brassens, Brel, Tarmac, Balimurphy, Counting Crows, Cranberries, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Enya, Renaud, and ... many more !!! :)

Movies : Billy Elliot, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Forrest Gump, Train de Vie, Juno, The boat that rocked, Little Miss Sunshine, Away we Go, C.R.A.Z.Y., Big Fish, Dead Poets Society, Roi Lion, Mulan, Face Off, La Vita e Bella, Good Bye Lenin, Slumdog Millionaire, Benjamin Button, Stand By Me, L'auberge Espagnole, Lord of the Rings, Grease, The Life of David Gale, Full Monthy... and a few more :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bungee jumped from the 110-meter high bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Teach, Learn, Share

Will see when we met, don't you think ?

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Niger, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, South Africa, Sweden, Togo, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Spain

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