Please remember I AM NOT in the city center in spite of a good connection to it by public transport (30min), but it is adviced to be organised after 9PM (I give you all information about this in a document).
My place is very suitable for those travelling by car with easy and free parking.

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I define my self as a slow traveller (and indeed I walked from my home to Compostella in 2010).

About myself, I am a reliable and quiet person, autonomous and open minded (I have my faith too).
I need and appreciate physical work, the very reason why I never succeeded as a bureaucrat!
I sing gregorian hours at least two times a day in my local romanic church, whose acoustics is fabulous.

I have to express that I am getting tired about "woke" and "cancel culture", a proud ignorance and a betrayal of the truth, historically speaking but not only.
In the last years, the numbers of travellers - although nice sometimes but always unexperienced - sincerely beleaving in this ideology, is increasing, and I use to hear the same bullshit in the mouth of different people, knowing exactly in advance what they will say.
So in these conditions, the disturbance about introducing an unknown person at home, which is time-consuming, appears to overcome the pleasure of the visit. But if you are a good will person, open to discuss and listening what you are told about, you are welcome. Thank-you very much for understanding this.

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Je me définis moi même comme un "voyageur de petite vitesse" (et en effet j'ai accompli d'une seule traite le pélerinage de Compostelle en 2010 depuis chez moi).

A propos de moi-même, je pense que je suis une personne de conscience, calme, autonome, positive, et d'esprit ouvert même si j'ai mes convictions. J'apprécie et j'ai besoin d'une composante physique dans mon travail, c'est pourquoi je n'ai jamais fait carrière dans la bureaucratie.
Je chante les offices grégoriens dans l'église romane locale, à l'acoustique fabuleuse.

Je dois dire ici que je suis un peu fatigué de la cancel culture et du wokisme, qui consiste en une fière et arrogante ignorance basée sur tous types de mensonges, historiques notamment, et un discours d'une banalité absolue, où l'on sait d'avance ce qu'on va entendre.
J'ai constaté une présente croissante de cette idéologie parmi les voyageurs, notamment parmi les plus jeunes ; dans ces conditions, la contrainte et le dérangement que représente la présence à domicile de quelqu'un à qui je me dois consacrer du temps l'emporte sur l'agrément de la visite.
Donc si vous avez ces idées et que vous pensez sincèrement qu'elles sont vraies parce qu'elles sont sur tel site internet, je souhaite éviter de perdre mon temps avec vous tant que vous défendez ces "idées".
Si vous parler ne sert à rien parce que vous ne tenez pas compte de ce qu'on vous dit, que vous avez l'esprit de contradiction (toutes vos phrases ou presque commençant par "oui mais") il serait judicieux de ne pas venir. Merci de votre compréhension.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My place is quite full, so i cannot garantee I will host you, but I respond any request I receive.

I suscribed to CS in january 2009. Before that time, I was a member of Servas, a society of travellers that was created in 1947 by people wanting to promote peace after second world war. It was before the internet ; one had to rent the "host list" of the country one was travelling in, a printed booklet you were supposed to return once back at home.

Interests

Music, singing, campanology (knowledge and study of bells)
architecture, mathematics, history,
gardening, nature, cycling,
philosophy and politics, religions,
psychology, people,

Music, Movies, and Books

Victor Hugo, Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Frantz Kafka

corsican poliphony, barocco musique, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Malicorne, church bells and carillion ... whatever sounds

I run a music group with friends : www.asculta.fr

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I walked to Compostela from my home in 2010
I rang with my feet the 14.000 pounds big bell of the Saint Regis basilica in Ardèche, : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvB7o3p6caA .

What I Can Share with Hosts

I live in a scenic area just a stone throw away from Lyon, it's green, silent, and nice. The place I live in is a XVI century house with a garden and a fire during wintertime. The place itself is to be shared.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Netherlands, United States

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