I'm Manuel, 28 years old, and I love travelling and getting to know new places and meeting new people/making friends all over the world. Despite my young age, I've already traveled the world extensively, but I'm still far from satisfied in that regard. To date, I've mostly stayed in either hostels or airbnb while travelling and I've decided it's time to try couchsurfing - can't lie, partly it's because it's free, but I also really like the concept. Now that I've got my own place I'm also eager to host travellers from all over the world!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As a young traveler with limited funds, I tend to explore every means possible to save up money while still seeing the world. I'd be lying if I said money wasn't a primary concern. But even aside from that, I travel not just to see new places but also to meet great people from all over the world, and couchsurfing provides a great platform to do just that, in a different way to hostels for instance.

Interests

Travelling (duh), meeting new people/making friends, sports, films, TV series, reading, video games, languages, philosophy, drinking/partying hard, extreme sports... I also work out a lot: running, gym, cycling, other sports... I'm super active every single day and like to stay in great shape/am proud of my body.

I have a very wide range of interests and can have a good time in a myriad of different ways.

• partying
• drinking
• anime
• movies
• video games
• reading
• extreme sports
• languages
• travelling
• tv series
• manga
• meeting people

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - enjoy all genres

Movies - Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future, Star Wars, Oldboy, Dead Poets Society, Baraka, The Secret in Her Eyes, Andrei Rublev, Forrest Gump, Rain Man, most Studio Ghilbi films and countless others, have watched over 1k films in my life

Books - Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, Lord of the Rings, all of Hercule Poirot's stories, The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole, etc...

I'm also a huge fan of Japanese anime and manga!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I like to think that I've done a lot of amazing things, with many yet to come as well. Here's a few though:

Climbing Mount Fuji
Skydiving
Bungee Jumping
Paragliding
Parasailing
Scuba Diving

Teach, Learn, Share

Look forward to sharing my life experience with others and having them share theirs with me as well. When it comes to teaching/learning, I firmly believe that we can learn stuff from everyone we meet, so I'm sure any relationship with hosts/travelers will be mutually beneficial. In terms of specific skills, it's hard to make a real list, but if anyone needs help learning Portuguese/Spanish/French (or even English) I'm your guy.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can help out with whatever is necessary around the house, also willing to do activities together (from just talking to raving till morning, depending on what the host feels like doing).

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Portugal