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  • 19 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch; learning Croatian, English, French, German, Greek (modern), Italian, Spanish
  • 69, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • None....just trying to be a good wife, a nice mum, a gues...
  • Long ago:-)) Long ago, they gave me a paper as an academi...
  • From Flanders, Belgium
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Progress has little to do with speed but a lot with direction...

ABOUT ME

This account originally was created by my wife Magda. Unfortunately she died the 7 of July 2012. I realy want to continue hosting friends of all over the world, like we used to do before she went ill. With respect to Magda I made the less possible changes on what she wrote.

PHILOSOPHY

World would be a better place if....
....people who have met each other in person cannot kill or fight the other one or his/her friends.....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

**2007**
25-26/12; Dimitris and Aggela (Greece)
28-30/12: Esther (USA)
**2008**
1-2/1: Kieran (USA)
5-6/1: Esther and Jordan (USA)
2-3/2: Jordan
1-2/3: Our daughter Talitha had a very nice CS-experience in Atlanta with Arman.
15-16/3: Lode (B)
18-19/5: Armand (Fr)
28/8-8/9: Giacomo (Switserland)
7/10-9/10: Len (Canada)
8/10-9/10: Eddie (Canada)
11/10-12-10: Brian (USA)
**2009**
11/4-14/4: Bartosz (Poland)
17/10-18/10: Seb and Claire-Lyse (Suisse)
26/12-28/12: Mario and Matija (Croatia)
**2010**
October: Seb and Claire-Lyse (again:-))
**2011**
5/4-6/4: Roman and friends (Poland)
October: seb and Claire-Lyse (as usual)
**2012**
18/7 Núria and Pau (Catalúnia [E])
30-31/7 Levi (Rumania)
19/8 Daniel (Hungaria)
19/8 Julia (Ukraine) and Bastian (Germany)

Interests

Nature, dogs, reading, friends, traveling, environment, frugality, making long walks....
At this very moment: walking to Athens....two people and a dog....slow and steady wins the race:-))
We walked about 1000 km, from home to Sankt Anton am Arlberg in Austria. For the moment I don't know if I will continue the walk on my own (with the dog of course)

  • dogs
  • environment
  • bbq
  • walking
  • partying
  • yachting
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm not good at music....
I enjoy a bit of everything (from gregorian over opera to ska to world music to simple "hits") but not always and not too much:-)
I like to read and my goal (which I will never reach:-)) is to have read one book from every Nobel-prize winner...but why are most of them so dull?????
Best film have have seen in 2007: Babel.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Euh????
Having raised 4 children so that they all want to see the world and enjoy meeting people?
I made a trip through the desert in Maroc and that was really WAW!!!
Being married to the same guy for 31 years and still loving eachother?
We took hollidays with our 4 (then small) children during the war in ex-Yougaslavia and we organised a party with people of 10 nationalities,also Serbs, Croatians, aso... and it was the nicest party we ever had!!!!
Being invited on the yacht of a Russian miljonair in Dubrovnik and he made a "vodka-barbecue" on his yacht....a little bit of chicken "fried" in a lot of vodka.....

Teach, Learn, Share

they say I make terrific spaghetti-sauce and I can share the recipe:-)
I can teach you how to milk a goat and my husband is very good in explaining maths (for who ever that is interesting:-)).
I'm looking for that unique person who can teach me how to make a perfectly soft-boiled egg!!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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