ABOUT ME

Living in Interlaken
Paraglider, skier, snowboarder, bicycle madman and pingpong ninja.,
Industrial Engineer by education, Imagineer by calling.
Lover of random facts, festivals, time-machines, hammocks and rocking chairs.
Highly interested in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency discussions.
Love going for wines, beers & banter.
Big fan of sarcasm and irony.
Love to drink myself silly in the company of other people doing the same
Shower singer
Big traveler with a knack for the unusual which i showcase on http://kickasstrips.com
Creating a global correspondent movement with http://cult.is

As a born Dutchie who thinks his own country is too flat I feel an ominpresent need to be close to mountains.

This summer (2015) I got my paragliding licence

My travel addiction started about ten years ago when I did my Erasmus study abroad in Norway and shortly after lived in Singapore for almost a year for my Uni graduation project (Masters degree in Industrial Engineering)
Ever since then i have been roaming the planet doing multiple ski seasons (austria & switzerland, france) and living in France to learn French and in China for over 2 years to learn Chinese.
Languages are indeed one of my big passions and my latest one is Russian (been doing summer courses in Moscow, Tallinn and Tomsk)

I am all about exploring new and adventurous things. Move, mingle and master. Meet new people, do new things and learn from it.
I love sports and to be active, cycle, run, ride, swim, jump and slide through the amazing playground that is the world

Socializing, boogie-woogie-ing, having drinks, doing sports, jumping, partying,....i like them all

Lover of festivals and been to many in Eastern Europe: Sziget (Hungary), INmusic (Croatia), Exit (Serbia), Colours of Ostrava (Czech Republic), Positivus (Latvia), Pohoda (Slovakia), Pid Kamin (Ukraine

PHILOSOPHY

Live your life. Take Chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because Right Now is the Oldest you've ever been and the Youngest you'll Ever be again!

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy Shit, what a ride!"

Not all those who wander are lost!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I move, I mingle and I master the art of surfing a couch by the infallible 'just do it' approach

I hosted around 30 people in my house in Switzerland last summer and i have surfed multiple times myself

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfing in Dubai which turned into an awesome hiking adventure in Oman between camels and deserts!

Sneaking in a Swiss music festival for free with my couchsurfers to see the Foo Fighters and Flogging Molly

Interests

I love Rocking chairs & hammocks
Lover of both good and super cheap bad wine
I cook with passion and eat with pleasure
Shower singer, random facts fanatic and karaoke demigod
I love Sports like cycling/mountainbiking, hiking, skiing/snowboarding, beerpong, swimming, tennis,....
I love playing imaginary frisbee in crowded places
I love both good and bad wine
I Love the smell of freshly cut grass, the smell of ground coffee, the sound of silence on a mountain top, the feel of a spring breeze on my bike, the view of a smile
I enjoy pondering about life and brainstorming in general
I love dreaming up crazy travel ideas (see my website www.kickasstrips.com)
I love languages
I would love to start my own hostel in the future
I love chocolate

• arts
• books
• festivals
• education
• cooking
• chocolate
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• marathon
• running
• instructor
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• karaoke
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• sports
• rock climbing
• tennis
• paragliding
• swimming
• teaching
• engineering
• languages
• study abroad
• mountains
• bitcoin
• mountain hiking
• cryptocurrency
• ethereum
• cryptocurrencies
• p2p lending

Music, Movies, and Books

I generally prefer reading non-fictional books, (auto)biographies, quirky travel stories,.....
Books that i like (and which you probably never heard of):
Around Ireland with a fridge
Playing the moldovans at tennis
Three men on a bike
Freakonomics
A fortune teller told me: Eathbound travels in the far east
Losing my virginity by Richard Branson
Investment biker
Are you Dave Gorman?
Nelson Mandela's autobiography
The lonely planet story
Abgefahren

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Volcano boarding at 61km/h down the Cerro Negro volcano in Nicaragua

Climbing Mount Kinabalu on Borneo (highest mountain in South-East Asia) at sunrise and gazing at the Philipines from the top

Running up 76 floors Singapore's highest skyscraper at their vertical marathon race finishing on the heli platform with a view on Malaysia and Indonesia

Hiking for hours on the Great Wall of China

Teach, Learn, Share

LEARN
I would like to start my own Hostel sometime in the future so anyone who has wicked ideas for that please tell me all about it

I want to learn everything about cacao growing and chocolate making

Anything about funny, cool, hilarious, original, inspirational books/movies/adventures/trips

TEACH:
I Used to be an excellent tree house builder when i was a kid so if you'd like to know sth. about that i am all yours
I am technically speaking an engineer so i guess that is a skill

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Monaco, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Panama, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland

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