ABOUT ME

Half French / half Danish, 29 years, grew up in France in an international setting, worked a couple of months in the cultural field for festivals & shows. I have now been working for 6 years as a consultant in customer service, marketing and sales. I also play the piano and study Russian and musicology in my spare time. My boyfriend is about to start a Master in international relations and reads dozen of books at the same time.

PHILOSOPHY

The lighter the bagpack is, the better is the travel experience

"A vaillans cuers riens impossible" (A coeur vaillant, rien d'impossible)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We can host a couple of travelers every month, except on Friday nights (busy on Saturday mornings). We have a couch for 2 persons in our living room and the doors can be shut to give you some privacy. Our schedule may be very tight some time, so please contact us in advance so that we can ensure a quality treatment. Also, we would very much appreciate to host people from Eastern Europe in order to practice our German and Russian !

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My boyfriend and I travelled in Québec and we met fabulous couchsurfers there... Then we hosted them back in my tiny, Parisian studio. Now we just come back from a bagpacking trip in Russia where our CS experience amazed us again. Since we live in a bigger appartment, we can now host some world travellers on a more regular basis.

Interests

Piano, classical music 19th and 20th century, Russian music and musicians, Russia, BERLIN, art history, Litterature, rock'n roll, geopolitics, fantasy & science fiction, wandering in the mountains, birds, wildlife, bagpacking

• wildlife
• birds
• arts
• culture
• books
• festivals
• cooking
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• piano
• art history
• geopolitics
• history
• international relations
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

German, Russian & French classical music, rock from the 70's, electronic music, trip hop,... among many others Radiohead, the Velvet Underground, artists from the Ninja tunes label. As for films, Florent's reference is Blade Runner. We both read a lot : realist writers from France, England and Russia (Zola, Dickens, Gogol, Tchekov, Dostoïevsky), American litterature and Florent reads fantasy & science fiction as well.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

3 years ago I created a social network that enables people that live near each other to exchange free services (language lessons, cooking lessons, d&y, haicuts, ...) : http://voizinsandco.fr/
It works in Paris and Rennes. I am now trying to find partners to expand the website to other cities. I strongly believe that our society should be less materialistic, less monetary

Teach, Learn, Share

French & European culture + all about our interests and mine

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, India, Italy, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, South Africa, United States

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