CURRENT MISSION

Hey everyone, I'm a random Austrian guy with an unstoppable urge to travel, wander around and getting lost! Finally settled down in Weiz though with my lovely family ♥

As we're both rather busy with work and family activities, it's not exactly easy to host thus we'll probably invite people here.

Giving back some of the hospitality and friendship we received ourselves during traveling 😊
As well as having a great time and raising our fantastic son!

We've had quite some international guests in Vienna. Their countries of origin were - USA, Nicaragua, Honduras, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Philippines, Argentina, Chile, Russia, Israel, Turkey, Ukraine, Thailand, Vietnam, Czech Republic, Italy, Colombia, Poland, India and others

We are still trying to host a few surfers. But we wanna keep up the couchsurfing spirit, so take some time to think about, why we might be the right hosts. I'll try to get back to any request/message.

ABOUT ME

We're a newlywed couple and have a wonderful son since 2020. We moved to a lovely house right next to Weiz 😊

It´s really hard to tell but I guess spontaneous, outgoing, friendly and intelligent, curious, fun, open-minded, straight, athletic, understanding, polite, CRAZY ^^ and so on :-) Just find it out ;-)

I use whatsapp and usually text my number in the chat, so it's easier to communicate ^^

PHILOSOPHY

Treat others the way you want to be treated

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN

If we're free and have space we'll try to host anybody - preferably on weekends, because we work weekdays.

Whereever the wind takes me :-) I always try to help my hosts in household, their job/studies, ...

Guess I'd call myself an experienced couchsurfer by now (after using this amazing service actively for several years) 😄 I always try to be considerate, flexible, polite, fun, helpful - in general a legendary bloke, and think it works out pretty well 😜

I try to give back as much as I can! :-D

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Great experiences!! :-D US american, australian, Kiwi, Asian, European and Latin American people are really awesome! And of course the traveling people I meet! ;-) update: I'd still say the exact same thing - was traveling Europe as well as Latin America and got hosted / met up with so many fantastic people 😍 got pretty experienced reading the hosts profiles and actually choosing the right one (kind of the perfect match) 😉

Also had great experiences hosting people from Austria, Great Britain, Vietnam, Hungary, USA and the list goes on! :-D

Interests

Hitchhiking, High diving, Slacklining, Climbing, weight training but rather streetworkout (calisthenics), X box, movies, music, music and nightlife, festivals, nature - hiking, culture & history, reading books (on my kindle but also the real ones) and many more. And of course TRAVELING!! 😍

• wildlife
• insects
• reptiles
• culture
• books
• acting
• festivals
• chinese new year
• capoeira
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• yoga
• nightlife
• partying
• boating
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• camping
• mountaineering
• surfing
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• baseball
• boxing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• history
• languages
• hitchhiking
• sightseeing
• beaches
• lakes
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Sooooooo many! I like Movies that make me think and the same for books. I love Music, mostly pretty calm or alternative... But I´m totally open for new things :-) there's plenty of thrillers I like but also dramas or comedies (you actually never know beforehand if you'll like a movie or book so just give it a try) 😋

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

traveling alone to albania and spain
for work
visting several rock festivals in austria
sightseeing in Amsterdam ;-)
Skydiving - two times
Traveling alone in America (USA), Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Macau & Hong Kong, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia and Great Britain :-D
Making amazing friends all over the world 😍

Honestly there are just too many things, to mention them here seems impossible ^^ But I´ll try in a "little" summary of my first long term journey:

Apparently time flies when you´re having fun - I totally agree!! Left austria almost for a year on march 2nd 2013, not knowing what to expect and it turned out to be one of the most amazing experiences in my life!! <3 Never had a job, but did tiling in Manhatten and Staten Island, cut a hosts hair in LA, built a mobile shower in Hawaii, did timberwork in Melbourne, painted an apparment in Canberra, cleaned a "spaceshuttle" bathroom in Tokyo, almost got a teaching job in China and Laos, built a hammock and a swing on a lonely island of Lankawi and carved a wooden spoon there, helped improving a floating home on Langkawi and always washed the dishes ;-) Saw a lot of wildlife - wild bears and racoons in California, a coyote in Death Valley, moose at Grand Canyon, a huge seaturtle in Oahu, wild kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, koalas, parrots in Australia, opossums, parrots, hawks, cockatoos, dolphins, babyseals and of course sheep in New Zealand, millions of butterflys and dragonflys in Japan, locked up pandas in Macau, was riding on an ostrich in Vietnam and saw a few monkeys there, saw many monkeys and a few locked up elephants in Cambodia and Thailand, a hornbil and a varan on a small island of Thailand, jellyfish, rainbow fishes, sea urchins and a seasnake in the oceans around Thailand, a lot of monitor lizards and poisonous snakes (even a scorpion) in Malaysia... Did so many incredible things like getting lost in Manhatten, going on Empire Statebuilding, getting my tongue pierced in Chinatown, picking up a homeless guy, going to a stripclub & getting a lapdance, saw the St. Patricks day parade in Manhattan (had a car accident that day ^^), picked up a homeless guy in Chinatown (Manhattan), celebrated Springbreak in Fort Lauderdale (Miami) & got a terrible sunburn :p, sightseeing in Hollywood (even met an actor), swimming in the freezing pacific in Long Beach, made a Roadtrip with 2 frenchies and a german through California, Nevada and Arizona, tried surfing in Waikiki, went out in a gaybar in sydney, got lost in the bush around Wollongong, made a roadtrip in New Zealand with 3 parisians for 25 days on North and south island, drove a lot in left hand traffic in NZ and a bit in Australia (from Sydney to melbourne), got lost in the australian bush, drove along the Great Ocean Road, Climbed Mt. Kitadake (Japans 2nd highest mountain) for 3 days, saw the Gozan firefestival in Kyoto, met a friend 3 times in Japan, watched a baseball game in Koshien (and Arizona), visited the Tiananmen square - forbidden city in Beijing, the Terracotta warriors in Xian, climbed Hua Shan 1236m - on steps!, went along the great wall, got pick pocketed in Manila, joined a party with 200 CS´ers on a lonely beach in Zambales - jumped over the bon fire, stopped smoking in Hong Kong and tried Muay Thai there, celebrated Halloween in Macau, attended a Jazz festival and tried Capoeira there, traveled with a guy from luxembourg and a girl from france in Vietnam and Cambodia - slept on a boat in Halong Bay, visited the driest place in South east asia when it was raining :p, rented motorbikes and cruised around (in Vietnam and Thailand), made a boat tour in Mekong Delta and came to Cambodia by boat, drove a bicycle to the Temples of Angkor until my ass was hurting ^^, stayed in a school in siem reap via CS and met the pupils, got a root canal treatment in Bangkok and celebrated christmas there, had an amazing New Year in Laos with "selfmade" fireworks and tubing, stayed on a houseboat and a lonely island on Langkawi and explored the island by rental car, celebrated Chinese New Year in Malaysia :-D Never had a lonelyplanet or a guidebook! :p

Saw millions of Waterfalls, caves, beaches, spectacular Sunsets (few sunrises ^^), so many UNESCO world heritage sites and cities, beaches, jungles, glaciers, nationalparks, [got wasted quite a few times :p], learned counting and basic phrases in 7 languages - Thank you and Cheers in even more, tried delicious and "weird" food like insects, reptiles, dogblood, penis wine, exotic fruits and veggies, unidentifiable meat even had styrian Kernöl and Puntigamer beer!! Spent many days/nights in airports, busses, trains, airplanes, minivans, busstops... learned so many things by meeting different people and experiencing cultures, even half a song on 2 instruments :-D Read around 10 books (more than in the 24 years before ^^), wrote over 100 postcards, visited 14 countries, took 75GB(!!) worth of pictures and gained more than 500 facebook friends (need to sort out though :p) Had an uncountable variety of showers, like public toilets/pools, baths in freezing melting water, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, hot springs,... Had 6 SIM cards and 4 haircuts on 3 different continents ^^ Did a lot of hiking/mountaineering and Sightseeing whereever I went to, did camping for 1,5 months all together, got a scar from almost every single country I visited!! ^^ And the most important thing - I met incredibly awesome people, who I proudly call FRIENDS now <3 Words can´t describe how grateful I am for the opportunities and experiences mostly enabled by Couchsurfing!! :-D Even met 4 friends from Austria (in Mt.Evelyn, Macau and Hue) and about 30 austrians in total <3 This was just my first long term trip and it was indescribable, unforgettable, incredible, unique... ;-) Thanks a lot to everyone who participated and especially to my parents who manage the homebase :-* Life is a journey <3

WOW that got pretty long!! :o thaha :p

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to learn and share my knowledge and experience ;-) basically I wanna learn everything 😅 the things I'm pretty good at or I really enjoy doing will get more attention I guess...

It´s awesome to learn new things - would love to learn an instrument (but I'm a bit lazy) ^^ seems like we're learning something new almost every single day - just ask yourself what did I learn today and I'm quite certain that there's anything you learned 😉

What I Can Share with Hosts

Trying my best to be a good guest ;-) Sharing experience of my previous journey, beeing good company, supporting my host in any life situation, cooking (at least the basic stuff) :-D
love to have conversations about basically anything and getting to know new friends all over the place! 👌

And I always do the dishes, that´s kind of my thing ^^

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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