ABOUT ME

Hi, my name is Marlies and Im from the Netherlands. I love to travel whenever I can and get to know other people and their cultures. Right now due to work i havent got a lot of opportunity to go travel, but im open for hosting and meeting up with people.

PHILOSOPHY

enjoy the small things in life, and do whatever do want to do..why wait??

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just spend two years in the US where I met up with people thanks to couch surfing and now im back in the Netherland I want to participate more by open my home for fellow travellers and meet up to show them my country.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I mostly used this website to meet up with other travellers.

Interessi

Love to travel and get to know different cultures. South and Central America are my favourite places in the world and Im trying to learn Spanish to be able to communicate with the people who are living there.
beside traveling i love going to concerts or festivals, being outdoors hiking/biking/swimming/camping, and lots more

• culture
• concerts
• festivals
• cooking
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• swimming

Musica, film e libri

Mumford and sons, the Who, Ben Howard, ( or just a good live band in a bar)
Legends of the Fall
Historical novels

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

Life in general is pretty amazing, i cannot choose one experience, but here is a couple:

- worked on a cattle station in Australia
- traveling solo through El Salvador, feeling like the only foreigner.
- hiking Acatenango in Guatemala and saw a volcano erupt 6 times from our campsite.

Insegna, impara, condividi

I would like to get fluent in spanish, I could teach anything to do with the dutch culture (language, cooking, customs etc).

Paesi che ho visitato

Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Paesi in cui ho vissuto

Australia, Netherlands, United States