CURRENT MISSION

Help others have a good time in this pretty city of mine.

ABOUT ME

I'm an open-minded guy that likes to get to know new people and expand his horizon. People have described me as funny - but well, I'll let you be the judge. ^^

I'm very interested in what's going on in the world as well as history. Love to discuss that stuff.I have quite a bit of useless knowledge from hours and hours and hours wasted on Wikipedia; consequently I really like showing people around town and relaying historic anecdotes and so on.
One thing that's important to me is to always treat guests as well as possible, I hope I'll live up to this self-made goal. I also love to cook, and the more people join in, the merrier.

I do prefer (very) short term requests, so if you ask like a month ahead I'll probably won't know if I can host you or not!

PHILOSOPHY

I like Albert Camus and his Absurdism, but am way, waaay too inexperienced in philosophical matters to make a definite judgement about this.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The people I've hosted so far really have enriched my life and have confirmed that there are decent people out there, no matter where they are from. I'd call this a nice experience.

Interests

Getting to know new people from different countries and cultures, cooking & trying out new recipes, sports (mountainbiking, archery & fitness), the art of creating a great shisha, politics, history, literature (especially Classic Russian), records & turntables as well as playing the accordion and trying learn the piano.

• arts
• literature
• cooking
• recipes
• politics
• bouldering
• piano
• hiking
• windsurfing
• skiing
• sports
• archery
• history
• mountainbiking
• accordion
• tango argentino

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
The Diskworld Series (Terry Pratchett)
Er ist wieder da (Tino Verdes)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Anna Karenina, War and Peace (Tolstoy)

Music:
Queen, Digitalism, Peces Raros, Justice, Pink Floyd, Pendulum, Audioslave, Falco, EAV, Daft Punk, Metallica, as well as Yann Tiersen and Philip Glass

Movies: Black Swan, Vanilla Sky, Flags of our Fathers, Stalingrad, Corpse Bride, The Beach, Fight Club

Series: The Simpsons, Futurama, An Idiot abroad, Game of Thrones

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd sure like to share some Austrian, Italian or Thai recipes if anyone's interested. Also, if you like to smoke water pipes now and then, maybe I can give you a tip or two.
It goes without saying that I'm eager to learn more myself in those topics - and if anyone could help me improve my French or Russian, that would be especially awesome.

Also appreciated is knowledge how to play the piano. I just started playing and am eager to improve and learn tipps and techniques! ^^

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, tea, sweets, waterpipe, random trivia and witticisms... oh yeah, and also my flat. =)