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  • 45 references 40 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Spanish
  • 71, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • traveler allways looking for paradies spots in my in- and...
  • Beside my macro-oeconomic diploma I studied couple and fa...
  • From Born in Muenster/Westfalia in northern part of Germany
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I realized sometime ago that I invent myself day by day - and I try to be very careful with me and others

ABOUT ME

I learned that you can't be careful enough choosing your parants the next time. Last time it was to late to realize it wasn't my place - so I had to travel to find my place to live. Still in double-checking my actual vision with my reality. Maybe my next holiday trip brings me a bit closer to my final destination - meens to a cosy little hut on a lush beachspot with a swinging bed in front overlooking the bay - maybe some dolphins jumping in the fare distance to make the scenery more realistic. Breeth, feel and listen to the tropical athmosphere inside and outside your body - now and fore ever.

PHILOSOPHY

Check your subjects of sero-tolenance every day and don't trust yourself in points of view that my change in a 15 minutes time. - Try to be like a bamboo - both: when storms are coming up and good times follow - maybe you can lean on your neighbours in good times and give strength and stability in bad times - viceversa. Enjoy living here and now other than stressing your phantasies or living in the past. Check your believes, and change your inner happyness with every new step in life by influence of other people, culture, believes and points of view. Sometimes by listening to your inner voice or your guilding angels.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

For the last few days I get close to my decission that I do the right step to confedence, trust myself and other people and open myself to the idea of "one human family". Which needs to be practiced by using my abilities to host strangers helping them to get more familiar with the place they visit and the person I am, vice-versa. I expect that I'll will be learning so much about me and my "does and dont's" to get closer to the person I wonna be for a long time allready. Let's start the game and open the door - surprise, surprise.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I did couchsurfing without knowing couchsurfing in the past. Inviting people to my house in Ubud/Bali that I met on the road as well as being on sofas somewhere in the Atlas mountains in Tunesia in a sheltered hut of some beduin families. - Fare to little experience and to much *to*****-overnights in the last fifty years concouring the world. Time for changing my focus on giving other people the chance to meet me. Here I am.

Interests

Talk, talk, talk and listen, listen. Conversation in general, and as being a hedonist I like all the goodies and sometimes forbidden things in life, good food, some drinks with it, music, again some bla-bla-bla, traveling, taking photos, sailing, sit & relax, overlooking a scene and expecting some friends to come, my boyfriend Lucas at first for sure, making love, sex and more blues instead of rock-and-roll. - Riding my Motorbike, maybe Italy, all over Germany, Denmark, Norway, Spain and Austria. And to enjoy all the people and nature on both sides of the road, like I did in Indonesia/Bali with a big woodcarved "Aloha"-sign in front of my scooter. Feeling like being in haven to me. - Some interests like tennis, sking, even sailing and swiming isn't that easy 'cause I had an exident some four years ago recovering in very small steps. But still surf every day on the internet at least for some hours opening my mind and feelings for the time when all the pain I feel is over and gone.

  • culture
  • dining
  • coffee
  • drinking
  • pub crawls
  • traveling
  • music
  • blues
  • opera
  • surfing
  • sailing
  • tennis
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Film + DVD: Love of siam, Cinema paradiso etc.
Music: Country and western, classic like piano-concert No. 1+2 by Rachmaninov, pop-music like Joe Cocker, Steve Wonder, Motown records in general, some etno like gamalan, italian SanRemo-Hits and french Aznavour-She's! - And silence more and more often.
Books: I buy tree books a week: yesterday a documentary on Thai-photo-prints of the 1920's, a hand-out on floral-design for my friend, traveling guides from APA and Vis-Ã-Vis and second hand book of every kind, no phantasy, horror, crime and warlitherture at all. I bought a Gay-Comic the other day, that's fun.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been sitting in front of Sydney opera house, still five euro and a flight ticket to Tahiti and back home to Munich/Germany in my pocket. Incl. Auckland/SF/LA/NYC/London-destinations, right after the tsunami 2005 coming from Bali where I stayed for nearly a year. - But not a cent more. Invited to stay in a B&B-pub overnight and looking Australian-open-tennis-turnament with steak-eating locals and their families. And I had not been helped by the German Consulat, but by the the Consulat's driver moneywise from his privat pocket, people I even didn`t know (and people I knew in advance didn't help), and some religuous organisation sending me back home via Singapore and London. And whereever I asked I got help, a free coffee a Heathrow-Stopover, even 3 free lunchboxes when leaving the plane at my final destination. - And nobody there for a warm wellcome or a nice hallo after arriving in Munich. Cold as ice - sometimes 'till today. To make a good story short: I learned that hospitality, sharing and even giving away some privacy and security means getting so much back, things that don't belong in this materialized world of "what do I get when I give-mentality"-enthusiats. They definitively don't swing on the same tone than I do, believe it or not.

Teach, Learn, Share

... "are swinging on the same tone". Hope you know what I'm talking about: either it will happen or it wouldn't happen, that's my experience. And whereever I enter a different continent I meet these people, as long as I'm swinging as well. And I learned that whereever you go there are people allready in place and if not, I can wait 'till they arrive in a minute. And waiting gives you time to calm down and sometimes allows you to have a "helicopter"-view of the scenery and your place in time. I like these overview-moments when I'm traveling.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My landlord send me an annex to my written rental-agreement in springtime 2014 not to host CouchSurfers any more (penalty: cancellation of my rental-contact). I had been shocked by this menthality and any discussion gives me the one-and-only-chance to move to another place. - Other than physically couchsurfing I can offer all the other parts of hospitality and assistance I practiced with more than ahoundred guests in the past (and only surfing the couch of Lorena in Brencone/Italy by now).

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Germany, Indonesia, United Kingdom

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