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Overview
About Me
UPDATE 2026: I’m back on the road, I've bought a one way ticket back to my motherland: Colombia. I've been craving this adventure for too long.
My objectives: to rediscover my own roots, to reconnect to latin culture, to meet and explore endless possibilities of myself through others, to collect conversations that have the power to change, to fall in love with life and nature, to see where the road takes me.
Whilst on the road, I want to achieve writing the draft of a book, read, read, read, workout, learn some Portuguese, push my limits and explore. I'm as open as the road itself.
The final goal of this trip is to arrive to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil being number 2 on my top dream countries to visit (India being number 1)).
Because of the nature of this slow paced trip, dates are blurred, starting on March 24th, some stops, but not limited to are:
COLOMBIA - Medellin → Cali → Popayán → Pasto
ECUADOR - Ibarra → Otavalo → Quito → Misahuallí → Loja
PERÚ - Piura → Trujillo → Lima → Nazca → Huaraz → Arequipa → Cuzco
BOLIVIA - La paz → Sucre → Santa Cruz → San José de Chiquitos
BRASIL - Corumbá → Foz do Iguaçu → Florianópolis → Sao Paolo → Paraty → Rio
Hit me up if you're on the road too! Or if you have any recommendations, or if you're a lovely host open to welcome me in their home. ❤️
ABOUT ME
Back in 2010 me and my partner at the time embarked on a 4 month adventure that would mark and shape the rest of my life. At 16yo, with almost no money but a hunger to discover other forms of life far from capitalistic ideals, we hitch-hiked across Europe, passing by 10 countries from Spain to Italy, through the Alpes, central Europe and ending in the UK.
With a guitar that fed us along the road and the amazing CS community we made it to the British capital where adult life began.
Once you conquer a dream like that at such a young age, you feel invincible, you dream big.
I lived 12 years in London, where I worked, studied, made a career for myself and formed an entire life from scratch, found a chosen family and then left it all again to make a new life in Barcelona and later again in Paris.
16 years later, I’m currently in Paris, plotting, contemplating and manifesting what’s next for me. After a career in the most consumeristic industries out there, burnt out and creatively drained, I’m once again intrigued by other ways of living, open to exploring, discovering what else is there and embarking on a new journey… tbc.
For now open to meet new people, locals and travellers. Always down to practice some French, drink tea, walk, cycle around, practice some sport together or throw a wild party.
Non smoker. Sober curious but nevertheless rarely say no to a bar, social event, party or rave.
I love adventure, hiking, exploring the wild, and being around or in water.
Citizen of the world, a traveller, perhaps a philosopher in a previous life. Always questioning, sometimes overthinking, hopefully growing.
I'm loyal, kind, honest and warm hearted.
Queer, Veggie, Cyclist, Cat daddy, Crossfiter (but in a non culty way) 🏳️🌈🌱🚴🏼🐈🐈⬛🏋🏼♂️
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
Although I've never been able to host, I've had experiences through this community that I keep close to my heart.
I would love to one day embark on a new trip to rediscover life.
Always down to meet great people, hear stories and show people around the city I'm in and vice versa.
Interests
Fan of music and books (physical CDs and paper books)
Love cooking veggie meals
Sports (cycling, gym, crossfit, bouldering, gymnastics...)
Writing
Learning all sort of new things, exploring new cultures
Photography
The Arts
Fashion (mostly as a tool to shape culture)
- arts
- books
- fashion
- beer
- vegetarian
- crossfit
- clothing
- traveling
- music
- guitar
- hiking
- swimming
- tea
- gym
- queer
- farming
- queer culture
Music, Movies, and Books
MUSIC
Very wide music taste, tend to lean into dreamy, soft music but always open for new discoveries, also into experimental, dance, electronic and R&B. Depending on the mood, down for pop, funk, salsa reggaeton and even rancheras.
(FKA Twigs, Kelela, The XX, Fever Ray, Jorja Smith, Royksopp, Perfume Genius, Robyn, Lana…)
MOVIES
From gore horror, to drama, comedy. Love a good dystopian / utopian sci-fi and twisted plots
(Xavier Dolan, Yorgos Lanthimos, Guillermo del Toro, Miyazaki, J.A. Bayona, Taika Waititi, Almodovar, Guadagnino…)
BOOKS
Non-fiction novels & poetry.
(Hermann Hesse, Murakami, Miranda July, Sylvia Plath, André Gide, Coelho…)
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Orchestrate fashion shows
Teach, Learn, Share
I'd love to:
Learn Portuguese (followed by Arabic & Japanese)
See the world
Learn more arts & crafts
Learn about agriculture and farming
Try out calisthenics
Push the limits of physical performance
Practice & learn all kind of dance
Learn to drive
What I Can Share with Hosts
I can share with you:
English, Spanish, French and some Italian
Sewing & pattern cutting
Recipes
Workouts
Life stories from different parts of the world
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Colombia, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States