"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." -Kurt Vonnegut

I'm Maxim, a currently 22 years old philosophy student living in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. I love music, hanging out with friends, tasting good beers or wines, cooking (and eating, obviously!), nature and photography, travelling and many other things.

In February 2016 I embarked on a great hitchhiking tour of (Eastern) Europe and beyond and hitched and surfed all the way to Iran, ending up with around 13,000 hitchhiked kilometres through 19 different countries.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love travelling, meeting new people, and sharing experiences, and this seems like a great way of doing that! (That was cliché, wasn't it?)

Interests

Music, philosophy, photography, meeting new people, languages, cultures, travelling (who on earth is on Couchsurfing and doesn't like travelling?), food, more food, wine, more wine, (special) beer, more beer, and a lot I'm not aware of yet: so if you've got something you think is interesting enough to share, don't hesitate to tell me!

• photography
• concerts
• music festivals
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• politics
• traveling
• music
• history
• languages
• philosophy
• hitchhiking
• 70s music
• 60s music

Music, Movies, and Books

A LOT of music, nowadays mostly progressive rock, basically anything from the 60s and 70s, anything psychedelic and experimental and some leftovers from when I used to listen to metal exclusively. Some examples (in no particular order) are: Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, King Crimson, Camel, Pink Floyd, The Doors, John Martyn, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Leonard Cohen, Jefferson Airplane, Dark Tranquillity, Tame Impala, Riverside, Leprous, Parov Stelar, Ulver, Son Lux, Guthrie Govan, Santana, Radio Moscow, zZz, Neurosis, Cult of Luna and now I'm going to call it quits because this list could go on forever, so if you really want to know more you should just have a look at my last.fm profile: http://www.last.fm/user/maxim1110

Books: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, Nikolai Gogol, Boris Pasternak
Films/series: Apocalypse Now, True Detective, Justified, Fargo, Coen Brothers films, Fight Club, V for Vendetta, Luther, Lord of the Rings

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhike 2600 km from Nijmegen to Istanbul in 5 days to visit my best friend.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A lot of stories, a lot of music, my friends tell me I'm a good cook so a lot of food, and I can bring you some local beer! It'd be pretentious to say I can share wisdom, but I do study philosophy so if you're interested in that I definitely can hold endless monologues about people who were certainly a lot wiser than I am ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands