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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Japanese
  • 37, Other
  • Member since 2010
  • Artist x 2
  • Honours of Fine Arts, DNSEP in Beaux Arts
  • From Australia
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About Me

We are two artists currently living in Lille, france. We like to laugh, enjoy concerts, contemporary art, cinema, books, good beer and wine, sharing, traveling, karaoke and dancing (but aren't necessarily good at either) .

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We've couchsurf'd outside of this website through friends and friends of friends, but through this website we've stayed in Melbourne, Kassel, Coventry, Lille... all were amazing times with fantastic people! It's always an enriching experience.
We couchsurf to meet locals, to make new friends and share different experiences.

As far as hosting goes, we usually have friends visiting us and have hosted a few times through the site too... good times all round!

Interests

Meeting people, FOOOD and we love slow travel, taking our time to get to know a place and the locals there, hunting down a good pub and enjoying some live music. Checking out some art, dancing, hiking, and riding bicycles!

  • arts
  • books
  • contemporary art
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • wine
  • beer
  • pub crawls
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • live music
  • karaoke
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • hunting
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

So, so many books. I'm a sci-fi/fantasy fan (particularly, but not limited to, historical fantasy) and Leo loves fiction.
Films: everything from very experimental to blockbuster... off the top of my head: Deadpool, Le Petit Prince, The Revenant, Pans Labrinth, Trust (Hal Hartley), ...
Music... Theres an occasion for everything. Right now I have on Patti Smith.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We have travelled together through australia, the uk, france and malaysia... so you will have to meet us so we can swap some crazy funny travel stories!

Some things we've done:
a spontaneous trip to croatia,
long distance bike rides,
road trip in australia,
hiking in the Juras,
hitchhiking from Koln to Kassel,
camping everywhere...

Teach, Learn, Share

We like learning and sharing serendipitously through couchsurfing. The questions become apparent in each situation.

What I Can Share with Hosts

We are pretty good cooks (Leo does a mean vege lasagne and I can make a wicked double choc brownie) so we'd be happy to cook for you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Isle of Man, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, United Kingdom

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