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Overview

  • 9 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish; learning French
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Bicycle frame mechanical designer
  • Tech universities: WUT, UTBM, PoliMi, UPC
  • From Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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About Me

CURRENTLY : Recently I've finished my adventurous student life, came back to Poland and finished my master thesis to start work and chill out in a lovely village few kilometers from Przasnysz.

I love traveling, I have started hitchhiking around Europe after my first Erasmus exchange period, during which I've studied for one year in Belfort, France. Due to post-erasmus depression after few years I've enrolled for my second Erasmus (Milan) and third (Barcelona).
I'm open to all cultures and enjoy meeting new people.
I'm easliy excited, but not easily satisfied ;)

"Those who dream by night wake to find that all was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes and make it all reality" - T.E. Lawrence

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to improve my language skills (especially french) by speaking with other people. I enjoy listening to other people stories. I open my home when I can! I've randomly hosted many people, not only from CS. I host people from time to time when I'm not travelling. When I'm travelling I rarelly look for a host, usually I take my tent or I sleep in my van. Though it's nice to have a guide and friend to help each other save time and money while not being bored and lonely when in a foreign place.

Couchsurfing is about more than just a place to sleep, even though that is a great benefit. I enjoy spending time with couchsurfers hanging out and doing whatever we can come up with.

Interests

I am a young engineering graduate, master degree student, passionate of cycling (MTB, road and cyclocross), buying rare bikes around europe, meeting new people with other cultural background, freedom, honesty, pretty girls, cool dudes, new foods, nature, travel, hitchhiking, pretty much any sports, camping, small fires, nice views, cooking together and lots of things like that :D

  • yoga
  • traveling
  • outdoor activities
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • skiing
  • study abroad
  • watersports
  • water
  • wild camping
  • karma
  • positivity

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm not too picky about music, I enjoy rock and metal, but also club music when I go out with friends.
About books, I love science fiction, mostly from less known authors.
Movies - comedy, action, SF, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiked from Poland to Greece during the coldest february ever (-10*C all the time).
Slept in a scary, abandoned chapel in Rome during a storm.
Crossed Pyrenean mountains from Atlantic to Mediterrean sea in 10 days on a road bike.
2017 - Cycled 300km on a road bike during one day (12h) from Warsaw to Cracow.
2019 - Cycled 350km on a road bike during one day (14h) from Warsaw to Gdańsk.
Surfing in the moonlight in Taiwan.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have vast knowledge in bike mechanics, which I enjoy to share.
I would love to see your brain working while your phone is sitting instead of you sitting while your phone is working ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Past stories from hitchhiking trips and bike adventures. Also polish cuisine ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Morocco, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy, Poland, Spain

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