We are myself, my wife, Carli-Ann, and our two daughters, Astrid (10) and Ember (7).
I am an electrical engineer, and my wife is a support worker for people with disabilities. She studied community development in university, and we love to explore the world together with our family, to meet new people and have new experiences and learn about new cultures.

We live in a small house in beautiful Victoria, BC on Vancouver Island, where we love to go camping, hiking, cycling, outrigger canoeing and dragonboating.

Before we had our children, my wife and I travelled to many countries in the world to learn about new places, and have lived, worked and/or studied in Scotland, New Zealand, Ireland, Mexico and Cuba. We have stayed and hosted with couchsurfing and hospitality club many times, and had all good experiences. We are now looking forward to learning with our children about new places, experiences, and people. We used to mostly travel by hitchhiking, but now we have kids!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We have used couchsurfing and hospitalityclub extensively before having kids. Our greatest memories of travelling are made by meeting new people in far away lands :)

We have couchsurfed these countries:
Germany, Poland, Ireland, UK, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Turkey, Sweden, Iceland, France, Spain, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and most recently South Korea with our daughters!

Hospitality club member as well. ALL excellent experiences!

Interests

New places. Hitch hiking. Cycling about. Good friends. Good beer, many more...

• beer
• cycling
• hiking
• sailing
• science
• children

Music, Movies, and Books

Yay! Books!
Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
Some movies are great too.
Music? Yes indeed!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

September 2005, we spent a week on a rustic big old wooden sailing ship off the coast of Elba with 9 Austrians and a dog.

Teach, Learn, Share

We have some Spanish and French language experience, and both of our daughters are in French immersion school.

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can cook or take you out for dinner :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, United Kingdom

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