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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Follow my intuition/heart
ABOUT ME
I'm always happy to get new experience, meet people, listen to their stories, work out my brain to be able to understand a bit more this complicated human nature, and life in general. I love to travel and not plan everything from A to Z but do things spontaneously, as it gives a wonderful feeling of freedom and is simply much more fun. I like taking my camera on trips - it's always a great companion. Art in general is something that is always part of my life - lately, I try to focus on illustrations (I never grew out of children's books). I just love going to bookshops or second hand shops and going through books (with no time limit) in search of stories or illustrations to find that one incredible gem...Apart from that, I love to be surrounded by bighearted people who appreciate and respect the spiritual part of life, nature and animals.
PHILOSOPHY
" I don't just want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally."
Zelda Fitzgerald
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Once I'm at home - the door to my house is always open for CS members. It's great having You around! I also had the possibility to spend a lovely time surfing - a big thank you to everyone who had me as their guest!
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
One of the greatest Couchsurfing exeperience I had was in Rome. Our host was a wonderful person who left us the keys to his apartment in the centre of the city. He took amazing care of me and my friend - one morning he woke us up with a smell of italian espresso and a croissant saying "breakfast is surved". Thank You so much for that:)
Interests
Illustrations, photography, graphic design (art in general), travelling, holistic approach to health and natural ways of healing, good music, flea marckets, nature, spiritual part of life, hiking, animals...
- animals
- arts
- books
- design
- graphic design
- photography
- illustrations
- traveling
- painting
- music
- hiking
- spirituality
- holistic health
- fairytales
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies:
"The Mermaid" Anna Melikyan, "Empty House" Kim Ki-Duk,
"The Story of the Weeping Camel" Byambasuren Davaa,
Luigi Falorni, "The Moomins", "The Reader" Stephen Daldry, "La Strada" Fellini, "The Dictator" Ch. Chaplin, "Night on Earth" Jim Jarmusch ...
Music:
Maok, Björk, Nneka, Monika Brodka, Temples, Celtic music, Django Reinhardt, Emmet Ray, Goran Bregovic, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Sigur Ros, Yann Tiersen, The Church, Book of Silk, Joanna Newsom, Aurora......
Books:
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" J.W.von Goethe
"The Alchemist" Paulo Coelho
"The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The Cinnamon Shops", "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass" Bruno Schulz
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey
"Heban", "Imperium" Ryszard Kapuściński
"The Hobbit" J.R.R. Tolkien
"Anastasia" Vladimir Megre
"Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings" Marko Pogacnik
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Swimming with the sharkes in Florida. Maybe I should add that it wasn't anything that tourists pay for - it was an accident....Thankfully I'm still in one piece ;) ...
Teach, Learn, Share
I will be happy to exchange some artistic tastes, do a funcky photo session, get creative and messy with paint, mud, sand or anything we can think of, chat about the hidden spheres of life, holistic health, the birds, the bees, the flowers and the trees... Life gives enough topics!
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, France, Ireland, Poland