ABOUT ME

I'm a french woman that has been living for almost 20 years in Berlin.
I used to travel a lot. Not so much since 2020. Now I want to discover and try to understand the world again!
Next trip: Pakistan, India, Nepal!
Even if I stay in a hostel, I tend to contact local people just to hang out and ask them all the stupid questions that crossed my mind during the day. When traveling, I'm more interested in the daily life and culture than the touristic highlights.
I have a solid traveling experience, mostly solo with a backpack. I love to think I'm self-sufficient, autonomous and respectful of other people mindsets. I smile a lot for no reason. I'm a social person, but I also enjoy being on my own.

PHILOSOPHY

No rules, just values.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

To be honest I mostly surf (but when I host, I try really hard to do my best).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm totally addicted. I have tried to travel without these last years and it just doesn't feel the same.
Since I have to work sometimes while I'm traveling I may stay at some hotel but I still want to meet up with the locals.
I know this sounds cliché but it is such a great opportunity to get to know a country, its people, culture, history, food and contradictions - so many things that make traveling worth.

兴趣

Music, beer, chess, cigarettes, coffee, politics, vinyl, comics, freeform radio, languages, modern history, brutalist and soviet architecture, cemeteries, swimming, biking, cheese, walking with no destination, sleeping in the grass, urban pick-nick, books.

音乐、电影和书籍

Books
Bolano, Tavares, Hrabal, Pessoa, Mo Yan, Artaud, Orwell, Atwood, Musil, Zola, Aleksievitch, Balzac, Vargas Llosa, Flaubert, Céline, Saramago, Tokarczuk, Bloy, Tchekov, Dostoievski, Yu Hua, Erri De Luca, Garcia Marquez, Aymé, P.K. Dick, Andric, Cioran, T. Bernhardt, Lautréamont, Capek, A. Moore, O. Tezuka, etc.

Music
A lot! Preferably on Vinyl: Punk, No Wave, Blues, Dub, Hip Hop (mostly 90s), Classical (mostly piano, mostly Russian), Anatolian Rock, Congolese Rumba, Folk (American), Rock Steady, Experimental Electronic, Algerian Rai, Ethio-jazz, Slavic Women's Choirs, Bossa nova, Free Jazz, Funk, etc.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Well, I can name a few "amazing things" that i haven't done : been to Cairo without entering the pyramids, to Cusco without getting any close to the Machu Pichu, to China without seeing an inch of the great wall, to Granada without getting tickets for the Alhambra...

教，学，和分享

... Open a beer with a lighter?
I can definitely help you with French (and to a lesser extent with German and English).
I need to practice more in Russian, Turkish and Spanish so I'd be glad to try to have a conversation in these.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I'm a very bad dancer. I am a good listener (I think) and an acceptable chess player.

我游览过的国家

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macao, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

我居住过的国家

Belgium, France, Germany

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