I am Noemi, a spanish chef always planning the next trip when I am in the middle of another

Just finished a whole year backpacking South America🇧🇴🇦🇷🇨🇱🇵🇪🇨🇴🇪🇨😁

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing changed my Life.

I met many of the most interesting and kindest people I ever seen in my Life.

I haven't been surfer for long but I went to a lot of meet ups where I found a whole world just ready to be discovered. A group of people Who don't know each other start a conversation in bar in a foreigh country with a :

- "Hi! Where are you from and what are your plans?"

And you found yourself talking for hours about traveling, languages, people...and maybe even traveling partners. I love It. No second intentions but the mutual interest to share an experience, journey or an adventure.

I have been a host a few times when my circunstances have been suitable for surfers. Unfortunately since corona I can see the community had a huge dropped of members.

Interests

Travel, travel and travel some more!! :D

Apart from that of course I like to cook but I am even better eating! Everytime I try something different, I see a new ingredient...wow you can see stars in the eyes hahaha. It doesn´t matter if it seems strange or even disgusting sometimes, you always have to try first! Otherwise...how could you know if you like it or not? :P

I hate routine...it kills me so I prefer the hard way even if is more painful. I prefer to die trying than a boring or unsatisfaying life.

I do really love to do scuba diving but I don´t always have the option. I enjoyed a lot doing in in Phillipines ^^

Other sports that I like are climbing even if not really good in rock but in climbing wall and cycling.

This last one is also a problem in a big city! After 3 years in Netherlands I can say that I really love to go to work by bike instead of any other way, yes, rain included :D

• tattoos
• cooking
• chinese food
• anime
• movies
• cycling
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• adventure travel
• food
• climbing
• horror movies
• netflix
• meet people
• ramen
• cola cao

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I always eat whatever strange thing I see. The most disgusting my friend´s face is, the most I want to try it.

- I can proudly said that I ate hot pot of snake, balut in philliphines, hot spice soup of chicken claws, grilled chicken heart, worns, fried starfish...and so on :D

- My backpacker travel around east asia for 3 months by myself doing couchsurfing

- Driving a scooter in the middle of the night coming back to my hostel in Koh panghan when I don´t even know how to drive...cold sweat all over my neck..that makes you realise how alive you are :O

- Scuba diving with tresher sharks in Malapascua almost touching them. Another time a liveaboard in Similan Islands in Thailand. You wake up, you dive, breakfast, dive, little nap....dive again..Awesome!

- The santiago way from Oviedo in Spain. We decided the travel 3 days earlier. My backpack got broken the first day :D. After 10 years I decided to do it again, this time around the coast...I feel so lucky to be from such a beautiful and rich country on landscapes and gastronomy.

- Manage a kitchen full of chinese people. They didn´t speak english and I didn´t speak mandarin (Huge problem man xD)

What I Can Share with Hosts

As a surfer I can undertand that is a responsability for any host to have someone at their place. We all have our schuledules, jobs or duties.
I am not expecting from my host to be all day with me or going to do any touristic stuff if he/she doesn´t want to but to expend time together talking/cooking/ having a beer and of course having a lot of fun :D

Couchsurfing is not a "free hotel" but an exchange between cultures and people all around the world ^^

I am very easy-going and not picky at all about where to sleep but I would prefer to know in advance instead of where I am already there how it is gonna be.
Apart from that I am good at cooking and sharing histories! hahaha

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, England, Netherlands, Norway, Spain