I am Forester and semiprofessionel nature photographer. I work for Bavarian Forest administration and I am responsible for the Natura 2000 areas of the counties of Lichtenfels and Coburg which are located in the northern part of Bavaria.
Kristina, my partner is a pediatrician.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We are always interested in the way of living in other countries. We like to have contact to the native people all over the world and we like to get to know people.

Interests

We are interested in nature, travelling and photography.

• photography
• pub crawls
• gardening
• traveling
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

The Tiger (Vaillant); The snowleopard (Matthiesen), Tibet wild (Schaller) , White Wolf (Brandenburg); Himmlers Crusade (Hale); Birds of Paradiese (Laman)
Movies: Gorillas in the mist; Out of Africa; Turtles can fly; A Time for Drunken Horses; Salt of the Earth; Kolibris, Nomads of the wind; Planet Earth; Nanuk -the eskimo ....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I will tell you some amazing things if we will once meet us....

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can share a 200 years old house with a wonderful garden in a wonderful tiny village with very friendly people with two pubs, a river (the upper Main) nearby we can go kajaking and a lake beside where we can go swimming in summertimes.
Seven Kilometers away you find the Fränkische Schweiz. A very nice Jurrasic Area with rocks and very famous areas for rockclimbing. It is an area with one of the highest biodiversity of the whole Germany.

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, India, Kenya, Lithuania, Morocco, Nepal, Norway, Romania, Rwanda, Serbia, Seychelles, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United States, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Rwanda