CURRENT MISSION

Planning the next trip

ABOUT ME

While travelling I like to mingle with local people. I love conversations with people that aren't put off by those with different opinions. I'm intolerant of intolerance.

I have a website where you check what I do as designer:
http://www.nunocoelho.net

PHILOSOPHY

"Mess is bore" (my personal rip off version of "Less is more") and "Think global, act local"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

To host and to get hosted (what else?).

When I travel I tend to be independent, not requiring much attention from my hosts. I expect a bit of the same from my guests.

If you're about to send me a CouchRequest, please fill up the "Why I'd Like to Meet You" section and be specific why you would like to be hosted by me. I won't reply to a generic copy-and-paste request that won't mention anything that you and me might have in common.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All my experiences with couchsurfers are listed in the references bellow. So check it out for full feedback.

Current statistics:
- I hosted nearly 40 people so far
- Around 10 people hosted me so far
- Met a few others just for a coffee or a drink

Interests

Design, Art, Architecture, Photography, Music, Books, Cinema, Travelling, Camping, Trekking/Hikking, Biking, International Politics, Volunteer Work, Talking, Dancing, Smiling

• arts
• books
• architecture
• design
• photography
• dancing
• coffee
• drinking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• volunteer work
• music
• cycling
• camping
• statistics
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: "Blame it on Fidel" by Julie Gavras, "Waltz With Bashir" by Ari Folman, "Iraq in Fragments" by James Longley, "The Headless Woman" by Lucrecia Martel, "In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar Wai, "The Silence" by Ingmar Bergman, "The Constant Gardner" by Fernando Meirelles, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" by Cristian Mungiu, "Darwin's Nightmare" by Hubert Sauper, "The Milk of Sorrow" by Claudia Llosa, "Hunger" by Steve McQueen, "Workingman's death" by Michael Glawogger...

Music: indie and electronica (or in one word: indietronica!)
Animal Collective, Apparat, Arcade Fire, B. Fleischmann, Bjork, Blonde redhead, Coco Rosie, Colder, Crystal Castles, Cut Copy, Digitalism, Fennesz, Foals, Interpol, James Figurine, Junior Boys, Khonnor, Kraftwerk, Lali Puna, LCD Soundsystem, New Order, Notwist, Soulwax, Tujiko Noriko, Vitalic, Whitey...

Books: "What is the What" by Dave Eggers, "Another Day of Life" by Ryszard Kapuscinski, "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, "Istambul" by Orhan Pamuk, "1984" and "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, "Sleepwalking Land" by Mia Couto, "Budapest" by Chico Buarque, "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino, "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer, "No Logo" by Naomi Klein, "Exterminate All the Brutes" by Sven Lindqvist, "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid" by Jimmy Carter, a few by Noam Chomsky... Oh, and does my own book count? It's called "A Land Without People for a People Without Land" and it's a colouring book for grown-ups about Palestine:
http://www.nunocoelho.net/index.php?opcao=4&ling=2&id=52

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've done some pro bono design work for NGOs and non profit institutions in Portugal and the UK and I had an one month volunteer experience working with children in a refugee camp in Palestine.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Portugal

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