I am a man who's already spend half of his life (well... I hope so !) and knows about the value of each moment of the present time.
A bit less seriously (because I'm never really serious except in my job): I am curious about meeting up new people from abroad to share each other's past experiences - bad or good and laugh at them together.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My appartment is empty one week out of two because my kids are with their mother, so why staying alone when I could meet up interesting people ?

Interests

- My kids, but this is kind of private...
- Hiking, climbing, ski-touring in the Alps, and everywhere in the mountains of this planet.
- Travelling, again and again and discover new ways of living, new cultures, amazing wild landscapes and remote places.
- Photography when travelling: I could spend entire days walking in a city to photograph people and their daily life. Sometimes I ask myself if this would not become a second job one day, or maybe in another life.The thing is I like very much the job I presently have, so why bother at the moment ? ...
- Vipassana meditation and everything related to godless spirituality.

• photography
• meditation
• walking
• traveling
• cycling
• hiking
• skiing
• rock climbing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Fargo, Arizona Dreams, Wintersleep, The Salt of the Earth, Mission (back to 1985 or something !), Kill Bill... and many more I can't remember now plus many SF-movies, old ones (Blade Runner, Dune, the Alien saga) and more recent ones, with a the top, of course: ........ Star Wars !

Books: my favorite authors are John Irving, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Paulo Coehlo, Michel Houellebecq, and some others.

Music: rock and pop, jazz (Keith Jarret Trio, funk jazz), latino music (not talking about Buena Vista Social Club, Eliades Ochoa), arabic music (Natacha Atlas, turkish and north-african, including Touareg style, e.g Tamikrest), and also some unavoidable classics for piano (Nocturnes of Chopin, Debussy, Bach, ...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing to the top of Ama Dablam (Himalaya's Matterhorn) in Nepal
Driving from LA for just one day to see Grand Canyon (and back)
4000 km by bike across Central Asia and Peru

Teach, Learn, Share

Worlwide travelling experiences
Meditation

What I Can Share with Hosts

Advice on what to do/see in the wonderful alpine surroundings of Grenoble city.
Get them to the mountain if I am available.
Amazing stories and pictures from my travels.
Discussing on more serious things related to human beings and humanity.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom