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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
every journey starts with a dream:)
ABOUT ME
well, I'm really easy-going person, who love travelling and mountains - especially Polish ones:) I can't sit long in one place so I often change my place of living:)
I love exotic travels - to South-East Asia or South America. Nowhere else you can meet so much difference between cultures, it's really educational experience:) when I travel, I like to try everything which is special for certain country. I love tasting strange food, the more strange the better ;D (so far - taiwanese food:P)
PHILOSOPHY
" Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
"A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable."
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Travels with Herodotus
"...podroz to cos wiecej niz przemieszczanie sie z miejsca na miejsce, niz turystyka (wlasciwie rozwoj turystyki, jak umasowienie kazdej wartosci, zbanalizowal, zwulgaryzowal sacrum podrozy). Podroz to owocne przekazywanie swiata, zglebianie jego tajemnic i prawd, szukanie odpowiedzi na pytania, ktore on stawia. ..."
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I don't have my own apartment so it's quite difficult... Hosting people in a dorm it's not easy. So I mainly showed couchsurfers around Krakow and tried to show them my city from Polish - not a tourist - point of view. :)
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Only positive!!!:D I couchsurfed in Greece, in Vienna, on Crete,in Salamanca, in Portugal (Lisbon, Aveiro) and few times in Taiwan. I was a host one time. And I had some beers and little bit of sightseeing with couchsurfers in Krakow.
I couchsurfed:
Irini in Athens (2011)
Katerina in Korinthos (2011)
Sarah in Vienna (2012)
Maria in Chania (2012)
Angeliki in Heraklion (2012)
Rhaul in Aveiro (2012)
Antonio in Salamanca (2012)
Aby in Taipei (2013)
Jim in Hualien (2013)
Danny in Vienna (2013)
Ahmet in Budva (2013)
I hosted:
Kasia (2012)
Interests
Travelling - definitely my number one.
After that... long nothing:P
zumba, fitness, running - all kind of exercises:)
Books, different ones, fantasy, romance, diaries, adventure, everything it seems to be interesting
Music - rock
Piano - I used to play piano a lot, now I'm doing it from time to time
Cycling - for me the best way to travel around a city
Cooking exotic meals ( but I'm not really a good cook though:P But everyone has to try!:)
- books
- dining
- cooking
- beer
- fitness
- running
- zumba
- drinking
- traveling
- music
- piano
- cycling
- sailing
- hitchhiking
- sightseeing
- mountains
Music, Movies, and Books
Music - Kings of Leon, Killers, Adel - lately:) Areosmith, Sting, RHCP - since I remember
Movies - classic tear-jerkers ( Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Ps. I love you,Marley and Me ) , everything with Hugh Grant
Books - mainly Polish ones
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
my two trips through North and South India and hitchhiking for 3 weeks (4077km ) through Czech, Austria, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia, Slovenia and Slovakia and all those amazing people I've met on our way - These three are definitely the most amazing things I have done in my entire live!
Falling stars on Dalmatian coast
Atmosphere in Mostar
Sarajevo!!!
The night sky on Thar desert
The moon and the view of Mt. Kinabalu in Borneo.
Listening to Fado on the banks of Rio Douro and drinking Porto in Oporto.
Tasting Pasteis de Belem in Lisbon
Malaysian night market
Taroko scooter ride in Taiwan
Wandernig alone on Caoling Historic Trail and admiring coastal scenery...
Living in Taiwan... and much much more :)
Teach, Learn, Share
I can play piano - can teach you if you have one;)
I can cook a little bit (or try to cook:) ) some polish or asian dishes :)
I can share with you my experience from other travels, if you're interested:)
Countries I’ve Visited
Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Samoa, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine
Countries I’ve Lived In
France, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan