CURRENT MISSION

Trying to make myself and others happy.

ABOUT ME

Basicly I'm a traveller. The last few years I make many trips to a lot of Asian countries. In the winter I am always in Asia, in the summer in Holland. The last 4 years I live in Vietnam most of the year. My body is old, my mind is very young. I have two children, a daughter (30) who has a master in law, and a son (31) who is working as a economist at a big American company. I'm bored by old-fashioned bourgois-people and I like creative exploring travellers with an open mind for the surrounding world. I really dislike people who think they have the right to judge other people who are different from the mainstream.

PHILOSOPHY

You get what you give...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Heard from friends. And I LOVE the idea of it! Meeting people in my house and when I am traveling!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was a host for:

Ido Gal (Israel) for 7 days in June 2013
Avi Avital (Israel) for 7 days in June 2013
Katie Arnold (United States) for 8 days in June 2013
Adriana Carmona (Mexico) for 5 days in June 2013
Kristine Bitsch (Denmark) for 4 days in juli 2013
Rikke (Denmark) for 4 days in juli 2013
Marika Allely (United States) for 13 days in juli 2013
Celine Berger (United States) for 5 days in juli 2013
Diane/Funkylager (Belgium) for 2 days in juli 2013
Laurence Gauthier (Canada) for 5 days in August 2013
Wei Hsuan Lee (Taiwan) for 4 days in October 2013
Ching-Ya Huang (Taiwan) for 5 days in November 2013.
Sonia Drioli (Italy) for 2 days in November 2013
Lisa Puccini (Italy) for 3 days in November 2013
Piia Sipari (Finland) for three days in November 2013
Rubi Gordillo (Guatamala) for 7 days in November 2013
Sidney Thompson (United States) for 6 days in December 2013
Rikki Srichanskij (United States) for 8 days in Januari 2014
Mengyao Lu (China) for 3 days in July 2014
Michelle Hodas (Germany) for 5 days in July 2014
Eileen Zeller (Germany) for 7 days in August 2014
Sandy Rodger (Austria) for 4 days in August 2014
Rikki Srichanskij (United States) for 14 days in October 2014
Rikki Srichanskij (United States) for 29 days in November 2014
Rikki Srichanskij (United States) for 28 days in December 2014
Rikki Srichansky (United States) for 321 days in jan-nov 2015
Omar Alexis Constantino (Mexico) for 4 days in july 2016
Giovanny Zepeda (Mexico) for 4 days in july 2016
Joshua Vargas (Mexico) for 4 days in july 2016
Humberto MG (Mexico) for 4 days in july 2016
Sylvie (Zwitserland) for 3 days in august 2016
Nathanaël (Zwitserland) for 3 days in August 2016
Annemarie Rosenstock (Germany) for 3 days in August 2016
Udo Rosenstock (Germany) for 3 days in August 2016
Maike (Germany) for 3 days in August 2016
Géraldine Daneau (Belgium) for 3 days in August 2016
Juhye Kim (Republic of Korea) for 10 days in August 2016
Larisa Rodionova (Khanty-Mansi Area, Russia) for 1 day in August 2016
Timoer (Khanty-Mansi Area, Russia) for 1 day in August 2016
Annemarie Rosenstock (Germany) for 8 days in januari 2017
Lukas Hørstmann (Germany) for 8 days in januari 2017
Elisabeth Leitner (Austria) for 4 days in juli 2017
Marlon (Croatia) for 4 days in juli 2017
Cristoph Schorno (Switserland) for 3 days in juli 2017
Daniella Dunst Gross (Switserland) for 3 days in juli 2017
Emma Liet (France) for 5 days in August 2017
Jieun Kim (North Korea) for 5 days in August 2017
Oanh (Vietnam) for 3 days in August 2017
Giang Nguyen (Vietnam) for 4 days in April 2018
Thu Trinh (Vietnam) for 4 days in April 2018

So the surfers who came in my house came came from: United States (9) Germany (9) Mexico (5) Austria (5) Swiss (4) Vietnam (3) Israël (2) Italy (2) Taiwan (2) Belgium (2) Russia (2) Denmark (2) South-Korea (2) North-Korea (1) Canada (1) China (1) Finland (1) Guatamala (1) Croatia (1) French (1)

And the amount of days that surfers were sleeping in my house: United States (422) Germany (37) Mexico (21) South-Korea (15) Israel (14) Swiss (12) Vietnam (11) North-Korea (10) Taiwan (9) Denmark (8) Austria (8) Guatamala (7) Belgium (5) Canada (5) Italy (5) French (5) Croatia (4) China (3) Finland (3) Russia (2)

(BIJGEWERKT TOT 1/1/2018)

My hosts were:

Trang Nguyen (Vietnam) for 11 days in februari 2014
Tuan Tran Ngoc (Da Nang, Vietnam) for 48 days in march/april 2014
Shyam Priah (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) for 9 days in december 2015
Shyam Priah (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) for 10 days in january 2016

Interests

Politics, history, travelling, riding my motor, my dog...

• politics
• traveling
• economics
• history
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

(Russian) Literature, thrillers, sometimes a whodunnit. The Beach!! (Not the film, only the book!) Good films (seldom a "blockbuster"). Solaris !(the first one, not the remake!). The godfather 1&2, Se7en, Stalker, once upon a time in the West, The sixth sense, Dancing with wolves, Apocalypse Now, No Country For Old Men, Slum dog millionaire, The Road etc. Sometimes classical music (Mattheus Passion) but mostly music from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Stones, Queen, Kinks, David Bowie, Bob Marley, etc etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My motortrip through the warzone of Serbia, Bosnia/Herzogowina, Croatia and Kosovo. What a destruction!
But also: the warm shower of friendlyness in Asia.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to learn new things from other people, but also like to "teach" what my ideas are.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Smiles, company, drinks, good conversations, music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Laos, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Indonesia, Netherlands, Viet Nam