CURRENT MISSION

IMPORTANT: I will not accept more guests for the next months... Sorry!

If you are not a Only Guest then you must show also the profile of the Second Person in your request
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I live in PORTO, Portugal, and I prefer serene, educated, quiet and smile people, from all over the world.
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Note: GUESTS from UKRAINE may GIVE ME the PASSPORT, till they leaving the room.
I have had a problem with a Ukranian guest which have purposely damage the room, and ran away during the night.
I have communicated the case to the Ukrainian Ambassador in Portugal.
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I want to know better the Big European Home, and all its 40 countries... one by one!!!!
Its cultures, uses, costumes, local people, music, folk, nature, seabeaches, small towns, lakes and rivers.
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By the way:
This site was created to offer free accomodation for travelers with not much money for accomodation . So, if you are a independente person or couple, and you need a place to stay for free, ok you are welcome, as I really like very much to help people who are travelling and I like to have good conversations at night in the dinner time with my guests. Even sometimes I invite my guests to dinner with me. Also I like to give info about my city and my country!
Anyway, you are in traveling time, but I am in working time. So, I can't be your guide in beautiful Porto, as I am working.
If you need to find a host for being your guide in city, then please contact other host!

ABOUT ME

I live in Porto, am a openminded and smile man who loves Traveling, Yoga, Zen, Tantra philosophy, Art, Music, Nature, Photography, Beach, Wines, Local meals, Typical towns, to meet native people, and I love yachting,...
I like adventure, and I have a very wild and independent spirit. Anyway I have a conventional look because my profession, also for the strange persons.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Well, firstly I like traveling, so I like to help travelers in my city. cause I also am a traveler and sometimes I need help of local people in other countries, too :),
Second, I like to help people who are interested in discovering my city.

Interests

Art, cultures, traditions, nature, lakes and rivers. Also little traditional villages and everything about the different Countries and People, mainly inside Europe !
Well, in Portugal I enjoy: Sun, Beach, Nature, Landscapes, Sunset on sand beach, international dishes, portuguese meals, different wines, and... Porto Wine, of course :)

RULES of the HOUSE:
I don't provide bed sheets for less than 3 nights.
The access to the kitchen is temporarily unavailable, as at this moment it is not tidy as I like, anyway I can put your food on fridge.
I smoke on the backside of the house, where I have my private quarters.
During the days that you are my guest, you must arrive in my home at the latest until midnight, for I open the door for you

• traveling
• music
• beaches
• lakes
• nature
• wines
• people
• local food
• typical towns

Music, Movies, and Books

Latin-american music
Italian music
Rock and pop music
Classical music
Zen music
Jazz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once, I was hosted in Latvia in a house where no one of the family spoke English, they spoke Russian and Latvian, and none of us had compatible dictionaries.
So we had "talked" with drawings, gestures and a few loose words in German, with lots of laughs!!! and for three times the lady have called by phone for her student niece to ask her something in Latvian, and give immediately the telephone for me, just for I hear her niece tell me in english what they wanted to said and to ask me!
In that night we have stay "talking" for about 3 hours !!!
I had planned to stay there only one night, but after that I have decided to stay two nights more, because everything was really very very funny.
This was in 2006 (before the Google-translater was been created)

OTHER:
Floating in the Dead Sea reading a page of my book :))

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to teach a little of portuguese language to my hosts!... and I want to know a little about life style in your country.
Tasting different kind of portuguese wines

What I Can Share with Hosts

Sometimes, a friendly smile...
sometimes, a Porto wine...
sometimes, a walking on sandy beach...
sometimes, a dinner...
sometimes, a gift...
it depends :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, Spain