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Overview

  • 38 references 29 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in French; learning English, German, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Deck Stew - Yachting Industry
  • Applied Languages (courses from distance in Paris)
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSIONs

* Travelling to Mexico whenever I can have time off from my job ( deck/ stew on sailing and motor yachts )
* Get passive incomes from the Internet ( tiktok is one of my current project, you're free to follow me : @purplespleen )

* 3 years ago, I achieved my dream and crossed the PACIFIC OCEAN only by sailboat from ECUADOR to NEW ZEALAND. It took me 5 months and a half, it felt long at times but now I feel like it was nothing! From the 13th May to the 25th October 2018!
I went through all these cool places : Galapagos, Marquesas, Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tonga on the way. You could say it was hitchhiking, sail hitching, hitch sailing but I had to share all the expenses most of the time. Sailing is rarely for free :)

Before that, I have spent the entire winter season in Antigua (5 months in total) working on yachts and enjoying my life.

* Back in 2016, my main mission was to work on boats and live a different life than my previous one : desk job - call center job - and waiting for the week end and see how much money I have left after paying my rent. TURNED OUT WELL, I worked as a deck stew on a 60m classic sailing yacht and on a modern yacht 30m and freelanced on around 15 different boats in the Caribbean for 5 months!

From 2018 to now I've been working on boats and chilling (and surviving during covid times), spent a whole lot time in Antigua (the Caribbean island) and really like the island pace of life.

If you are interested in reading about my adventures (how I got into yachting, please feel free to go on my blog : https://purplespleen.exposure.co )

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

En étant moi même.
Wenn Ich selbst bleibe.
By staying true to myself.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted :
In Lyon
1. Lars et Lily (Netherlands + Denmark (Hong Kong))
2. Eduard (Germany)
3. Theo (France - Montpellier)
4. Greg et Nikki (Hungary-Ukraine)
5. Miles et Vicky (Irelande + Austria)

In Berlin
6. Jeremy (France - Nantes)
7. Elisa (Germany - Kiel)
8. Enesa & Anna Flora (Graz - Austria)
9. Michael (Russia)
10. Chris and Seb (England)

In Lyon again :
11. Amine (France, Nantes)
12. Benjamin (USA, New Jersey)
13. Hayoung (Korea)
14. Andrew (Uk)
15. Guillermo (Alicante)
16. Francia (Santiago)

They did host me :

1. Didier (France - Houilles)
2. Guillaume (France - Puteaux) * 2 :D
3. Benjamin (Nîmes - France)
4. Ussman (Woodstock Festival in a tent in Poland)
5. Patrick (München)
6. Matthias and Karolina (München)
7. Cédric (Biarritz)
8. Jochen (Lausanne)
9. Yann (Clermont Ferrand)
.... not up to date yet

Interests

Guitare, chant, sport, faire la fête, bières, partager... YOGA

Guitar, Singing, Sports, Parties, Beers, to share... YOGA

Music, Movies, and Books

Charlie - Stephen King
Les fleurs captives (Flowers in the Attic) - Virginia Andrews
The alchemist - Paulo Coelho

TV show : MACGYVER 1985 and reboot 2016

Movie : The Wave

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Work on board a 60 meters sailing yacht and experience life and death as I have never experienced them. This is sad but extraordinary I guess.

Teach, Learn, Share

Guitar, languages, sailing

What I Can Share with Hosts

Smiles, small salty stories, songs, laughs :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Martinique, Panama, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Antigua and Barbuda, France, Germany

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