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Overview

  • 25 references 21 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Polish; learning Russian, Spanish
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • starting being a medical doctor
  • medical university in Warsaw
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

ABOUT ME

I'm a 28 y.o. medical doctor. Travelling as far as I can is what I'm looking for. I enjoy big cities and wild mountains as well. Sometimes will walk with no break for 16hrs or ride a bike about 300km and sometimes it's the best to stay almost whole day in bed for me.

I'm living together with my wife and we're both involved in medicine. We have also 2 kids (2013 and 2015) and because of them our guests have to accept 'quiet' evenings.

Because of night shifts and our active life in general it's much more better for us to receive last-minute requests than plan everything for a month in advance - please write to us less than a week before arrival!

OUR SOUTH AMERICA BLOG: wandegryszki.blogspot.com
(use "Translate me" option :-))

PS. my wife is somewhere on CS as well

PHILOSOPHY

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

like travelling and want to help people, who like travelling as well

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've travelled a lot and met with many Surfers already in Europe, Asia and Africa. I always try to make a good impression of CS, don't use any of my hosts's thing when I don't have to. I'm not using place where I sleep as a hostel, and try to spend time with people I visit.

I host people also in my house and like to have all things on place, after guests depart.
Till now my experience is 100% Positive!!
The best was looking for a host in Germany - I got posotive answer from Dusseldorf, before I finished sending my requests :)

If you want to surf with my couch please notice, that hosting people isn't neutral for our activities. I'd like do help (with planning, tickets, shopping, reparing...), show places around or just let you to use my washing mashine - if you were for 2 weeks in the mountains and every piece of your clothes smells after adventure, or just did 1000km by bike and want just to rest in bed for 4 days :)

But I really hate, when guests come late without notice, drunk, go out in the night to 'meet somebody' and depart early morning to 'next couch'.
I want to get from CS also something so if you don't plan to give anything (not material thing, but experience I mean) type 'hostel + Tübingen' in google and will definitely find better place for you activities.

And the last type a word: 'Wanderer' anywhere in the request just to let me know, that you read something about me. I know, that it's little stupid, but it's really better to write a short request with that word, than sending me an essay, about how ideal would I be as a host...information about you I can read from your profile.

long-distance TRAVELLERS WELCOME !!!
KIDS WELCOME !!!

Interests

Medicine :-) (especially surgery), Rock music, travelling, popular science, skiing (ski-touring), rock and mountain climbing, cycling, plane spotting

  • flying
  • traveling
  • blogging
  • music
  • rock music
  • cycling
  • skiing
  • rock climbing
  • medicine
  • science
  • study abroad
  • mountains
  • last minute travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Currently watching: Star Wars, House MD
reading: Lem

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

3 weeks in Iran on Summer 2009, climbing Damavand (5671m). Erasmus in Gießen (Germany, 2009/2010). Bike trip to Italy with my girlfriend (2500km in 6 weeks, Rome captured!). Riding on bike through Vietnam and Cambodia in 2012. Flying with Ryanair from Mardid to Gdansk via London and Frankfurt in one day for less than 10 eurocents :DDD Climbing Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa group) in August 2011 with my girlfriend, who were 1st time in the Alps :)
Riding 17'800 kms through South America with my wife on 125cc motorbikes

Teach, Learn, Share

visited 42 states (18.6%)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Poland, United Kingdom

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