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Overview

  • 32 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Koenraad: Visual artist/printmaker - Els: teacher
  • Master of arts
  • From Hasselt, Belgium
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

travel the world

ABOUT ME

keen to see, learn, experience.
I'm a friendly vegan.

PHILOSOPHY

it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you didn't do /
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We will offer anybody a place to stay when possible.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

lots of experience surfing couches, some through the community, some outside couch surfing. Never had a bad experience.

Interests

art (printmaking, drawing, super-8, photography,...) traveling/hitch-hiking, film, reading, music, skateboarding, juggling, subcultures, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, minorities.

Els: sports, nature, wildlife.

  • wildlife
  • arts
  • photography
  • dancing
  • vegan
  • reading
  • traveling
  • juggling
  • drawing
  • music
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • skateboarding
  • sports
  • anthropology
  • sociology
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Koenraad : movies: Gummo (Harmony Korine), The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee), Long Gone (2003 Jack Cahill)
David Eberhardt), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964 Kubrick), anything Lynch, Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch), B-movies and exploitation...

books: Crime and Punishment (Dostojevski), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck), 1984 (George Orwell), the master and margarita (Bulgacov).
music: wide interest from Jazz, Blues, indie to rock'n roll, Punk, Post-punk...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

sleeping outside at Zurichersee in Switzerland. Found most beautiful spot to sleep with a view over the town and the lake. We decided to name it Hobo Hotel ;)

building mud-houses with and for Burmese refugees.

Teach, Learn, Share

juggling, skateboarding,where to sleep outside while traveling, vegan kitchen.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, China, Congo, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovenia, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Portugal, Thailand

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