Currently raising a small baby and living in Mannheim, Germany after many twists and turns.

CS is important for me because it is full of people that are alive. The less people have, the more they share, the less fearful they are. Living a simple life, even if I have money enough to buy comfort, helps me keeping in touch with reality and appreciating good things when they come my way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

CS Paris Rendez Vous July 2011
CS Italy summer camp August 2012

I hosted and surfed more than my profile shows.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

GUEST

2008
Wroclaw - 1 host - 2 nights (HC)
Krakow - 1 host - 3 nights
Budapest - 1 host - 3 nights
Zagreb - 1 host - 2 nights (HC)
Liverpool - 1 host - 5 nights
2009
Luton, UK - 1 host - 1 night
Cambridge - 1 host - 4 nights
Crawley, UK - 1 host - 1 night
2011
Paris - 1 host - 1 night
Faro, PT - 1 host - 2 nights
2012
London - 2 hosts - 4 nights
Mumbai - 2 hosts - 4 nights
Madurai, Tamil Nadu - 1 host - 1 night
Locorotondo, Puglia - 1 host - 1 night
Trani, Puglia, 1 host - 5 nights
2013
Eindhoven, NL - 2 hosts, 2 nights
Leuven, BE - 1 host, 2 nights

HOST

2010 London - 3 guests - 6 nights
2011 Oxford - 5 guests - 7 nights
2013 Brussels - 3 guests - 4 nights

Interests

Bikes, boats, reading, football, chatting, people, guitar (haven't played for a while).

• boating
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• camping
• soccer
• paragliding

Music, Movies, and Books

Pretty much everything I can get my hands on, which can teach me something about people and society

I LOVED:

- Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Siddartha
- The Power of Now
- 4 Hour Week
- Death With Interruptions
- The Great War for Civilisation
- They F**K you up...a Survival Family Guide

Movies: Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, Trainspotting, Tuesdays with Morrie, 7 Deadly Sins, Die Hard 3, A man on the Moon, Shawshank, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I also like very much season

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Being part of Cambridge University and working on a boat in the river Cam

- Driving across Laos and Cambodia on a motorbike

- Angkor Wat temples

- Snowdonia, Wales in a sunny day

- Cambrian Coast Line in Wales

- Geres, N Portugal

- Paragliding course in Kamshet, India

- Living on a boat in London

I appreciate the small details of life so sometimes I really enjoy something simple as a walk, a nice chat, a beautiful landscape. All these can be amazing to me and I have experienced too many to mention

Teach, Learn, Share

Everything we do uses energy. Most of that energy comes from extremely dirty sources, which cause climate change. Renewables can maybe provide 20-30% of the energy needs of most rich countries. Even this will be hard to achieve. We need something else and we need a lot of it. There are no easy solutions. Read some chapters of Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air and you will know more about Energy than most politicians, journalists and environmentalists

I want to learn... everything I can!

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