CURRENT MISSION

Travelling abroad in April/May 2010, no couch available before June, sorry :)

ABOUT ME

I'm a French guy who lives and works in Budapest since October 2008. Before that, I spent 8 years in crazy Paris, welcomed a lot of CSers :) and travelled a lot in Europe.

I'm now enjoying this nice city, with my charming wife, and life is going pretty well :). Visit us if you don't know Budapest, you'll understand!

As far as work is concerned, I'm basically an IT engineer turned into a web-and-more "worker" (and willing to become a freelancer). Time will tell! :)

PHILOSOPHY

1- Never forget your big trekking bag, it's your best friend for every trip. It will carry your sleeping bag, that's your second best friend.
2- Never plan too much. Go on and take it easy, life will drive you.
3- Always keep a bootle of red wine in one of your bag's pockets, it may save you if you don't speak your host's language ;).
4- ALWAYS eat all the food one gives you, that's the best way to discover a country!
5- Never forget what a lucky bastard you are to travel and meet with people. Never complain, even if you took a bus going 40km/h in the very countryside of Belarus, taking 12h to cover 380km, and breaking down just before the end, at 3.00am, in the middle of nowhere...
6- Never thank God, he has nothing to do with your business, but say a hundred times "thanks!" to this old and dirty guy who gave you a lift for 15 minutes when it was -15°C...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Before using CouchSurfing.com, I got many "free" couch surfing experience all over Europe.
Eastern and Central Europe is my favourite area. I went many times to Poland, as some very good friends of mine live there. I remember a weekend with more than 10 people in small flat, in the very Center of Warsaw (Novy Swiat street ;). It was just unforgetable!

Interests

- Europe... My friends are spread on the whole continent, I do feel European and I love it! But of course if you're from another part of the world you're also welcome! ;)
- geopolitics and history from 1945 to nowadays, especially on what concerns Russia and former USSR countries;
- fight for democracy and for a free press
- a lot of other much more happy topics ;), like traveling and discovering place I didn't know, just to feel I'm alive...

• dining
• wine
• red wine
• traveling
• surfing
• business
• engineering
• freelancing
• geopolitics
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: (mostly French-speaking artists/groups) Mano Solo, Brassens, Renaud, -M-, Tryo, Barbara, Zazie, Les Hurlements de Léo, Padam, Lynda Lemay, Benabar, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Nougaro, and many others...
Music again: a bit of jazz sounds (Pink Martini, Duke Ellington, ...), a bit of good old US sounds (Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, etc.) and some more energetic tunes: No Smoking Orchestra, old Ska songs, etc...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went to Minsk, Belarus with 3 friends, without nowing a word of Russian;
Spent 5 months there, learnt the language, and met dozens of people from the whole world...
Just one of my best experiences.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, France, Hungary

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