CURRENT MISSION

Travel the world, meet wonderful people, have as many adventures as possible and discover more about myself.

ABOUT ME

Traveler, serial reader, sports enthusiastic, peace lover, vegetarian, excited by the unknown. Curious being human, devoted naturalist.

I'm more into the human touch than the ever present human extension called a phone. I'm more into the human connection than the WI-FI signal strength.

PHILOSOPHY

Be good to others and others will be good to you.

Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/reut.silviu

Blog page, where I write about my adventures - http://silviureut.ro/

YouTube Channel, where I post videos from my adventures and my exercise routine - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpgUfETRyhMD5GpI79ooEfQ

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm a newbie for now.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Been hosted once or twice and I returned the favor once.

Interests

Philosophy, psychology, books ,music, travels,people, history, foreign languages and different cultures, writing, vegetarianism, architecture, politics and society, theaters, photography and visual arts in general, sports, healthy eating.

• arts
• writing
• books
• architecture
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• walking
• politics
• tv
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• camping
• cliff jumping
• sports
• swimming
• history
• languages
• psychology
• visual arts
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Waking Life, American Beauty, Into the Wild, Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, The Machinist, Hotel Rwanda, Memento, Trainspotting, The Pursuit of Happyness, All The Invisible Children, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Requiem for a Dream, The Bucket List, Shawshank Redemption, How High, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Forrest Gump, The Way, Tracks, 127 Hours, Everest, The Big Lebowski, Wild, Boyhood, The Book Thief, Dans la Maison, The Tree of Life, Her, American History X and many others.

Music: Of Monsters and Men, Passenger, City and Colour, God is an Astronaut, Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers, The Head and the Heart, Parov Stelar, Riverside, The Cat Empire, Angus and Julia Stone, The National, Luna Amara, Marilyn Manson and many others.

Books: 20 years in Siberia (Romanian book, Anița Nandriș), The Book Thief (Zusak), Never let me go (Ishiguro), The Consolations of the Forest (Amazing Sylvain Tesson), Norwegian Wood (Murakami), The Snow Child (Ivey), Les Miserables (Hugo), Torture the artist (Goebel), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Women (Bukowski), The Year of the Hare (Paasilina), 1984 (Orwell), Animal Farm (Orwell), Brave New World (Huxley), Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), We (Zamiatin), The Man in the High Castle (Philip K Dick), The Perfume (Suskind), The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Wilde), Love in the time of the cholera (Garcia Marquez), The Beauty Thieves (Bruckner), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey), Adam și Eva (Romanian book, Liviu Rebreanu), Sans Famille (Malot), Lord of the Flies (Golding), The Collector (Fowles) and many-many others.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking and camping alone in 2014 in the Romanian Apuseni mountains for a week.

Being interviewed in 2014 by a TV station in Sarajevo, it was really silly.

Swimming in Lake Jarun, in Zagreb, with the ducks, during a heavy rain storm and then having a hot shower stuffed in a very small cabin with 5 other people.

Cycling on the Black Sea Coast in Romania and Bulgaria.

Hitchhiking and traveling alone for 4 months in 2015 through Austria, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Poland and Hungary. I've had the time of my life, meeting amazing people and having unforgettable experiences. My heart aches for the road!

Dancing in the mud during a heavy rain at INmusic Festival, in Zagreb.

Kayaking and some sort of cliff jumping on a river nested between the mountains of Macedonia. T'was eerie!

Sleeping in a small forest on a cliff in Dubrovnik, with the sea under me and the sunset right in front. People pay hundreds of euros for that, I paid nothing. And it was magical.

Hiking in the Romanian Ciucas Mountains during a hail and rain storm. It was amazing among the heavy dark blue clouds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyU2DVVIxwI

Cycling and camping for 5 days through the old Germanic villages of Transylvania, in Romania. Campfire under the moonshine, lakes and old churches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwfVECIlfc

Cycling through Northern Dobrogea, Romania. With the sea close to me, sleeping on the beach and being speechless at sunrise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eVCt1oOSRw

Free falling from an airplane at 4000 meters, with a speed of 200 kilometers per hour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWD5Ikd1Eg

Future plans include hitchhiking through Asia, discovering the Buddhist culture in SE Asia, going to Iran, experiencing India, taking the Transsiberian in Russia, walking El Camino del Norte in Spain and many many others. It's not a question of if but one of when. Most likely from the summer of 2017.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My experiences and my view of the world. Unfortunately I don't know how to cook or do practical things, but I am a good conversationalist.

And my view of the world is awesome.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Romania