I love …
… pancakes and goat cheese, cinnemon on my cappu, western and eastern Philosophy, cutting hair, knitting, my ukulele, singing as loud as you can, swimming before breakfast, dancing instead of walking, creating things instead of consuming, cycling places, Living in and learning new languages, inspiring and getting inspiration from new souls I meet

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

If I could live my life again.
Next time, I would try to make more mistakes.
I would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more.
I would be sillier than I have been.
I would take fewer things seriously.
I would be less fastidious.
Accept more risks, I would take more trips,
Contemplate more evenings,
Climb more mountains, and swim more rivers…
I would go to more places where I have not been,
Eat more ice cream and fewer beans.
I would have more real problems and less imaginary ones.
I was one of those people who lived
sensibly and meticulously every minute of their life.
Of course I have had moments of happiness.
But if I could go back in time, I would try to
have good moments only,
and not waste precious time.
I was someone never went
anywhere without a thermometer, a
hot water bag, an umbrella
and a parachute. If I could live again,
I would travel more frivolously.
If I could live again, I would begin
to walk barefoot at the beginning of the spring
and I would continue to do so until the end of autumn.
I would ride more merry-go-rounds,
I would contemplate more evenings and I would play
with more children.
If I could have another life ahead.
But I am 85 years old you see,
and I know that I am dying.

― Jorge Luis Borges

Music, Movies, and Books

ohh.. anything that goes in the ear... be it melancholic, psychedelic or funky, crazy, gypsy stuff, definitely anything that has a guitar or Ukulele in it

.... e.g. Bukhahara, Beirut, Eddie Vedder, Joanna Newsom, Soko, The Do, Iron &Wine, Dispatch, Cat Stevens, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Element of Crime, Ton Steine Scherben, Zaz, Carla Bruni, Jaques Brel, Elliot Smith, Xavier Rudd, The Paper Kites, Noir Desir, Bonobo, ...

and for books: ohh where to start....?
Talisman (Yoko Tawada), Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki (Haruki Murakami ---actually everything of him), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), Haben oder Sein (Erich Fromm), Die Kunst des Liebens (Erich Fromm), Momo (Michael Ende), Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) are just some great journeys of the mind

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meditating while cycling

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Italy, Malta, Thailand, United States