I'm a Biologist and nature lover. I started a PhD in Microbiology because I am so interested in this microcosmos (and in macrocosmos as well). But after 5 years of really demanding life working in a research laboratory, I felt I had no time for myself and what I truly love. I felt I was losing my soul. So I decided to take a break. A break to explore life. To explore the deep expression of my soul and to do what I love. To live in a less material way, trying to connect to both nature and people.

I want to meet new people, new cultures, see new places and new ways of life. I want to taste new flavours, make different things and be faced with new ideas. I want to know at least a piece of world's diversity. And lose myself in it.

I like to talk to unquiet minds, eternal adventurers, lunatics and philosophers. Maybe it's because I might be all of these as well. But I should probably say that I also enjoy silence. I feel comfortable with silence and don't feel the need of keeping the conversation going on all the time. So, if I'm quiet next to you, it doesn't mean that you are not interesting. It means that I feel comfortable enough to enjoy the silence with you :)

PHILOSOPHY

Do as much as I can. The best I can.

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness."

Leo Tolstoy (Family Happiness and Other Stories)

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

I met some of my best friends here :)

Centres d'intérêt

Freedom, Nature, Permaculture, Sustainability, People, Yoga, Meditation, Science (mainly biology and physics), Books, Music, Lindy Hop

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Movies
Into the wild, The Little Prince, Life of Pi, A beautiful mind, The pursuit of happiness, Edward Scissorhands, The curious case of Benjamin Button, The black swan, Terrence Malick movies, animation movies, alternative movies and documentaries.

Music
Indie, alternative, folk, rock, swing, reggae, country, blues, new age, jazz

Books
About Science, Spirituality, Travels, Music, Philosophy, History (if not too boring), Photography and any book with a good story.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

- Rainbow family gatherings
- Watching the Northern Lights dancing in the sky to the rhythm of the Universe.
- Experiencing the traditional swedish sauna: first feeling my body melting at 100ºC, and then running outside and dive in the snow at -20ºC.
- Having my first job interview by Skype, in a random petrol station in the countryside of Sweden, while I was in the middle of a hitchhiking trip.
- Being in a small boat very close to a couple of 18m-long whales.
- Kayaking next to wild seals.
- Sleeping on a volcano crater and watch the sunrise the next day.
- Trekking in the Alps and in the Himalaya (Annapurna circuit and basecamp)
- Volunteer in Kuterevo Bear Refuge, in the middle of Velebit mountains (Croatia).
- Hitchhiking race from Germany to Macedonia (Tramprennen).
- Volunteering with orphan children in Africa.
- Working in a school in Nepal.
- Spending a whole day in thermal baths in Budapest.
- Watching a big thunderstorm from a plane, at night.
- Watching the sunset and breathe the wind in my favourite viewpoint in my lovely Lisbon.
- Having a hot shower after surfing in the cold winter.

... And hopefully many more to come :)

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

I want to learn everything you can teach me and listen to all the stories you have. I want to learn how to cook your favourite dish, how to play a new instrument, how to pronounce a weird word in your language... Just teach me!

I'd like to share good moments. Because happiness is only real when shared.

Pays que j'ai visités

Austria, Cabo Verde, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Vatican City State

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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