I’m a simple man and I'd say an easygoing, adventurous and friendly person.

My preferred activities are cycling, going to concerts and sport events, playing football and tennis. I like going out for a drink and billiards in a bar, or dancing all night long in a club night, but also playing badminton in the park, kart driving or chilling home, playing video/board/card games or to watch something. I need both getting out of my comfort zone regularly to feel alive and staying back there for a while to rest and recharge. Don't take and never did any drugs. It's pointless trying to make me try. I've only smoked weed a few times over the years, but it's not my thing either.

More to less I like to travel by bicycle, airplane, train, ferry, bus and car. I adore cities crossed by big rivers as Prague and Vltava, Budapest and Danube, London and Thames or the canals of Amsterdam. Mountains and seaside are both awesome to me, but it's more likely to make me climb something, if you take a bicycle too. As much as I love cycling, I do not walking. You can make me run only if there's a ball to chase or I'm in hurry and I'd miss the subway train otherwise :D I love animals as well, but my lifestyle is (still) not the best for having a pet again :)

It could be said I'm a tech guy to a certain extent, but for some things I could be quite conservative if I don't feel I need the new upgrade or a change because of a trend.
Graduated high school for IT, but I realized I don't want to spend most of my lifetime in coding, stuck on a desk at home/laptop or even worse to me, in an office. I know it's hard to understand for many people these days in such a materialistic world, but I even prefer to do cycling deliveries, being outside all the day, meeting new people all the time and doing something I really love to.

I was apolitical until my late 20s, but it was slowly changing through the years and my final breaking point was the way pandemic was managed by the WHO and the governments worldwide. I'm not an anti-vaxxer and I did the complete immunization calendar back in my childhood and teenage years, but I refused to take any of the COVID ones on the recommendation of my doctor and never agreed on the Green Pass policy. Instead, I actively participated in the protests here in my country from the very beginning of the mass lockdowns. It turned to be anti-government as well at some point and led to the biggest political crisis in my lifetime. We had 8 parliamentary elections just for the last 3 years, the 9th seems to be on the way soon and I never missed to vote in this period. All the time for the nationalistic party which took the role of a protector of the citizens from the police when we protested against the COVID measures and it's also calling for referendum about our EU membership, if it doesn't change drastically soon. I'd vote for Trump, if I had US citizenship, for Wilders, if Dutch, etc. which doesn't mean I'm the biggest fan of such people at all. But in my opinion globally we reached a point when choices and changes must be made, if it's not even too late for some of it.

An anti-war person, but if you're trying to convince me there's an innocent side in the Ukrainian-Russian conflict, I won't be interested. Brothers and sisters are killing each other there and it's the only thing that really matters. I don't need anyone to repeat the propaganda of either side to me. If you try to make me believe all Russian/s or American/s or whatever is/are bad, I'd give you examples for personalities and/or art to prove you wrong defending the opposite. As I did, with my full respect to the personal tragedy, with a Syrian once, translating to him a devastatingly (self-)critical song of US rock band against their own government and society, although we shared same opinion about their politics and what happened with his homeland because of it. So after, I asked him to tell me again all American(s) is/are evil, but he ended up in tears realizing the grief caused him to generalize wrongly for years. This is the song, if someone is curious: https://youtu.be/eQji1bEXwc0?si=eGb4WMqdaEEkFv8d
For the open wound in the Middle East, I'm definitely pro-Palestinian, because although the state of Israel is much more developed country compared to what it was on these lands before its creation, and closer to the civilization and values that I'm used to and share - to genocide another nation and playing a victim when they radicalize is not the way to do it. I'd probably radicalize as well, if you do it to my homeland and nation.

Don't define myself as religious, but I realize more and more over the years that I share Christian and so-called traditional family values, so I guess I can be called conservative more than anything else. I'm not homophobic or racist, although I can have some prejudices based on experience. If you behave respectfully, don't push me to share values that I don't want to and I find reasons to keep in touch with you, it doesn't matter to me where you're coming from, religion, skin color, sexuality, etc. and we can be friends. And the opposite - if you don't behave, it doesn't matter if you're white, straight and Christian like me, it just won't work between us. You can believe in whatever you want, live the way you want, if it doesn't hurt others and to perceive yourself however you like, but in the end of the day the genders are just two and only a woman can give birth to a child. As if you want to move somewhere because of achievements of another society - you're the one who must to adapt to it and change, but not the majority to the minority. Otherwise, pretty soon it won't be the same place you liked and dreamed about. So if we lose the family unit and values, we're losing it all for Europe the way it was built and I personally liked it. I'll never agree to live in a world where it's accepted so-called biological man, trans woman or whatever to fight women for money, entertainment and sick ideology while child-free agenda is trying to be presented as a plan for a... future?! It's lunacy to even put those words in one sentence.

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”, Benjamin Franklin
"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue", Edmund Burke
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty”, Thomas Jefferson

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

To experience more meetings like these:

Hosted
- 2017/09: Juliane Heffe (Germany) and VJ (Australia)
- 2017/09: Jovana Jovanovic (Serbia) + Met 2019/05 in Belgrade
- 2017/09: Alexia (France)
- 2017/09: Sissyane Rodrigues (Brazil)
- 2017/08: Anna Lotte (The Netherlands)
- 2017/08: Jochen Schiersch (Germany)
- 2017/06: Andreas Haas and Tim (Germany)
- 2017/05: Ruth Clark (Scotland)
- 2017/05: Teodor Aagaard (Norway)
- 2017/04: Ekaterina Norkina (Russia)
- 2016/07: Amy Pond (France)
- 2015/09: Benjamin Pauer (Germany)
- 2015/04: Tim Sippala (Finland) + Met 2016/09

Surfed
- 2024/05: Julie from France (Amsterdam, NED)
- 2014/11: Hugo Verkley and Susan van der Veen (Utrecht, NED)
- 2014/11: Loeka van Bijnen (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: Judith de Waard and Simon Kleine (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: Daniëlle Beekman (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: noorkonings (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: Masha Moisseyeva from Kazakhstan, Oscar Ulises Carreon - Mexico and Jonathan Liu - Hong Kong (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/11: Jaimy Landman (Haarlem, NED) + 2014/10 ; 2016/01 ; Met 2016/12 in Amsterdam and 2018/02 in Sofia
- 2013/11: Stephanie van Hoeijen (Haarlem, NED)
- 2013/08: Petru Enoiu (Craiova, ROU) + Met 2014/11 in London
- 2013/08: Noelia Ferreyra from Argentina (Ramnicu Valcea, ROU)
- 2013/08: Sebastian (Fagaras, ROU)
- 2013/06: Pieter Scheelbeek (Eindhoven, NED)
- 2012/10: Krzysiek Rychlik from Poland (Brussels, BEL) + Met 2014/08 in Sofia
- 2012/10: Evelien van de Velde and Wilco Verherbrugge; Nitida Dooms (Terneuzen, NED)
- 2012/10: Lieze Neven (Antwerpen, BEL) + 2012/11

Met
- 2024/11: Catalina Esteban Tatay, Spain (Sofia, BUL)
- 2024/05: Olya Grishina, Russia (Sofia, BUL)
- 2017/06: Tanya Nesterova, Russia (Sofia, BUL)
- 2015/06: July Rodrigueiro, Brazil (Sofia, BUL)
- 2013/11: Dylan de Heer and Carlijn Kortland (Utrecht, NED)
- 2013/08: Alexandra Trica, Alin Stanica and Irina Tanasescu (Craiova, ROU)
- 2013/08: Mario Ulloa from Mexico (Ploiești, ROU)

Interessen

Supporter of CSKA Sofia since childhood. Pyro is not a crime, right?! ;)
Huge fan of Novak Djokovic both as athlete and personality
Simona Halep is my favorite tennis player of the women
Ticket To Ride series is probably my favorite board game
I'm always up for an evening of playing Belote with friends

PC Games: Syberia, The Black Mirror, Pathologic, Still Life, Erica, The Wolf Among Us, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Nox, Darkstone, FIFA, PES, Football Manager, Ultimate Soccer Manager, Mountain Bike Adrenaline, Tennis Masters Series, Virtua Tennis, Age of Empires, Cossacks: European Wars, Heroes of Might and Magic, Expeditions: Viking, GTA, Mafia, Far Cry, Delta Force, DOOM, Undying, Yu-Gi-Oh...

• documentaries
• tattoos
• concerts
• festivals
• movies
• board games
• podcasts
• music
• electronic music
• hip-hop music
• metal music
• cycling
• sports
• tennis
• geopolitics
• football
• airplanes
• series
• pop music
• urban planning
• card games
• balkans
• pc gaming

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Although half the time I'm listening to metal and rock, I'm a huge music lover and I enjoy almost any genre, if I like the track. Recently I'm listening most often to metalcore bands as Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Bad Omens, Architects, etc., but some of my all-time favorites are Delain, Axel Rudi Pell, Gotthard, everything with Ronnie James Dio, Five Finger Death Punch, Judas Priest, Primal Fear, Lacuna Coil, Three Days Grace, In This Moment, Haggard, Eluveitie, Arch Enemy, Disturbed, Papa Roach, Nothing More, Halestorm, 3 Doors Down, From Ashes To New, etc.

Pop, electronic and hip-hop music usually sound for the rest of my day
// Sia, Jessie J, Halsey, Skylar Grey, Pink, Emeli Sande, LP, Dua Lipa, Ava Max, Bebe Rexha, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Zara Larsson, Fall Out Boy, INNA, Minelli, Ellie Goulding, Alan Walker, Marshmello, Hollywood Undead, DMX, Roxette, C-Block...

Also I like to listen songs on different languages except English and Bulgarian, but I love Serbian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, French as well, even if I only understand some words or sentences.
// Tropico Band, Dubioza Kolektiv, S.A.R.S., Beogradski sindikat, Gazda Paja, Coby, Nikolija, Cvija, Milica Pavlovic, Tea Tairovic, Carla's Dreams, Zdob și Zdub, Holly Molly, Leningrad, Zaz...

It was a major goal of my 20s to listen live and meet most of my favorite bands and artists which I combined with my passion for travelling, so I attended hundreds of gigs and festivals in Europe. Partial listing here:
https://www.setlist.fm/concerts/RockSeeker

For movies or TV series I'm sick of the Hollywood style especially nowadays, so I'd probably prefer something European or South American. If I should point out some titles, they'd be El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes) ft. Ricardo Darín, The Green Mile ft. Tom Hanks and based on Stephen King's novel, Завет (Promise Me This) directed by Emir Kusturica for the movies and Vikings, Полицейский с Рублёвки (The Policemen of Rublyovka) and Shameless for the TV series. I like documentaries as well, Air Crash Investigation is a favorite series as I'm interested in aviation too, and follow some podcasts and vlogs. Also I'm intrigued about controversial and so called alternative directors like Lars von Trier.

I rarely read books, but when I do I'm this kind that if I start reading and I'm thrilled, I can't stop until I reach the end.
I'm not a fan of specific genre, but I have a complete collection of all the novels and short stories by Agatha Christie.

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

My most favorite band got me on the tour bus once and gave me a ride to the next show on the eve of my birthday as a gesture of gratitude that I was keep travelling over Europe to attend gigs of them for many years.

Cycled more than 50000km in 8 countries since I started to use odometer in 2008. My two longest tours so far are twice for about 1000km each - the first one was a tour of Romania in 2013 and the second, going from my hometown Sofia to Budapest crossing the whole of Serbia in 2019 when shortly after the pandemic hit. Longest distance cycled in a day is about 200km during 3-days ride to the seaside in Bulgaria and most elevation gain in a day is more than 4000m for about 160km in Rhodope Mountains. Here it is my Strava profile where I upload most of my intercity rides: https://www.strava.com/athletes/23190116

Dozens of people around me were inspired, asked me for assistance and I helped them to choose what kind of a bicycle to buy.
Some of them use it only for faster and more enjoyable moving around the city, but others began to join us for intercity trips as well. Although this is a modest contribution to the overall situation, I hope and I want to believe that lots of small steps like that would lead to more human-friendly infrastructure and less car-oriented cities.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Bulgaria