I am 65 years old, married for over 35 years, 2 daughters (32/34 years old), living in Trasadingen close to the German border in the northern part of Switzerland.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to meet local people while I am travelling. If they can show me her town or city that would be great.

Interests

• politics
• history
• learning about different cultures
• smoking a good cigar
• traditional country music
• russian singer/songwriters
• vodkas chlibny dar zubrovka

Music, Movies, and Books

Country Music: Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Lefty Frizell, Buck Owens, Pattsy Cline, Patty Loveless, Amber Digby etc.

Rock Music: CCR , The Birds, Rolling Stones, Eagles, Canned Heat

Russian Singer: Wladimir Wyssozki (Moskva-Odessa, Song of Giraffe, zero seven) Yuri Antonov (Welcome Plane)

Movies: The 3rd man, Ninotschka (Greta Garbo) Easy Rider, Way out West (Laurel and Hardy), Some like it hot,

Books: Heart of a dog, Master and Margarita (Michail Bulgakov), novels of Ljudmila Ulitzkaya, Andrej Kurkov, Alexandra Marinina, Polina Dashkova, Joseph Roth (Radetzkimarsch)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was allowed to sit on the jump seat in the cockpit of an Austrian Airlines flight form Vienna to Odessa in 1998 approaching Odessa Airport. The landing was quite good but since the runway was in a rather bad condition it was bumpy till the plane arrived its parking position. But I really enjoyed this expierence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Ukraine, United States