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Overview

  • 30 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Swiss German; learning Danish, English, French
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Constrution Management
  • Engineer
  • From Sulz, Aargau
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

enjoy life, and fly long and high!!

ABOUT ME

Me, that's a 30 year old swiss guy, living in Basel, Switzerland. After school, I did my engineering studies and work now in construction management... that's during weekdays :-)
In the freetime, weekends an hollidays i do basically every outdoor-sport like:
- paragliding (Tandem Paragliding as well, and i am a Paragliding Instructor)
- climbing / bouldering
- hiking / mountaineering
- skitouring
- swimming and mountainbiking
- on hollidays backpacking
- scubadiving

And for relaxing i like the cinema, DVD, Sauna and SPA, and.. and.. and..

More interests are: architecture and history

Well, that's me, all the rest we can discuss with a coffee :-)

hopefully cu soon

Roman

PHILOSOPHY

hmm, hard to describe
BUT,
According to Richard Brandson, I go for

"GO HARD, OR GO HOME"

What else works for me is: "DO or DON'T, but NEVER TRY"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I share my couch, try to couchsurf a lot, I join the meetings, try to get the zurich couchsurfing group more sporty active :-)
... and i'd like to meet many people from all over the world :-)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

AMAZING... I meet so many couchsurfers all the time, always good experience, lot of fun, discussing, partying, climbing, drinking, dancing...

perfect to me :-)

History:
2013:
- Is the year to travel, AND MEEET YOU :-) hopefully on my way
- surfed 2 nights on imre's couch in Berlin :)
- travelled 6 days with corinna and sarah to hovsgol nationalpark in mongolia
- surfed with tania 2 nights in irkutsk, russia
- surfed with marina 3 nights in Irkutsk, russia

2012:
- Surfed with Samuel 10 nights in Shanghai
- Surfed with Ada some night
- Hosted Björn and Andy
- Hosted Alexa

2011:
- i had a busy year working... sadly few time for couchsurfers :-/
- moved within basel and set up THE NEW COUCH

2010:
-Hosted Aleks 10 nights
-Hosted Louisa 2 nights
-Hosted Selin and Aydn 1 night
-Hosted Tanja 2 nights
-Organized the 1th Snowshoeing / Iglo event for 12 Couchsurfers :-)
-Hosted Karolina 1 night
-Surfed with Hannes 1 night
-Hosted Johanna 1 night
-Travelled 10 days with Sarah in the Rocky Mountains
-Surfed with Jerry 2 nights in Las Vegas

2009:
-Set up the basel climbing group (climbing weekly)
-Organized an skiing-holliday for 40people 6 nights
-Hosted Jennifer from germany 2 nights
-Hosted Remco from netherlands 4 nights
-Hosted Roman 1 night
-Travelled with Markus Mayer from Austria 2 days
-Hosted Maria from germany 4 nights
-Hosted Fabian 5 nights
-Organized 3 paragliding trial-days
-Hosted Michal 3 nights
-Hosted Julia 1 night
-Hosted manou 2 nights
-Surfed with Jennifer in London 2 nights
-Hosted Brenda from spain, 5 nights
-Hosted Jennifer from chile 2 nights
-Hosted Emilie and Favilla from Geneva 1 night
-Organized an easter camping trip for 14 people 5 nights
-Hosted Danielle from Australia 2 nights
-Surfed with Daniel 2 nights in Liublijana

2008
-Hosted Gerlinde from Austria 1 night
-Hosted Danielle from Australia 2 nights
-Hosted Satu from finland 2 nights
-Hosted Hannah from Australia 1 night
-Hosted Mally and Sarah from sweden 2 nights

:-) started with the awesome couchsurfing project :-)

Interests

In the freetime, weekends an hollidays i do
- climbing / bouldering / iceclimbing
- paragliding
- hiking / mountaineering / skitouring
- swimming and mountainbiking
- on hollidays backpacking preferably without a big plan,
- scubadiving

And for relaxing i like the cinema, DVD, Sauna and SPA, and.. and.. and..

  • architecture
  • dancing
  • coffee
  • instructor
  • sauna
  • partying
  • drinking
  • flying
  • movies
  • traveling
  • bouldering
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • camping
  • mountaineering
  • skiing
  • snowboarding
  • snowshoeing
  • sports
  • rock climbing
  • paragliding
  • swimming
  • engineering
  • history
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

favourite book "Dale Carnegie"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Probably the most impressive Moment was a sunrise, 2000m in the mountain, sleeping in an Iglu Snow-House, when the sun started to warm everything, blue sky, silence... was great

Teach, Learn, Share

Paragliding, climbing, rafting, skiing and snowboarding

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, China, France, Nepal, New Zealand, Slovenia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Switzerland

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