CURRENT MISSION

Wanna travel around the world within 80 days... every year!

ABOUT ME

I would like to think I am an adventurer and traveler. At the moment only in Europe. Also I'm an endless Philosophy student who makes his Master degree in Bulgaria. Furthermore, I want to make a M Res or even PhD in Social Anthropology in Scotland, because the Scottish universities are the best in this field. At the same time I am wondering what I suppose to do with my life... To be a hard-worker or to spend all of my days on traveling, dreaming, time to time writing and things like these. My passion is the traveling, but there is an only one country which is in my heart: Bulgaria...

PHILOSOPHY

"Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?" Kierkegaard

I am looking for the meaning of life or, if you preferred, my own philosophy. I'm using these sentences, because
they sound closer to me: 'Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.' Albert Camus and other 'I tell you: one must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.' Friedrich Nietzsche

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm happy to host CSurfers in my flat. I have host experience in Scotland and now I am starting to host travelers in Bulgaria. So far, I was guest to several people in Scotland and France. I admirated the CS project, it is something great and it's bigger than a simple social network!

My first guests at my home in Bulgaria:

Yasen Trendafilov from Sofia

Volen Trendafilov from Sofia

Miroslav Milkov from Gorny Lom, Vidin

Emi

Krisi

Saamet Rushidov from Yavornica, Petrich

Between September 2009 - May 2010 I was host in Scotland: for (17) people

Tamara Hechler from Nuremberg

Annelie Stenzel from Nuremberg

Anna Mey from Dresden

Tina from Dresden

Radi Stoev from Varna

Catalina Munteanu from Innsbruck, Austria (Brasov, RO)

Manuel Bergamini from Bergamo

Alina Kukarina from Munich

Maren Mayer from Munich

Esther from Hamburg

Britta from Hamburg

Diana Nenkova from Genova, Italy (Sofia, BG)

Mihai Bursesc from Salasu de Sus

André Petit from Maubeuge

Benoit from Maubeuge

Sharon Dismore from London

Beth Wimmer from Sankt Moriz, Switzerland (Santa Monica, CA)

Back in Bulgaria:

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed with: 6

Dec 2009 Catalina Munteanu a Romanian in Perth, Scotland

Apr 2010 Biser Hong a Bulgarian in Edinburgh, Scotland

May 2010 Sarah Staines an English in Gouvieux, France

May 2010 Mihai Bursesc a Romanian in Paris, France

May 2010 Cecilia Jullien in Beauvais, France

May 2010 Matthieu Delamare in Beauvais, France

Feb 2011 Hristo Doksanliev in Veliko Tarnovo

Feb 2011 Petya Gotseva in Veliko Tarnovo

Feb 2011 Presiyan Petrov in Veliko Tarnovo

I'm finding some old friends here and... discovering some new. So, when I go to my own trip around Europe I'll meet couchsurfers from Western Europe, Scandinavia, Central Europe, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the two Americas, South of Sahara or North of Sahara, people from whole Oceania + Australia and New Zealand, from Middle East and Far East, even from Antarctica... people from everywhere... most of them are really good folks.

...How about a trip across my home Balkans? I miss these lands of Gods and men. They are amazing. The culture there is totally different and the people as well. Everything is so colorful and somehow odd for the people from the West. You've to see it! I'll spend a week in my homecountry Bulgaria: Sofia, Blagoevgrad and Petrich. I want to see my friends and to menage with some stuff. After that I'll hike and hitchhike across Macedonia for two or three weeks: Strumica, Doiran lake, Gevgelija, Veles, Bitola and mount Pelister, Stip, Prilep, Ohrid and the Ohrid lake, Struga, Tetovo and Skopje; I'm going to go to Albania and Kosovo, and Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia - I want to visit just few of the beauties there, because for month and a half it is not possible. Balkans I'm here for you!

...I'm planning a major trip around Europe with duration more or less couple of months. The first idea was to travel on the railways, but probably I'll try with hitchhiking. I'm going to leave Scotland in the end of June and my journey will begin from Bergen, Heugesund or Stavanger to Oslo; after that Sweden, Finland and/or Karelia in Russia (I want but I have to manage the visa stuff). When I finish with Scandinavia I hope to visit the Baltic republics: Estonia, Litva and Lithuania (why not Kaliningrad as well). Next - the long way back to home: Poland, Slovakia and Hungary (or Ukraine instead of them), Romania... Please, gimme an advice :p

Interests

My interests are in Literature, History, traveling, trips, arts, Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Chess, Work with wood, iron, leather, Hiking, Hitchhiking, Architecture, Agriculture, Bulgarian and Foreign language and culture, Theater, Cinema, Texas hold'em.. I am happy when I am with friends. I can't find something better than good friendships.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• theater
• architecture
• dancing
• cooking
• flowers
• movies
• chess
• traveling
• hiking
• adventure races
• paragliding
• agriculture
• anthropology
• teaching
• history
• hitchhiking
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I prefer and listen mostly rock, metal and jazz music. I am in love with blues and symphonic music. That music makes mе feel alive! Also I am listening folklore music from everywhere; it gives me energy and willing for life... List of my favorites: Rolling stones, Animals, Kinks, Who, Bob Dylan, Jimmi Hendrix, Jefferson airplane, Credence, Doors, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Queen, Alice Cooper, Guns'n'roses, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Uriah Heep, Radiohead, Motorhead, Marilyn Manson, Metallica...

Like a movie fan I'll vote for a director - Andrey Tarkovski (my personal #1): The Sacrifice, Nostalgia, Stalker (surely), The Mirror, Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood. Others: Woody Allen, Tim Burton, Friz Lang, David Lynch, K. Kieslowski, Alejandro Amenabar, Carlos Saura, Roman Polanski, Stieven Spielberg, Vin Venders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Luis Bunuel, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Bernardo Bertoluci, Federico Fellini, Milos Forman, Pedro Almodóvar, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, Guy Richie... etc

Literature is the biggest passion for me. I'm living in other universe and the books are galaxies for me. Some of my favorites: Huxley's 'Brave New world', Orwell's '1984', Bradberry's 'Fahrenheit 451', Vonnegut's 'Breakfast of champions', 'Cat's credle', 'Bluebeard', Heller's 'Catch 22', 'Something's happend', Casey's 'One flew over the cucoo's nest', Keruak's 'On the road', Steinbeck's 'East of Eden', Vidal's 'The creation', 'Kalki', Nietsche's 'Also spoke Zarathustra', 'Beyond good and evil', Hesse's 'The glass perls game', 'The steppen wolf' and 'Siddhartha', Mann's 'The magic mountain', 'Joseph and his brothers', Dostoevsky's 'The idiot', 'The brothers Karamazov', 'Deamons', Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina', Turgenev's 'Fathers and children', Bulgakov's 'The master and Margarita', Ilf & Petrov's 'The Golden capricorn', Exciuperry's 'The Little prince', Cervantes's 'Don Quixote', Camus's 'The stranger', Sartr's 'La nousee', 'Being and nothingness', Proust's novels, Bukowski's 'Post office', Selinger's 'The Catcher in the rye', Kazanzakis's 'The Last temptation of Christ', 'Alexis Zorbas', 'Christ crusified', Kafka's 'The trial', 'Metamorphosis', Milan Kundera, Orhan Pamuk, Terry Pratchet, John Tolkien, Duglas Adams, Robert Jordan; Dimitar Talev's 'For Macedonia', Ivaylo Petrov's 'Before my birth and after that', Dimitar Dimov's 'Tabacco', Ivan Vazov's 'Under the slavery', Zahary Stoyanov's 'Notes about the Bulgarian uprisings'... and many others.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunrise over Stone beach, Sunset above mount Botev, Paragliding over Beklemeto...

Teach, Learn, Share

Actually, I am not a good teacher. But I can learn something from you. Well, for the register: I am experimenting cook, good chess and backgammon player (but not really good), on an other hand I know a lot about Balkan history and culture, I've my own stories for my trips, faces and places and I can share them.
I'm interested in sharing as well: I share my flat and I adore hitchhiking and ride-sharing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, France, United Kingdom

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