CURRENT MISSION

Travel, Discover hidden places & Enjoy Life With New Friends

ABOUT ME

Meeting new people from different cultures is something that brings new ideas into my life. Happy to show around and help travelers to feel happy passing by because adore traveling too. Sometimes we go for short trips around Ukraine by car and with pleasure will give a ride or invite to join us in visiting sea shore or hiking in mountains.

PHILOSOPHY

What one can imagine can become true and this opens the new world! :-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

hello world! open your doors and welcome to visit us! If you travel with bike lets make cycling to some places in the city.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

(started not within CS network) hosting international volunteers coming to projects in my city, got hosted as international volunteer by local voluntary organisations' volunteers since 1998 in EU. Now enjoying CS experience. Many thanks to all our hosts, guests and friends!

Interests

outdoor hiking, ski, snowboard, bike, windsurfing, sailing, cooking, live music concerts, traveling, good time with friends, in love with anything releated to sea :-) like to taste food, wines and beers (im not an expert)

• arts
• concerts
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• flying
• yachting
• boating
• technology
• traveling
• music
• live music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• windsurfing
• sailing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• swimming
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

jazz, blues, rock'n'roll, commedy movies, sometimes opera or classical music, books about great inventors, engineers, travelers, adventurers and entrepreneurs. And yes, I do like Bond...James Bond movies ;))))

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being part of the crew in ZKYak sailing races and meeting with legendary Vladimir Musatov who built Hetman Sahaidachny 60ft. sailboat and sailed Whitbread Round the World Race on it.

Driving 36ft. yacht and becoming a licensed boat skippers with 3 friends together ;) Hoooooooray! New adventures ahead!

Back to 'Childhood' places in Kent, UK after 13 years and feeling how everything became smaller

Amazing sea food experience and great people on Murter island, Croatia

RopeJump off the 40m high bridge

Sunset sky colors on Black Sea next to the most western lighthouse in june

Sound of falling stars in a night

Castle in Najac 'flying in clouds'

Friends power - more than 600 votes just in 3 days from friends and their friends and people we even dont know for us to climb the Everest BC.

Icecream from snow, berries and 'sweet jammed milk' in high mountains

Staying in the basement level of a real human tower (castell) in Barcelona

Trying amazing food in Cantabria

Teach, Learn, Share

happy to cook a dinner and exchange ideas for cooking

with pleasure will explain about our city secret places like where to find the Dynisour monument, a 'gondolier' who can give you a ride on real Gondola right in Dnipro river, advice for good bars, places to eat and listen to the live music.

Yeah, will give you the guidelines how to spell right our city name 'DNIPROPETROVSK' ))) Our method 100% works for all our friends from abroad )))

will join outside 'photo huting' or activities like jogging, cycling, swimming, yachting or what ever crazy or funny e.g. city pillow fights

will work for food )) to learn anything from visual art of high/tech, sound, light installations

1. Ukraine possesses the heaviest silver coin named “10 years of hryvnia revival”. It was made in 2006 and weighs 1000 grams.

2. The first constitution in the world was created in Ukraine by Pylyp Orlyk. This day was on April 5, 1710, when he was proclaimed the Hetman of Zaporizhia troops. His constitution name was “the Constitution of the rights and freedoms of Zaporizhia army”. Whilst in the USA the first constitution appeared in 1787, and in France and Poland it appeared in 1791.

3. Pablo Picasso was enraptured by paintings of Ukrainian artist Catherine Bilokur. He met her at the exhibition in 1954 and called her works brilliant. Pablo Picasso found her alike the famous artis Seraphine Louis.

4. Mikhail Bulgakov considered Kyiv the most beautiful city in the world.

5. The eminent shod flee is in Ukraine. You can see it at the Museum of Miniatures in Kyiv. It was created by Ukrainian craftsmen of miniatures Mykola Syadrysty.

6. Linguistic contest that took place in Paris in 1934 was significant for Ukrainian language. It was recognized the second most melodic language in the world after Italian and the third most beautiful in phonetics, vocabulary, phraseology and sentence structure after French and Persian.

7. There is the deepest subway station in the world in Kyiv. Its depth is 105 meters. The station is called Arsenalna.

8. Geographic center of Europe is in Ukraine, in a small town Rahiv that is in the West of Carpathian Mountains.

9. Lviv and Odesa (Odessa) are cities with most unique cultural essentials (considered by me and I love to be there).

10. Most beautiful Dnipro river embankment is in Dnipropetrovsk. Check it out!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ukraine

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