CURRENT MISSION

making this place a better world

ABOUT ME

From Berlin, passionate ground traveller, medical doctor, dog lover, studied a bit of French, Russian and Vietnamese.
I used to play in a Rock band until 2009, I consider myself somewhat left wing but open-minded, I am having dogs since about 1998, I try to travel from time to time. I'm not a poet so I'm unable to write something poetic here.

PHILOSOPHY

The journey is the reward.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

There is lots of travel information about Berlin available on the net. I am not good in history nor in giving details about tourist traps. I can offer a little alternative city tour for people interested in alternative living culture, or we could just meet for a coffee or drink or some vegetarian food or hang out in the kitchen of my great flatshare with my even more great flatmates ;)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have quite often been a guest in different corners of the world and hosted a couple of people here. I prefer to abstain from hotels and hostels, and meet with local people instead of backpackers.

Places where I surfed couches:

***Asia***
Vietnam: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City
Thailand: Bangkok
Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur
India: Delhi, Mumbai
Pakistan: Karachi
Kazakhstan: Almaty
Iran: Tabriz
Russia: Yekaterinburg, Tomsk, Irkutsk

***Europe***
France: Marseille, Paris, Lyon
Italy: Rome, Palermo, Milano
Russia: St. Petersburg
Finland: Helsinki

***Africa***
South Africa: Johannesburg

Interests

travel, discovering places, cultures and people, music, neurology, natural sciences, society & culture, dogs, nature, hiking

• dogs
• culture
• dining
• coffee
• vegetarian
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Some books that I've read and that I liked, without any order:

The Longest Way, Christoph Rehage
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Malevil and Les hommes protées (The Virility Factor), Robert Merle
The Quarry (Der Verdacht) and The Pledge (Das Versprechen), Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Night in Lisbon, E M Remarque
Glennkill, Leonie Swann

Music I enjoy includes: Extrawelt, Ali Faka Toure, Audioslave, RATM, Johnny Cash, Clawfinger, Calexico, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Dover, Weezer, The Beatles, Absolute Beginner, Lady Sovereign, The Prodigy, Nirvana, Beirut, The Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Rotfront Emigrantski Raggamuffin, Oma Hans, Skunk Anansie, Cypress Hill, Randy, Placebo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

* went overland from Germany to India via Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan in 2013

* went all the way from Berlin Germany to Hanoi Vietnam by Bus and Train

* went by VW caravan (1974 T2 Bully) from Berlin to Moscow to Samara (in winter)

* saw Baikal Lake and Volga river and Drakensberge and Lesotho in winter

* saw the Yeti
(in Berlin Kreuzberg burning my neighbour's car on May, 1st)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, South Africa, Viet Nam