CURRENT MISSION

To take the most of this wonderful time when we are raising 3 children. To share with them our passion for Nature, travelling, backpacking and meeting people.
After a kind of a break to let the babies grown up, we could travel again with them even if it's much less than what I would have liked!
We volunteered and visited 1 month in Sri Lanka, Asia (2019) and one month in the Peruvian Amazonia (2024). We love hosting people when we can.

ABOUT ME
A 16-years-couple, David (42 years old) studied Physics - Renewable Energies. Mary (39 years old) is a social worker with kids and teens in a foster house. Yaelle, 14 years old, is the perfect daughter, Elouan, 11 years old, is a funny little man. And Leïla, 9 years old, seems happy to be the third one.
We like hiking, singing, playing music, playing games, hitch-hiking, travelling, meeting people and talking around a cup of tea. We heartly welcome you to visit us and we thank warmly all the people who put up us, making of our travels wonderful reminds.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't worry be happy. Just take it easy and everything will come when you need it. (Mary)
Human being should not depart too much from our initial connextion with Nature. (Mary)
Learn and discover (David)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We surfed and hosted regularly for 10 years.
Since we are a familly of 5 , we host other families and that's great. Children like to share their toys and house with other children. It's good to have single travellers or couples too. Sometimes, our kids are a bit shy to talk, above all if guests don't speak French. Sometimes, they just go on so well, it's difficult to know in advance!
As a travelling familly, we used Couchsurfing in England and in Andalousia and it was great but I find very difficult to find CS familly to host us now weare so numerous. We like to volunteer too when it's possible.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As travellers without children, our CS experience had been mainly in India...Great. We will go on with everywhere in the world. As host, we had a lot of guests when we lived in Avignon and now in the Alps quite a lot too as a familly. We heartly welcome families to come. We heartly welcome anyone to come.

Interests

- Analyse life and try to understand always more the human being.
- Talking about Education issues.
- Try to practive Non Violent Communication.
- Playing and making handicraft with my children.
- Making our chidren discover and know about the mixity of the world.
- Walking, hiking, trekking, hitch-hiking, drawing, playing guitar and flute, singing, discussing, playing cards, travelling of course, meeting, drinking...
- Play chess.
- Currently Looking for a law- budget place to live with other people.

• singing
• education
• walking
• drinking
• socializing
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• piano
• hiking
• teaching
• physics
• social work
• hitchhiking
• theatre
• circus skills
• backpackers travelling

Music, Movies, and Books

- Léonard Cohen, Noir Desir, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Jacques Brel, Reggae music, world music ...
- Almodovar, Kusturica, S. Kubrick, cartoons with beatiful drawings (movies)
- S. Kipling, Paulo Cuelo, Nicolas Vanier, P. Auster, Kundera... (books)
- Marshall Rosenberg and his Non-Violent-Communication!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Swim with geant sea turtles in Sri Lanka (Elouan, Yaëlle)
- Take a bath with an elephant (Leïla)
- See a herd of free horses galloping in the montain in the sunset as I was hiking with a group of disadvantages teenagers. (Mary)
-Give birth (Mary)
-Get fiancee in Benares (India)
-Sleep in a Bouddhist Monastery (Nepal)
-Carry a backet on the head (Togo)
-To have been in a coma and recover from it (David)

Teach, Learn, Share

We can share: artistic skills, playing piano and guitar, knots, knitting, ecologic stuff such as solar cooker, ideas, CNV method.

We want to learn: any other things!

What I Can Share with Hosts

We love les Hautes Alpes where we settled in 5 years ago now so we are always glad to show you our favourite places around, lakes, rivers and walks. We like to share experiences of life, of travel so we will be glad to talk with you around a cup ot tea or a glass of wine or a bottle of beer, depending of the hour. Famillies with children to play with ours are especialy welcome!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, England, Finland, India, Nepal, Peru, Spain, Sri Lanka, Togo

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Spain

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