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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning Romanian
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Ex board game business owner
  • Never graduated from University
  • From Moscow
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Compare bike travel with car travel =)

ABOUT ME

I'm a person who loves new beginnings and always looks for fresh impressions. With good sence of humor and laughing too loud =)

I always look for new destinations and every time try to use a new route to find out something new (and because I just get bored to use the same ones many times =))

PHILOSOPHY

To look for new ways and destinations.

Interests

That would be too obvious to tell that I like to travel. But I can specify that I love car travel and drove through US, Europe. Went on my car from Moscow to the west - in Europe and to the East - to the Urals.

I once happened to bee a bookbinder. Then I started a board game club and then a shop and a publishing company. Now all that is in the past and I have only travel left as my hobby.

  • breakfast
  • partying
  • clubbing
  • shopping
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • swimming
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I love blockbusters beacause they always give a chance to laugh on mismatches in plot =)

My music preferences are to wide to specify - I love tunes, not styles.

With books I always prefered fiction and SciFi, but last year I read almost travel diaries only.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

First powerfull impression from my childhood was when I was drowning in Moscow-river. Hopefully my aunt saved me then. And several years later I happened to swim in the high waves of Black Sea trying for half an hour to return to the shore without any good progress. I survived then too.

The other terrible impression was when my gandfather took me to walk through the captured building of the Central Committee of Romanian Communist Party just after revolution in 1989. That was a terrible show of destruction.

I'm glad that almost all the other impressions of my life are much happier. Really hard to choose, but, just for exampe, I will always remember the first view of Alps when I arrived there on winter 2010 in the middle oа the night and had no chance to see the mountains. And then woke up and saw that everything was covered with a fog. And I was almost loosing my good mood when I had to leave Austria just after the breakfast and then the weather improved and I saw all these gorgeous peaks! =)

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm past progammer, bookbinder, board game publisher and reseller. To every of these (and many other) my occupations I gave a lot of passion and time at different periods of my life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Romania, Russian Federation

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