CURRENT MISSION

Let's change the world into a better place!

ABOUT ME

Open minded, mostly positive thinking / sometimes not, curious, humorous, always trying to save the world, lateral thinking, helpful, pacifistic, energy saving, philosophic, animal fan, staunch vegan for ethical/moral reasons, animals rights activist ...

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

After our three first very positive CS experiences as guests my wife and me will try hard to enable us to offer a couch for other CS members as well in the near future. This way of traveling and learning to know countries and people is so much more intensive than just staying in hotels, motels or "b&b"s...!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far three overwhelming positive experiences as a guest - but hopefully many more positive experiences as a guest or a host in the future?

Interests

There are almost too many interests: veganism, travelling, learning to know other countries, people and cultures, nature & environment, motorcycle riding (on one of my old Suzukis), flying, animals (horses, cats and others), photography, astronomy, volcanology, minerals and gemstones, sciences, music and many more...

• animals
• cats
• horses
• photography
• vegan
• flying
• traveling
• music
• boxing
• astronomy
• veganism
• animals rights

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Dances with wolves, Broken arrow, Seabisquit, Le grand bleu / The big blue, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apollo 13, Contact, Speed, While you were sleeping, Alien, Terminator, Predator, Westworld, The Fifth Element, Enemy of the State, Die hard, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Apocalypse Now, Mars attacks, Das Boot, Dante's peak and many many more...
Music: Green day, the Cure, Coldplay, C.C.R., R.E.M., Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, U2, Pink Floyd, the Who, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Mike & the mechanics, A-HA, the Police, Heart, Brian Adams, Mike Oldfield, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Nickelback, Billy Joel, Elton John, Eros Ramazotti and many many many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2011 on a very special day at a special time I saw a rocket stage of a Russian Sojus spaceship burning up in the athmosphere: it was on Christmas Eve at about 5:30 p.m., and I had just arrived at my home to celebrate Christmas! I thought I was dreaming...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDQe9aufX4o

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: About the love life of cobblestones accross the seasons in consideration of the ultraviolet radiation, the solar winds, the phases of the moon and the global climate change: a really exciting contemporary issue! ;-)
Learn: Spanish, Norwegian, Dutch: an enormously hard job at the ripe old age of 55+...! :-P
Share: all I know! And what DO I know? Hmmm... it's like Socrates: I only know that I know nothing - or? :-)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Interesting conversations and thoughts out of the box?

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany