CURRENT MISSION

The object of foreign travel, is not so much to set foot overseas as to see one's own country as a foreign land - Chesterson (1874-1936)

ABOUT ME

I'm an easy-going guy (something of a cliche on CS), discovering the world and getting in touch with its inhabitants.What I like the best is the combination of travelling (mostly hithchiking) and couchsurfing. Although I grew up in the small farmervillage Nieuw-Lekkerland (litteraly translated: 'New-tastycountry) I do like visiting cities and hanging around in urban areas. Since I'm studying I have plenty of sparetime (except for the testweeks of course) to travel.

PHILOSOPHY

- not because it's easy but because it's hard (J.F.K)- doing things that seems almost impossible. Although it can be hard sometimes, we have to keep in contact with other-minded people in order to stay nuanced about the world, cultures and people.

Dlaczego jestem na Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Both are wonderfull ways to meet new people. Here are two short video fragments about me Couchsurfing in Belgium (both were on national television): http://nieuws.vtm.be/binnenland/88398-overheid-jaagt-op-couchsurfers
http://kanaalz.knack.be/nieuws/z-nieuws-items/informele-logies-onder-vuur/video-4000597500899.htm
Thanks to the fanatic defiance of Belgian CS'ers the plan wasn't carried out.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed many times.(pretty difficult verb to change, for a Dutchman at least). The first time we stayed in Antwerp for one night on our way to France, our hosts showed us the city,especially the bars, and we had a lot of interesting talks with them, at any rate; a pretty good begin of my CS-Career.After this wonderful experience I decided to couchsurf as much as possible.

visited 5 states (2.22%)Create your own visited map of The World

History:
Antwerp - on our way to Fecamp (2013), with Casper (@Remco and Patrick)
Cologne - with William (@ Frank Kraft)
Brussels - (@Jerrick)
Ghent - with Jan-Maarten
Brugge - (@Mattie)
Monchengladbach - with Niels (@RealNew)
Antwerp - with Patrick (@Alex)
Hamburg - with Gersom (@Stephen)
Leipzig - with Maarten (@Simone)
Dresden: with Elian (@Alexander)

Zainteresowania

(post-war) history (especially the International Relations part of it), military history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, languages, cultures and utopias.

• traveling
• guitar
• surfing
• history
• international relations
• languages
• psychology
• sociology
• hitchhiking

Muzyka, filmy i książki

Movies; The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, The pianist, Equilibrium, Lord of the Rings, Forest gump. 1984 Music: Johnny Cash, John Denver, ToTo, Hits of the fifties, Destine, Simple plan, The rasmuss Books: A brave new world, the Hungergames, 1984, The hobbit, The Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared and The girl who saved the king of Sweden (to summarise: I really like Jonas Jonasson)

Jedna niesamowita rzecz, którą zrobiłem(-am)

Hitchhiking to Berlin, we were not able to reach Berlin in one day, so a few vagabonds were our hosts

Ucz innych, ucz się sam, udostępniaj

People who're into their community, country, town or village so that you can exchange knowledge with them.

Czym mogę się podzielić z gospodarzami

Play a little guitar, learning languages, showing Leiden.

Kraje, w których byłem(-am)

Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovakia, United Kingdom

Kraje, w których mieszkałem(-am)

Netherlands