CURRENT MISSION

Finding a better work-life balance...

ABOUT ME

I am a very optimistic and easy-going person who enjoys life. For a couple of years, however, I have spent too much time focusing on my job rather than the real important things in life. That's why, I decided to take a three-months timeout between June and August 2011 and travel along the European atlantic coast from Portugal through Spain and France to Ireland. Along this journey CS helped me to meet numerous people from different countries and backgrounds, some of who made a deep impression on me and helped me to develop a new perspective on life and on what's really important - even if it is sometimes difficult to stick to that now that I am back in everyday life...

And now, in 2017, the journey continues... in Bali.

PHILOSOPHY

Still figuring out...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, meetings... the usual

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed couches in Lisbon, Bilbao, Nantes, Dublin and Lazise. Attended meetings in Loule, Lisbon, Porto, San Sebastian, Bordeaux, Nantes, Cork, Dublin, Berlin, Duesseldorf, Wuppertal, Bologna, Florence, Bochum, Zadar, Ubud and Yogyakarta.Hosted in Berlin and Munich.

Interests

Hiking, running, skiing, old-fashioned pubs, draught beer and, most importantly, meeting with people and getting lost talking. Lately, Yoga and Meditation entered the picture..

• running
• meditation
• pub crawls
• traveling
• hiking
• skiing

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite authors: James Clavell, David Sedaris, Harry Mulisch, Max Goldt, Thomas Kapielski, Douglas Adams...

Music: diverse.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Standing at the most South-West point and the most North-West point of Europe with a beer in my hand, looking at the Atlantic.. And everything that happened in the three months between these two moments.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, New Zealand, Spain

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