CURRENT MISSION

Not on a mission, the mission is on me :P

ABOUT ME

Easygoing, intelligent guy with broad interest who only recently started traveling outside Europe and now did a fair part of the world. Society, politics, LGBT, art, music and books are my most important interests.

Working for the city of Amsterdam. Happy to welcome the guests to my place to get to know it a Amsterdam.

Oh yeah, I'm gay. If you somehow can't cope with that, I'm sorry. Just ignore me :)

PHILOSOPHY

Claim less, share more, enjoy, look around you and don't forget to be humble.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

host, guide, and hopefully loads of interesting talks

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted 4 guests so far. With pleasure. I'm still curious about being a guest myself and I'm planning a world trip so hopefully plantyy of that to come :)

Interests

Arts, books, music, politics, LGBT rights, traveling, wandering, wondering, watching TV, going far too little to the gym but feeling incredible when I do

• arts
• literature
• music festivals
• lgbt rights
• nightlife
• politics
• news
• live music
• history
• journalism
• solo travel
• nature
• africa
• netflix
• amsterdam
• philosphy
• international politics
• netherlands

Music, Movies, and Books

I basicly am a pig when it comes to taking in culture, I read, watch, listen to an incredible wide range of different stuff:

Some readings of the last couple of years: Michael Cunningham (a lot), The QI Book of General Ignorance, The Circle by Dave Eggers and Good People and World Shadow by Nir Baram, Second-Hand Time, the Modern History of Russia and the former Soviet Union in Dramatic Confessions (mustread for who wants to understand modern Russia), Haruki Murukami and what sould be on everybodies reading list: Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything.

Movies I really like: Mulholland Drive, 'You, Me and Everyone We Know', '2001, A Space Oddysey', Almodovar (al lot of it), Her, Persepolis, Lars von Trier, Mein Bruder der Vampier, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Undertow (Contracorriente), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, Das Leben der Anderen, Un Amour de Jeunesse, Weekend, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, but also Meet Joe Black, 50 first dates, Amelie, The Impossible, Deadpool, Star Wars, Brokeback Mountain, etc etc

What I listen to: Bach, The Preachers, Portishead, Madonna, Prince, Bowie, The Rumour Said Fire, Last Shadow Puppets, Neil Diamond, Arcade Fire, Stromae, Babylon Circus, Underworld, Rammstein, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Arvo Pärt, Grace Jones, Muse, Rachmaninov, Erlend Oye, Hans Zimmer, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Susan Vega, Fleetwood Mac, Mozart, Queen, Guns n'Roses, Adele, Nothing But Thieves, Vivaldi, BORNS, Tame Impala, Royksopp, Jack Johnson, Dolly parton, Nouvelle Vague, and so on and so on....

Believe it or not but there's still a lot I really don't like ;)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quitting my job to travel the world in 2016/2017.

Teach, Learn, Share

Generalist. I know a bit about almost everything.

I might know one or two things about the city of Amsterdam and the kingdom of the Netherlands, so someone who's interested in a bit of history and culture might want to abuse me as a walking Wikipedia

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good conversations, good laugh and sparkling personality :P

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands