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Overview

  • 40 references 25 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, German, Western Frisian; learning Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Host/Receptionist
  • Bachelor in Theatre & acting.
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About Me

To be or not to be - Shakespeare
To be is to do - Socrates/Sartre
To do is to be - Nietzsche
Do be do be do - Sinatra

PHILOSOPHY

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness" Mark Twain
Live your legend
Right here right now

Interests

  • books
  • yoga
  • walking
  • flying
  • movies
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • lgbt

Music, Movies, and Books

writers: Paulo Coelho, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
books: Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch, Een schitterend gebrek - Arthur Japin, The Perfume- Patrick Suskind, Kafka on the Shore
Music: Antony and The Johnsons, Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Carla Bruni, Jeff Buckley, Spinvis, Tracey Chapman
Directors: Francois Ozon, Pier Paolo Passolini, Lars von Trier, Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen
Movies: Amelie, Songs from the second floor, Dancer in the dark, Susie Q, Being John Malkovich, Mar Adentre, Irrivisible, You me and everyone we know, La Tourneuse de pages, Little Miss Sunshine, Snowcake, Notes on a Scandal, Shortbus, Doubt. mainly arthouse

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking the Camino to Santiago
Burning my clothes in a shaman fire on the peninsula at the end of the world called Fisterra, and swimming naked in the sea afterwards, and falling asleep next to the fire being watched over by the four arch-angels.

Lying on my belly to look down in the fjord from the steep and highest Norwegian cliff: Preikestolenn near Stavanger

Diving on KoTao and seeing 2 huge humpback whales a few hundred meters away. Mother and child waving their tails at me.

Standing on top of the minaret of the mosque Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, looking down at the crowds and realizing this is a near as I will ever be to the real time "Where is Waldo" experience.

Not being able to get back one night to the hut I rented on a cliff in Arambol, Goa because the monsoon storms literally stopped me from walking around the little peninsula by throwing me in the opposite direction.

Walking the big O and W track in Torres del Paine, Patagonia and spending the holidays in a supertranquil way.

Teach, Learn, Share

http://vimeo.com/27244727

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malta, Morocco, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Peru, Qatar, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam, Yemen

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United Arab Emirates

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