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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish; learning German, Indonesian
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Scuba Dive Instructor
  • No education listed
  • From Waregem, Flanders, Belgium
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About Me

28 years old. Dive Instructor. Polyglot (Du/Eng/Spa/Fr/Por/Ger/Indo)

PHILOSOPHY

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. " - Mark Twain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Sep 2011: Surfed with Monica (Sundsvall, Sweden)
Jun 2012: Hosted Tamakilinus (Japan)
Mar 2013: Hosted Julie (South Korea)
Mar 2013: Hosted Bori (Hungary)
Mar 2013: Hosted Isabela and Larissa (Brazil)
May 2013: Hosted Daniel and Sara (Mexico and USA)

Interests

Photograpy. Diving. Mountains. Languages. Traveling.

  • traveling
  • camping
  • scuba diving
  • sailing
  • rock climbing
  • languages
  • hitchhiking
  • mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Living in Egypt for 2 years
- Living in Mexico for a year
- Watching the sunrise at Angkor Watt.
- 2 weeks of trekking in the Italian Dolomites with my best friends.
- Teaching English to kids in a fisherman's village on a remote Cambodian island.
- Traveling overland from South-Morocco back to Belgium: 3500km hitchhiking, 1500km by train and 1000km by bus.
- Climbing the Teide volcano in Tenerife and watching the sunrise from the top.
- Camping on the edge of the cliffs in Etretat and on a beautiful field with of view of Le Mont St-Michel in northern France.
- Diving with Bull sharks in Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Egypt, Mexico

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