CURRENT MISSION

contemplating past travel experiences

ABOUT ME

I am probably an aggregate of the other answers here?

PHILOSOPHY

Some people are afraid of living when they are young, because they might die. And when they are old, those people are afraid of dying because they have not lived. So let's better live. Here. Now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Okay, so here's the deal: We are a family of three and two cats (and a horse, but he lives somewhere else). We've a flat in Vienna where we used to live and host **a lot**. Now that flat's used as a full-time refugee shelter and we've moved a little out of Vienna. We've got a garden and a terrace now and you can put up your small tent on the terrace. Or you can sleep indoors on the floor. In any case you'll need to bring something to sleep on and sleeping bags. (We are trying to improve that, but are not quite there yet).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

After I have been hosting anywhere between one and seven Couchsurfers every week for the past years, I must say that CS really is amazing. Certainly, there have been guests I enjoyed more than others, and than there were those that were more complicated, but I don't regret a single CS day. However, as of late, we've kind of reduced the amount of CSers we take in. It's just getting increasingly hard to fit CSing into our time tables.

Apart from CS, other couch related experience includes:
friends staying over from time to time, far from being organized in any manner though. that was always very enjoyable.
a couple (6) of African refugees at my place. Given that most of them were severely traumatized, it was rather intense. But interesting and a "wow"-experience nonetheless.

Interests

right now? anything north-east of austria. However, that changes quite frequently.

• cooking
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

favorites (in no particular order): Subway to Sally, Sartre, Kevin Spacey, Grass, Distemper, Les Vielles Salopes, The Name of the Rose, Rachel Weisz, Irish Folk Music, Nine Inch Nails, Dr. Strangelove, Nirvana, Elements of Statistical Learning (no, just kidding, interesting but not my favorite), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lyriel, Arkona, NTM, Faun, Raud-Ants, Lumsk, Eluveitie, Nevskij Prospekt, Orphaned Land, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Freezing in plain sun upon leaving Sahara desert after three months, closely rivaled by eating kenke for the first time.

Teach, Learn, Share

Well, I love to cook. But sometimes I am the only one who also loves eating what I cooked. Let me cook for you a couple of times, and you know what I'm talking about. So I guess knowledge transfer in that area might be a good idea. One of the other few things I can share: complex multilevel propensity models of consumer interests mapped to geographic entities, in depth knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure (you wish) and connected to this is a real gem: MASS. Oh, and I'm pretty good with kids. So if any of you need anything in these areas, consider sleeping on my couch.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Luxembourg, Niger, United States

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