CURRENT MISSION

trying to find the meaning of life and to have fun at the same time

ABOUT ME

i'm an easy going guy living in prague. i work as an art director in an advertising company and as a freelance graphic designer ( http://danielsimak.com ). i am an outgoing person (czech style: beer+long discussions or gigs) but sometimes i need to rest so i stay at home reading or watching a movie. i also play football and squash regularly, do skiing and snowboarding during the winter and of course i try to travel as much as possible! my mission is to visit every single country in the world. seems like a whole life job:) i think i am quite friendly, adventurous, talkative, open minded..i am also very clean and tidy. if you host me i will leave everything as it was on arrival.

PHILOSOPHY

you will reap just what you sow.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i travel a lot and i can offer a couch too. i think years of cs made a great guide around prague of me. i also try to help create new cs communites in each place i visit. everything for the growth and expansion of cs around the world!:)

useful links:
- info for tourists http://www.czechtourism.com/eng/uk/docs/holiday-tips/news/index.html
- trains and buses http://idos.cz
- public transport in prague http://www.dpp.cz/en
- czech news in english http://www.einnews.com/czech
- virtual tours: http://www.virtualtravel.cz/virtual-czech-republic.html

must see in prague:
- charles bridge
- prague castle + st. vitus cathedral
- old town square
- malostranske square
- venceslas square
- national theatre
- national museum
- zizkov television tower (view)
- dancing house
- petrin hill (view)
- vysehrad church (view)
- prague zoo
- castles around prague (karlstejn, krivoklat, okor)
- try czech national meals (vepro-knedlo-zelo ,svickova
or gulash)
- try czech beer (pilsner urquelle is the best one)

best music clubs in prague:
- klub 007 strahov http://www.klub007strahov.cz/
- akropolis http://www.palacakropolis.cz/
- roxy http://klub.roxy.cz/index-eng.php/
- meet factory http://meetfactory.cz/lang/en-us/
- divadlo archa http://www.archatheatre.cz/en/
- chapeau rouge http://www.chapeaurouge.cz/cz/
- rock café http://www.rockcafe.cz/index.php?reloadMenu=true&action==
- cross club http://www.crossclub.cz/
- bunkr http://www.bunkr-club.net/
- abaton http://www.prostorabaton.cz/novinky.php
- lucerna music hall http://musicbar.iquest.cz/wwwroot/

best galleries in prague:
- rudolfinum gallery http://www.galerierudolfinum.cz/index.php?lang=en
- dox http://www.doxprague.org/en/homepage
- museum kampa http://www.museumkampa.com/en/
- national gallery http://www.ngprague.cz/en/
- langhans gallery http://www.langhansgalerie.cz/en/index.php
- city gallery prague http://www.ghmp.cz/a_index.php
- national museum http://www.nm.cz/?xSET=lang&xLANG=2

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

still only best experience
hosting in prague
surfed in austria, bolivia, bosnia and hercegovina, bulgary, cambodia, estonia, iran, kazachstan, kyrgyzstan, latvia, lithuania, peru, turkey, serbia, thailand

Interests

travelling, indie music, reading, graphic design, football, art movies, beer talks (politics or art mostly), snowboarding, photography, squash, going out with friends, sleeping when raining outside, hitchhiking, 3d graphics, skiing, art exhibitions, drawing, foreign cuisine, hiking, meeting new people, computer games design

• arts
• culture
• graphic design
• beer
• reading
• painting
• hiking
• kayaking
• skiing
• snowboarding
• tennis
• mountains
• urban exploration
• football
• indie music
• computer games
• asian food
• indie films
• kayak
• travellig

Music, Movies, and Books

books: michel houellebecq, michael chabon, junot díaz, paulo coelho, milan kundera, lou reed, denis leary, jan pelc, jack kerouac, richard bach, bohumil hrabal, oscar wilde, emil hakl, francois villon, charles bukowski, juli zeh, jonathan safran foer, chuck palahniuk, michal ajvaz, george orwell, nick cave, karel čapek, truman capote, william saroyan, jaroslav hašek, petru cimpoeşu, tim davys, roberto bolano

movies: dead man, dr. strangelove, pulp fiction, life of brian, le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, stalker, forrest gump, coffee and cigarettes, big lebowski, spirited away, the godfather, sunset blvd., a clockwork orange, twin peaks, clerks, nuda v brne, the man who wasn't there, napoleon dynamite, pi, maltese falcon, apocalypse now, midnight cowboy, edward scissorhands, sin city, fear and loathing in las vegas, trainspotting, gran torino, spring, summer, fall, winter... and spring, donnie darko,

music: the libertines, the radio dept., phantogram, the smiths, the xx, the postal service, sufjan stevens, the go! team, destroyer, the arcade fire, cocorosie, radiohead, doves, jens lekman, the velvet underground, lou reed, belle and sebastian, motorama, chromatics, national forest, peter bjorn and john, clap your hands say yeah, sigur rós, chin up chin up, architecture in helsinki, of montreal, lali puna, razorlight, babyshambles, the shortwave set, the bon iver, the knife, yeah yeah yeahs, hot chip, why?, joy division, merz, jel, the strokes, infadels, dirty pretty things, the boy least likely to, art brut, elefant, wild nothing, DIIV
http://www.last.fm/user/velvetweb/

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-spent 7 days deep in amazon rain forest in bolivia only with my girlfriend, two friends and two indians. it was the most adventureous week in my life. we ate what we hunted and we went down the river on a raft we made ourselfs of trees...unbeatable!
-hitchhiked across whole europe few times
-attended a championship of romania in alpinism by chance (tough hiking experinece and ever tougher drinking experience:)
-visited remote ta-hoy tribe villages in laos
-have seen some impressive ancient human creations like machu picchu, angkor wat, hagia sofia or acropolis
-climbed up to almost 5000m high peak of cordillera blanca in peru
-horse riding in kyrgyz mountains
-forgot i was still on the planet earth when spending few days in salt deset on the bolivia/chile boarder

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you basics of languages i can speak. try to learn some czech at least to order your beer!:)
i studied civil engineering and graphic design so i can tell you something about architecture in prague or to teach how to use various graphic programs if you are interested.
i am really interested in (addicted to) recent indie rock and electronic music so i can show you some great music you have never heard about.
i can also give you some advices about travelling in wild style (hitch-hiking and so on).

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic

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