CURRENT MISSION

making the world a better place for all

ABOUT ME

we are a happy young couple from ghent (flanders) in the tiny, flat and crowded country of belgium. E have a son who is 3 years old, and a daughter who is only some months young.
Vera is home with the baby but works as a nurse in a local social health care centre. Nico works with school about Global Education, Education for Sustainable Development etc.
We love traveling, mostly in rough, mountainous area's with lot's of nature and few people, but this may change or vary.

We like to meet new people to exchange idea's and experiences, we like to cook nice 'n healthy vegetarian food

PHILOSOPHY

may all beings be happy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

by willing to host people if there's space in the house, by helping them around in our city or country if we have time...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

camping in people's gardens or being invited into people's houses while traveling. taking (lonely) travelers or people with no place to stay in our house, providing them food, a couch, a bed or a matrasse or whatever we had available

Interests

world peace, ecology, women, health, culture(s), art, folk, mountains, yoga, change, exchange, interchange, plants, people, meditation, vegetarian cooking, human rights, animal rights, antimilitarism, anticommercial, anticapitalism, alternative ways to prevent the ongoing destrucion of the earth and its inhabitants, beauty, diversity, difference, comunication, languages, good intentions and bad effects, peace, love, equality, fairness, originality... interests

• animals
• arts
• culture
• beauty
• education
• human rights
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• camping
• ecology
• teaching
• languages
• nursing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

'classical' music, 'world' music, 'electronic' music, 'rock' music, 'chanson' and many other 'genres' that embrace far too much to be called a genre...
so: Bach, Stravinsky, Sjostakovitsj, Mozart, Shubert, Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Boards of Canada, (ninja tunes), dub, trip-hop, chill-out, reggeae, Arabic music, Classical Indian raagas, the Doors, Jaques Brel, Brassens, La Rue Ketanou, rave,...
: dogma, lars von trier, 'the idiots', 'festen', casablanca, gegen die wand, the lucky people centre international, ronja, aki kaurismaki...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

one thing ?

Teach, Learn, Share

smile even more

Countries I’ve Visited

Benin, Bolivia, France, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Guatemala, Spain, Sweden