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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
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ABOUT ME
My dream is to realize a long-term travel. Meeting travellers is a big inspiration to me.
PHILOSOPHY
A traveler came to the gates of a new city and asked the gatekeeper, "What kind of people live here?"
The gatekeeper answered with a question of his own, "What kind of people lived in the city you just came from?"
The traveler replied, "They were mostly a cantankerous lot, greedy and self-centered."
The gatekeeper answered, "I expect you will find the people here just the same."
Soon after, another traveler met the gatekeeper and asked the same question. Again the gatekeeper asked, "How did you find the residents of the city you visited last?"
The traveler answered enthusiastically, "They were warm and hospitable; truly a fine group of people."
The gatekeeper responded, "I expect you will find these folk just the same."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The more I travel, the more I realize that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
Once upon the time there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they said sympathetically.
"Maybe," the farmer replied.
The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. "How wonderful," the neighbors exclaimed.
"Maybe," replied the old man.
The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.
"Maybe," answered the farmer.
The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the sonâs leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.
"Maybe," said the farmer.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Meetings/gatherings, spreading the word
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Very good. Enriching my life.
Few surfing experiences, few hosting experiences, lots of meetings in my hometown and abroad, big events in Vienna, Paris, Nurnberg and Prague, lots of fun, making friends
Interests
Travelling (I like the feeling when hitting the road), road trips, camping, sitting by a campfire, listening to a quitar and singing
Canoe trips, biking, bowling, darts
Scrabble
Languages
Hanging out with friends
Visiting tea-rooms (I can show you a nice one in Brno and in Toronto:)
Sports (swimming, rollerskating, iceskating, volleyball, badminton, squash, cross-country skiing), I am up for trying new ones
Sauna
visited 19 states (8.44%)Create your own visited map of The World
- horses
- singing
- sauna
- news
- traveling
- darts
- cycling
- canoeing
- camping
- surfing
- skiing
- sports
- racquetball
- volleyball
- swimming
- bowling
- badminton
- languages
- hitchhiking
- volunteering
- road trips
- long-term travel
- au-pair
- squash
Music, Movies, and Books
Monty Python
Woody Allen
Before Sunset, Before Sunrise
Hair
Fiddler on the Roof
sitcoms (How I met your mother, The Big Bang Theory, Friends, Simpsons, How Not to Live Your Life, Black books...)
Milena Holcova - I love her books about travelling, a real adventurous person with funny writing style
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler - The Art of Happiness
Pema Chodron - Start where you are
Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
Jean Liedloff - The Continuum Concept
and more...
Jaromir Nohavica (Czech folk singer), Raduza (Czech folk singer), Jan Budar a Eliscin band, Cechomor (Czech band playing folk songs)
Oldies goldies:)
Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Johny Cash, Balkan music...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Learning how to swim in my adult age and floating on the water for the very first time:o)
Quitting my job in a travel agency after 8 years and leaving my hometown to get experience from living abroad. Au-pair in Turkey in summer 2013. Volunteering on a farm in Canada in fall 2013.
Hitchhiking from Czech Republic to Paris during high school years with a friend of mine. Hitchhiking from Czech Republic to Denmark with the same friend few years after:)
Teach, Learn, Share
We`ll see what we can share and teach one another
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, Czech Republic
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