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Overview

  • 32 references 29 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning French, Italian, Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Bridge designer
  • MSc in Civil Engineering - Structures
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Love Life.

ABOUT ME

Hot or cold, never tepid.

PHILOSOPHY

What you give to the world, the world will give you back.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

Good cinema, the beach in winter days, photography (i'm a beginner though), surfing when it's raining, scuba diving (especialy in Azores), snowboarding, good books, cable suspended bridges (it's more than a job, it's an obsession), laughing, blueberry pie, long showers, travelling without destiny.

  • books
  • photography
  • movies
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • skydiving
  • snowboarding
  • rock climbing
  • paragliding
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Pulp Fiction. Shawnshank Redemption. Snatch. Donnie Darko. Elephant. Mulholland Drive. Garden State (probably the best). Rounders. Dark City. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Memento. Belleville Rendez Vous. Buena Vista Social Club (how i love that way of living). Motorcycle Diaries (i'll write one, someday). Solaris. L'Auberge Espagnole.

Music: fat freddy's drop, bloc party, kaiser chiefs, shout out louds, artic monkeys, franz ferdinand, queens of the stone age, lcd soundsystem, feist, kings of convenience, josé gonzález.

Books: Island (by Aldous Huxley), Aparição (by Vergílio Ferreira), Trainspotting (by Irvine Welsh).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing the 2351mts of the Pico Mountain (Azores Islands) in shorts and spending the night up there, without a tent but with freezing cold allaround (that was plain stupid). Paragliding and skydiving. The Camiño the Santiago on bike, starting in France. Scubadiving in a wrecksite.

Teach, Learn, Share

Portuguese :D, scuba diving and surfing, the little I know about photography, bridge designing (if i can find anyone interested :P), three words in swedish (maybe four).

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, Sweden

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