I don't accept guests anymore.cause I am nearly retired and I am leaving for a big journey.
I have been traveling all my life. From the age of 15 I was hitchhiking through Europe. I don't like to stay in hotels. When I am not camping I prefer hostels because there you meet interesting people. Being a teacher I have 5 times during the year holidays till now I spent all my holidays outside the Netherlands. I have to work 3 months more and then I am retired. So I will walk from the south of Spain through the south of Portugal, up north to Santiago the Compostella or I start in France. Most of the time I will camp wild, but from time to time a bed will be nice.
Diemen is Amsterdam and I live in a typical old Dutch house with a wood fire and with a dog , a cat and a chicken. It's a really cozy old house
. We have had always guests from all over the world and I like people. My daughter is 22 and was making a world trip In the winter she is a ski instructor and in the summer she is working in Mallorca. I love reading so you will find bookshelves all over the house.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

You will meet more interesting people. I can't afford to sleep in a hostel everyday and I like to welcome people in my own special home with one dog , a cat and one chicken. I never had a television but I have loads of DVDs and a screen of course

Interests

Reading, travelling, swimming in open water but in winter in a nice warm pool, skiing, trekking (grand-randonnees), belly-dancing.
Going to the movies. I have a cinevillepas. So I go nearly everyday to the movies..
If the weather is too bad to go to the moviesI am looking one of my 500 DVDs.

• cats
• dogs
• books
• dancing
• instructor
• partying
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• camping
• skiing
• swimming
• teaching
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Folk music or world-music, music from the seventies
Movies ; Ida, Amy, Latcho drome,, Bloody Sunday, La vita e Bella, Novicento, isralian series Prisoners of war,nighttrain to Lisboa,The pianist etc, etc.
I have thousands of books. My favourite authors are : Meir Shalev, Amos Oz, David Grosmann, Amy Bloom, Siegfried Lenz,, Hans Fallada, Charles Lewinsky, Giorgio Bassani

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

To give birth on the age of 43 to the most beautiful girl you have ever seen. (that's what all the parents say about their child, but it is true!)
In 1973 I squatted a farm near Amsterdam and I have been living there till 1993.
There we had the most amazing parties you can imagine

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a teacher for 42 years but what other people can learn from me is up to them. I am a live scientist with a lot of stories.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Life and travel stories. Talking about books and movies and how we can leave in peace together.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands Antilles, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Israel, Netherlands