CURRENT MISSION
Riding a camel in the Australian outbacks

ABOUT ME
Five years ago, after I got my bachelor degree in Chemistry, I started learning Russian and I ended up staying on a Ukrainian farm for six months. Then I hitchhiked towards Mongolia, crossing the Black and the Caspian Sea by boat, and came back through Russia. In the end I actually spent more time in Kazakhstan and being on the way than I actually was in Mongolia but it was worth it. After an unsuccessful attempt to settle down in Belgium I decided to go to Central America. I hitchhiked all around, from Mexico to Panama, and lived in the jungle of Costa Rica for almost a year. I am back on my old continent now, and making my way around here, studying Soil Sciences in Belgium, Austria and Germany.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think this is the best way to meet kind, interesting, inspiring people and have a sense of normal every day life while travelling, or a sense of travelling while living your every day life

Interests

I would describe myself as a calm, respectful and open-minded person.
I think I have a preference for listenning to other people talking but there are some topics on which I could talk about for hours.
I like animals, forests, lakes and mountains, being outside, walking, discovering abandonned urban places, climbing and sharing comfortable silences with comfortable people.
I read a lot and I play music sometimes.
Once in a while I really crave for a coffee with a cigarette and chocolate.

• dancing
• reading
• music
• piano
• camping
• chemistry
• ecology
• history
• languages
• hitchhiking
• mountains
• adventure
• climbing
• tekno

Music, Movies, and Books

Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, Sylvain Tesson, Harry Mulisch, Albert Camus, Alain Fournier, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Enrique Vila-Matas, Khalil Gibran, Jules Verne, Chaim Potok, Jared Diamond, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Jean Racine, Milan Kundera, Théophile Gautier, Toon Tellegen, Gustave Flaubert, Tommy Wieringa, Stendhal, Voltaire... And so many more!
These ten books are the first ones I'd fill my library with once I'll have a place for myself: Sur les chemins noirs, The brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, Le Grand Meaulnes, Antigone, La princesse de Clèves, Narziss and Goldmund, Toon Tellegen's philosophical tales and Le petit prince

I like French, Russian, Icelandic and Argentinian movies a lot (René Laloux, Gilles Lelouche, Agnès Varda, Roger Spottiswood, Oliver Stone, Marcelo Piñeyro, Werner Harzog, Andrej Zwiagintsev, Yuri Bykov, Ísold Uggadóttir, Noah Baumbach, Vladimir Motyl, Benedict Erlingsson)

Here are a few artists of a long list of musicians I like to listen to: Joy Division, The Cure, The Velvet Underground, Eskorbuto, Animales Muertos, Kortatu, Cool Kids of Death, Pink Floyd, Prodigy, System of a down, Noir Désir, Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs, Louise Attaque, Georges Brassens, Kino, Solstàfir, Sigur Ros, TomTom club, Bach, Tchaikovski, Shubert, Mendelssohn, Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Mercedes Sosa, Charly Garcia, Spinetta, Sumo, Boris Brejcha, Cedar Walton, John Fahey, Thelonious Monk... And the list goes on

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping in a fairy chimney in Capaddocia, Turkey
Hitchhiking, wild camping and dumpster diving in Iceland for 6 weeks
Hitchhiking 20 000 km, from Amsterdam to Mongolia, and back
Learning and speaking Russian
Living in a hut in the jungle of Costa Rica for almost a year

What I Can Share with Hosts

I usually try to cook at least one meal for my host, a simple meal but it has lots of love and gratitude

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belize, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, France, Netherlands, Ukraine