UPDATE: I'm often abroad and have sold my bus-house. Usually can't host, but feel free to reach out and try!

I'm a political activist, using a my technological and business skills to create a change in the region I'm from.

I love arts. I study contemporary dance, and I play the ney flute.
I enjoy doing things the old way - I’m a beekeeper for my beehive. I make wine and beer, I bake bread. I have a tiny darkroom in which I print my film photography.

I’m a huge fan of open source and the free software movement. I do my best to take part in small to large scale projects as I believe knowledge should be available for everyone. I used to run a small company for web development, working mostly with NGOs and political organizations.

I lived in Vancouver, Canada when I was 14, then with my aunt in Israel when I was 15.
Quit school when I was 16 and traveled a lot since then. I'm a peace activist and a vegetarian.

I currently live in a bus that I made into a home. It's the best house in the world!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I joined CS when I was living in Acre (Israel) because I enjoyed taking part and hearing about other peoples' experiences in Israel. I loved the spirit of it, and so I've been couchsurfing many times when I was traveling through Europe later on. Took me some time to build my new home but now I'm curious to try and host again.

Interests

good music, photography, modern dancing, running, sailing, developing great and meaningful websites, drawing, singing and playing guitar, hiking and backpacking, israel's desert

checkout my flickr photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/ramatayim/

• arts
• singing
• photography
• contemporary dancing
• vegetarian
• vegan
• running
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• backpacking
• sailing
• bee keeping
• wine making
• beer brewing
• free software & open source

Music, Movies, and Books

velvet underground, yann tiersen, radiohead, sigur rós, beatles, mum, iliketrains, iron & wine, air, album leaf, asian dub foundation, beck, beirut, belle & sebastian, bjork, bon iver, bonnie price billy, explosions in the sky, cocorosie, neil young, nina simone, police, serge gainsbourg, smiths, sufjan stevens

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've built a house inside an old bus and now it's my home! see it @ http://bus.house

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you how to make a darkroom and develop your own film, and I can show you how fun it is to stick a piece of grass in your nose. we can even do it together. i'm also a computer expert so I can help you with that :-)

my family makes both beer and red wine, so I can tell you all about it!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Iceland, Israel, Sweden, United States