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Overview

  • 24 references 18 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Russian, Spanish
  • 51, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • in time I´m traveling and volunteering
  • University (business adm.) and Decorator
  • From Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

discover the world

ABOUT ME

Hmmm, it´s always difficult to describe yourself I guess .... courios, open mind, and with a faible for books, animals and nature, long hiking tours and travels.
In April 2023 I started a tour in Centralasia, now 2024 back in Europe, in Greece and Italy and hope to meet some locals and other travelers with CS; after the long corona -break....

PHILOSOPHY

You haven´t time to wait for tomorrow...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently i am just surfing, because I have no appartment and no couch - I am travelling and working/ volunteering since 2008 (yes, no mistake... the 17. year now) around the world..... but I hope to give all this great experiences back to other travellers one day...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I started 2010 with CS in Southamerica and had wonderful experiences there, and now I want meet everywhere new people on this way - and give this good experience back to other persons as well, when I can host somebody (as yet I only surfed couches)

Interests

reading books, writing letters,cinema and concerts, friends, nature, hiking and cycling, animals - esp. dogs, goats and donkeys, etc.... and traveling

  • animals
  • writing
  • books
  • concerts
  • cooking
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • knitting
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • tours
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

the book "Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker" (John Irving), Terry Pratchett,... and many, many more - I can't live without books !!!

...and also not without music - I like Ska, Reggae, Worldmusic, african and arabic songs,...good music, never mind the genre.

I like go to cinema as well(because I have no TV at home), but I have no favorit movie

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

...shipping on river niger in Mali to Timbuktu
...hiking tour in the dogon area
in Mali
...to stay in Lalibela/ Ethiopia and hiking tour through simien mountains
...7-months-hiking tour through whole europe
...to spent 3 years in eastern europe
with my bicycle
...to cross the border to Honduras in a small boat
...5-days-Hiking-Tour to the "ciudad perdita" in Columbia
...hitch - hiking out of the flooded jungle in Bolivia
... in centralasia i learned to milk a yak and a horse

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to learn new things everytime; hmmm... what can I teach or share: german cooking, knitting socks... and I could teach some German, if you want.

What I Can Share with Hosts

good mood; positiv vibrations :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany

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