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Overview

  • 2 references
  • Fluent in Czech, English; learning French, Russian, Ukrainian
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2015
  • No occupation listed
  • film and theatre studies, Czech language
  • From Pilsen, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic
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About Me

My name is Veronika, I was born in Pilsen and currently work & live in Prague. I will gladly recommend you a good breweries, cafés and other places to enjoy good drinks etc. I won't be able to acommodate you currently, probably, but will be glad to meet you and chat about coffees, movies, books etc.
I work in National Film Archive (NFA), write for on-line magazine about film and new media 25fps.cz and collaborate with Noir Film Festival at Křivoklát Castle and Festival of Film Animation (PAF) in Olomouc.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to travel. It started with visiting Scotland for few times, hitchhiking in Provence, France and continued with journeys to various places, such as Lviv, Ukraine, Budapest, Hungary, or Cyprus.

Interests

Sports: table tennis (great game, should be more appreciated), swimming
Reading, listening to radio plays, watching movies and "quality TV", theatre plays...

  • books
  • festivals
  • drinking
  • movies
  • reading
  • tv
  • traveling
  • sports
  • tennis
  • swimming
  • table tennis
  • animation
  • communications
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

John Grant (all his solo work so far), Sinéad O'Connor (many records, especially Universal Mother and Gospel Oak EP), Okean Elzy, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Nina Hynes, Bee and Flower, Elena Stone, Czech music: Vltava, Ta Jana z Velké Ohrady

Sztuczki aka Tricks (dir. by Andrzej Jakimowski), Imagine (dir. by Andrzej Jakimowski), Little Miss Sunshine (dir. by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris), Butcher Boy (dir. by Neil Jordan), The Winter Guest (dir. by Alan Rickman) + TV shows: Community, Breaking Bad, Wallander (UK), Case Histories, Twin Peaks, Red Dwarf, IT Crowd, Futurama, Jeeves and Wooster and many others

Books: where to start? I will just mention few authors: Nick Cave, Roald Dahl, Anthon Chekhov, Venedikt Yerofeyev, John Kennedy Toole, Kurt Vonnegut and many others

Videogames: The Last Express, Atlantis, Dust, Titanic, Spycraft, Gabriel Knight 2, Broken Sword 1 and 2, Neverhood, Grim Fandango, Gone Home, Stanley Parable, Papers, Please etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

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