mother of 2 sons (almost 11 and 9), didn't get to travel much for a while due to sad circumstances but try to catch up on it now with and without my kids...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've always wanted to try couchsurfing, thought it was a great idea, and would like to accept guest, too, after I made my first experiences couchsurfing myself and talked to some couchsurfers about how things work...

Interests

writing short stories and books, blogging, going to alternative events like poetry slams, live gigs of bands nobody knows, films that will never be shown in a cinema, being among people... I love (big) cities like New York, London, Paris, Prague, Edinburgh, Berlin and when I travel I usually rent a "real" appartment in a "real" neighborhood via airbnb and try life in that city - which is very easy when you travel with kids cause once you've appeared at the same ping-pong table in the same parc at the same time of the day three days in a row you'll definitely have new friends...

• writing
• books
• poetry
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• blogging
• guitar
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Almost Famous, Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight, Love Song for Bobby Long and many more
Books: every book by Helge Timmerberg, a travelling reporter from Germany
Music: Leonard Cohen, Jakob Dylan, Grayson Capps and many more - rock music and singer/songwriter

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

lived in Berlin in the 90ies when it was still raw and unfinished and dirty and rundown and still had the Love Parade going on

Teach, Learn, Share

well, many of you seem eager to learn how to cook dishes from other countries - I can offer to teach you Königsberger Klopse, which is a very old-school German dish;
I'm interested in learning different languages, so please teach me a sentence or two (but not just curses and filthy words ;-))
I definitely want to learn how to play the guitar better (I can only play one cool song which is "All day and all night" by Jakob Dylan)

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Scotland, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States