Hi guys! Welcome to my couchsurfing profile!

First of all, I'm a serious traveler. I love to get my backpack and observe with my own eyes the five corners of this planet. Therefore, I'm trying to do that!

Furthermore, even though I believe it's quite difficult to describe yourself, I will give a shot: I'm a nice, open-minded and easy-going guy with a large and beautiful family. And since we live pretty much in different countries, we have to travel constantly to share some quality moments together. Not a problem!

Apart from that, I can proudly say that I have a large number of friends in various continents. Once again, a great excuse to travel around the globe and visit my loved ones. In short, family and friendship are two pillars of my life!

Finally, at this very moment I'm traveling myself almost non-sop and it seems I became a digital nomad. That being said, I have no means of hosting surfers, however I would be up for a walk, beach, a night out or something like that.

Fully Vaxxed against Covid19!!!! ***

Happy travels!!!
Gregor.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

- Making new friends from all around the world.
- Sharing our experiences and culture.
- Making the most of every single trip.

Interests

Well, I have to say that my interests represent a large number of subjects. Nevertheless, here you will see some of them!

• TRAVELING!
• Nature
• Wildlife conservation
• Sports
• Outdoor activities
• Friendship
• Reading
• Music
• Languages
• Cultural diversity
• Cinema
• Photography
• Art
• Science

• wildlife
• arts
• photography
• cooking
• coffee
• meditation
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• backpacking
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• sports
• languages
• science
• language exchange
• beaches
• nature
• friendship
• meeting new people
• gastronomy
• veganism
• vegetarian cooking
• hanging out with friends

Music, Movies, and Books

Here's a list of some fantastic books I have had the pleasure to read!

• Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
• Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
• Blindness (José de Saramago)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Fiedrich Nietzsche)
• The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
• The Little Prince (‎Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
• Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
• To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
• My Plant of Orange-Lime (Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos)
• Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
• Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Stories and Poems (Rubén Darío)
• Liquid Modernity (Zygmunt Bauman)
• The Art of Happiness (Dalai Lama)
• Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Plato)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
• Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano)
• The Awakening of Intelligence (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
• On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)

Cool music (at least for me!)

• Rock
• Indie Rock
• Brazilian Rock (Legião Urbana, Barão Vermelho, Cazuza, etc)
• Samba/MPB
• Tango / Electrotango
• Jazz
• Electronic
• Some pop music as well

Films: (By the way, I'm a sort of a Netflix addicted. Lol!)

• The Godfather
• Star Wars
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Pianist
• Pulp Fiction
• Metropolis
• Central do Brasil (Central Station)
• Tropa de Elite I & II (Elite Squad I & II)
• Cidade de Deus (City of God)
• Cinema Paradiso
• La Dolce Vita
• La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty)
• La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)
• Historias Intimas (Intimate Stories)
• El Hijo de la Novia (Son of the Bride)
• Relatos Salvajes (Wile Tales)
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Life of Pi
• The King's Speech
• Gandhi
• Bicho de Sete Cabeças (Brainstorm)
• Paraísos Artificiais (Artificial Paradises)
• Match Point
• Midnight in Paris

Documentaries:

• Lixo Extraordinário (Waste Land)
• Food, Inc.
• Blackfish
• Home
• March of the Penguins
• Serra Pelada - A Lenda Da Montanha De Ouro (Serra Pelada - The Legend Of The Mountain Of Gold)
• Le Sel de la Terre (The Salt of the Earth)
• Planet Ocean
• Planet Earth
• Tropicália
• An Apology to Elephants
• An Inconvenient Truth
• Man on Wire
• Woodstock (1970)
• Inner Worlds Outer Worlds
• Virunga
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
• Exit Through the Gift Shop

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Just one? No way!

• Skydiving over Fiordland National Park (New Zealand)
• Trekking in the Himalayas (Nepal)
• Visiting some local communities in a remote area of the Caribbean coast (Nicaragua).
• Six-month trip in Southeast Asia
• Backpacking for about four months throughout India and Nepal
• New Year's Eve in Rio
• Some amazing South American trips
• Beautiful scenery and meeting some really nice people in Central America
• Traveling in certain Chinese countryside regions without speaking a single word of the local language. Lol!
• Participating in an ambitious academic research project in Kenya, sharing wonderful experiences both with colleagues and locals, and learning from the Maasai people's perspective of life

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching:

• Surfing
• Meditation

Learning:

• Mandarin Chinese (or perhaps any other interesting language)
• Cooking local dishes from other cultures

Sharing:

• Some stunning secret spots not only in my home country (Argentina) but also in Brazil, Nicaragua and Vietnam

What I Can Share with Hosts

• City and countryside walks
• Sports/Outdoor activities
• A beach day
• A nice conversation
• Language exchange
• Lunch / Dinner
• Coffee
• A few drinks (especially red wine!)
• And why not some energetic "açaí na tigela"?

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Laos, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, England, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands