We are Mar and Neus from Barcelona. Mar is a therapeutic and social drama facilitator, contact juggler and reiki master. Neus is an animal behaviourist, reiki master and holistic therapist. We have been travelling around New Zealand and Australia for the last three months and have now just arrived to Vietnam where we are starting our trip around South East Asia. We are finding this an amazing experience, learning so much and enjoying every moment. Travelling is one of our passions!

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

We love travelling, meeting new people and getting to discover new places, cultures and ways of living. We both think meeting people from where you travel is the best way to learn about the place you are visiting. Also, we believe each person you encounter in your life adventures gives you something, whether you meet for 5 minutes or one week. Meeting people from all over helps you learn and open your mind in ways nothing else does. Couchsurfing is a great opportunity to experience this!

兴趣

We love theatre, cinema, arts, nature, spirituality, queer culture and holistic therapies.

I (Mar) am also a contact juggler. If you are curious about it you can search videos in YouTube, it is an amazing form of juggling that mesmerises adults and children alike! I like many other types of circus arts as well and I am always interested in learning new things.

• animals
• arts
• culture
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• juggling
• volunteering
• tours

音乐、电影和书籍

We are both big fans of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (we try to attend the screening of the film with entertainment in every country we visit, and... yes, we love dressing up for it!). On the same line, we both love Hedwig & the angry inch (the soundtrack is amazing!), Le fate ignoranti or Pride.

Apart from that, here are our individual tastes:

Mar: I am a massive Morrissey, The Smiths and Bowie fan. Other singers/bands I love are Antony and the Johnsons, Patti Smith, The Cure, Pixies, Dusty Springfield, Björk or Massive Attack. I also like different types of music (jazz, world music, 70s, 80s...) and I am always open to discover new bands or genres. I really do love music!
I am a big cinema lover as well, which makes it hard to pick, but apart from the ones mentioned above, some of the films that have had an impact on me are Land and Freedom, My beautiful laundrette, Seven Samurai, Dersu Uzala, The Lord of the Rings trilogy or Labyrinth (as a child I was obsessed with the latter, I could recite all the script by heart!). Some of my favourite directors include Ken Loach, John Waters or Akira Kurosawa.
Regarding books, Lolita, Siddhartha or Sophie's World had a huge impact on me as a teenager. Some writers I love are John Irving or Julio Cortázar.
I also enjoy TV series like Lost, Black Mirror, Orange is the new black or Game of Thrones.

Neus: I like very different types of music ranging from ABBA to meditative music, and including Massive Attack, Raffaela Carrà, African drumming, 70s, 80s, musicals or operas like Carmen.
I like documentaries, independent cinema and animated films. Some films I love are Chocolat, Amelie and Big Fish. Again I love musicals and never get tired of films like Grease, Dirty Dancing or Mamma Mia.
I find it hard to pick just some books as favourites, but I love reading about holistic therapies, spirituality, quantum physics, queer culture or animal behaviour.
TV series that I like include Charmed, Dragon Ball, Murder she wrote, Xena the warrior princess and Modern Family.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Life is full of amazing things! But if we had to choose...

Mar: volunteering in a Children Home in Thailand, near the Burma border. It was the most incredible and rewarding experience that I have had in my life so far. Those children taught me so much, even about myself, and spending time with them was so magical, intense and life changing. Helping others is probably the most amazing thing one can do, and I am hoping to do it again soon!

Neus: I volunteered in an Elephant Sanctuary in Thailand (Elephant Nature Park); helping these amazing and intelligent creatures that had a hard time in the past (being tortured to be used in trekking tours or logging camps) to recover and enjoy a better life in the sanctuary, made me feel that I was, in a way, healing the human-animal relationship in this world.

我游览过的国家

Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

我居住过的国家

Spain, United Kingdom