STATUS: I am out of town.

Right now, I live in a caravan in a land shared with more 2 families. You can sleep outside in a tent. I have a dry toilet outside, and shower (very improvised one, bucket with an installed shower (it gets more or less 8L inside) and the hot water is in 6L plastic bottles inside a small greenhouse . There's a small fridge and it's possible to cook, there's electricity inside the van, but no internet. It's not possible to wash clothes once I don't have a machine. The land is very beautiful, it's around 1.5h , the river passes by.

ABOUT ME: I am Inês Sambas, (you can call me Sambas), I am 28 years old and I have been living in Montemor-o-Novo.
I am a filmmaker and photographer, I also make design, I play guitar, bass, whatever, I build diy structures with wood, I started my agroforest, I collect wild seeds, I meditate, I am doer.
As a filmmaker I film old crafts, agroecological projects, tradicional music, video dance etc.

I found Montemor, travelling by bike, and I felt in love. It was my first stop and it was enough to say, this is where I want to live. Still, I travelled during a year, through Spain, France and then I flight to India. When I came back, I had no doubts about it, 3 years passed.

For whoever wants to come, just make sure you want to be on the nature as you would probably be in wild camping.

Montemor-o-Novo is a place full of creativity, beautiful people and surrounded by nature in Alentejo region, Portugal.
I am very happy to have a house where I can welcome everybody, after all these years sleeping in someone's house, being welcomed by so many people. Please be welcome, let's share!

You can also check my work here: https://inessambas.wixsite.com/portefolio

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Travel is what I think most. I have been using couchsurfing since 2016 maybe. I used it around Europe while I did interrail, or travelled by bike, and also in India, I met wonderful people, wonderful places, and for me it's the best way to travel, to meet local people, to share experiences, opinions, food, etc. Since I do it, I feel so happy for the hospitality of others that I immediately had the dream to receive others in my place to. Finally I can do it, even though is very primitive. I am also in other platforms I use a lot warmshowers, but also available on bewelcome and trustroots.

Interests

Music, Cinema, Photography, Visual Arts, Books (not commercial), People, Travelling etc.

• graphic design
• photography
• music festivals
• vegetarian
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• live music
• world music
• spiritual
• permaculture
• dance
• playing guitar
• self-development
• independent cinema
• self-sustainability
• playing bass

Music, Movies, and Books

The Tibetan book of Life and Death
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Atlas of the body and the imagination (Gonçalo M. Tavares), L'Existentialisme et la sagesse des nations (Simone de Beauvoir)

MUSIC:
Right now I listen mostly folk, traditional music, gipsy, world music.

I actually have a music project:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwFI5A_FvXJNJarH9AsoHMQ

FILM:
All from Tony Gatlif, 3 Iron (Kim Ki Duk), Volver (Pedro Almodóvar), In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa), The Waward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang), Baraka (Ron Fricke), Daises + Fruits of Paradise (Vera Chytilová), Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan), Joven y Alocada ( Marialy Rivas), Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe) , Elephant (Gus Van Sant), Dancer In The Dark (Lars Von Trier), Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July), Space Is The Place (Sun Ra, John Coney), The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Nan Goldin - I Remember Your Face (Sabin Lidl), Pierrot Le Fou (Jean Luc Godard), The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick), Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-Eda), Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku), Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook), How To Live In The German Federak Republic (Harun Farocki), , Lost Highway (David Lynch), Mind Game (Masaaki Yusa), The Tatami Galaxy (Masaaki Yuasa), Waking Life (Richard Linklater), 2001: A Sapce Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick), Irreversible (Gaspar Noé), Fifteen (Royston Tan), I'm a Cyborg and That's Ok (Park Chanwook), Confessions (Tetusya Nakashima).......

BOOKS:
Reading:
Aghora I; Rainbow Reiki; Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha, The Education of the Child (Rudolf Steiner), Luna Roja (Miranda Grey)

Siddhartha - Herman Hesse / Freedom- Osho, Atlas of the body and the imagination (Gonçalo M. Tavares), L'Existentialisme et la sagesse des nations (Simone de Beauvoir), Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami), The art of Meditation (Matthieu Ricard), Love, Utopia or Reality ( Valerio Albisetti), Obscénica (Hilda Hilst, André da Loba), O Senhor Juarroz (Gonçalo M. Tavares)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Travelling solo by bike from Portugal to France,
-Hitchhiking and meeting someone I can call today part of my family,
-Wild camping alone in the forest and listen the pure silence,
-Be in a free house in Portuguese forest with no signal, and a cold waterfall to wash and drink fresh water,
-Hitchhike to France to find work without any references,
-Living alone in a country with opposite values to mine etc.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach and Learn:
We all have something to teach and learn from each other.

Share:
Way of thinking, thoughts, knowledge, culture, experience, philosophy, photography, video skills, music, meditation, time, space, food, the list is endless!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Happy moments, new friendship, a good meal, a good conversation, but mostly care and respect.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, France, India, Portugal, Slovenia