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Overview

  • 24 references 21 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning French, Italian
  • 28, Other
  • Member since 2020
  • Rowing Athlete and Geography Teacher
  • Both have a Geography Degree and Geography Teaching Master´s
  • From Palmela, Setúbal, Portugal
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

We are a couple full of energy that wish to know more about this vast world 🌍 We wanna travel the world surfing couches one day! What a best way to do it by start giving before receiving.

NOTE: We do not accept requests with more than 10 days in advance.
2 nights stays are OK.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

-We wanna travel the world surfing couches one day! What a best way to do it by start giving before receiving and be part of this cycle where everyone wins!
-We love deep conversations and share of different opinions and perspectives, politics, religion, philosophy, cultural shock...

Interests

  • culture
  • politics
  • reading
  • hiking
  • camping
  • sports
  • geography
  • geopolitics
  • history
  • religion
  • nature
  • nature walks
  • vanlife

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
-Helena is that kind of person that listen all kind of music (Oh that´s what everyone says to please the public...You´r thinking) Really! She likes almost everything!
-Afonso is more specific and loves hip-hop and afrobeats, but is also capable to listen many diferent kinds of music.
-We both love portuguese and brasilian music: Zeca Afonso, Seu Jorge, Milton Nascimento, Natiruts.
-Some Reaggae is also welcome! Bob and Damian Marley, Gentleman, Matysiahu, Chronixx.
-If Trance Music starts to sound we immediately start to stomp our feet (Mandragora and Vini Vici 🤟🏼)
-We love to sit on a chair at the sun and just listen Lofi-chill HipHop/Jazz sounds!

Movies:
-Interstellar; Dallas Buyers Club! Matthew Mcconaughey is the man!
-The Platform (El Hoyo); The Arrival; Django; La Vita è Bella; Cidade de Deus.

Books:
-literature in portuguese: José Saramago, Mia Couto, Pepetela, Paulo Coelho.
-Franz Kafka, Tolstoi, Yuval Noah Harari (amazed with Sapiens), George Orwell...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We are 2 fresh geography teachers that share the ambition of making a difference in our students trough education.
We met each other in university and realised that we share a lot of common prespectives about life...got together since than... that´s one of the amazing things We´ve done :)
Beside that, Afonso went to the Olympic Games in Tokyo and Helena is trying to learn as much as she can about horses and equestrian.

Teach, Learn, Share

-The main deal is no more no less than our will to know diferent people and share with them a piece of our beautiful country.
-Beside that and our couch, we also can share with you a good chat and a good portuguese meal :) Ohhh, almost forgot, and a delicious portuguese wine if you're on to it. (We love to try diferent kinds).
We are 2 fresh Geography teachers and love it!
Right now just Helena is teaching and Afonso is a professional rower of the portuguese federation. He´s also a bit nerd in geography and usted to know all the capital citys of the world (not anymore... but he still knows some of them)!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal

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