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Overview

  • 18 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in French; learning English, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Studying Surfing Gitaning
  • well educated (cheers mum and dad :)
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Have a blast bordel!!!

ABOUT ME

Coming back in France after one year for work in Rio.. I'm an outdoors person, wilderness lover.. I live in France (South west) by the sea and the spanish border, with the Pyrénées close by. Love ocean, can't really imagine my life without.. I brush my teeth twice a day.. Good mood, Buena Onda.. love food... .. like switchin' off the tv.. adventurous, I appreciate to get lost, Thoreau once said "Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations": Walden is a Masterpiece.

PHILOSOPHY

Well ... I like these little details who make the life so beautiful...
Some Croissant at the breakfast.. Surf till Sunset.. Eating some tapas with good friends in a out-of-the-way pub from Basque country.. the first gulp of beer...
In short, i reckon that's possible to avoid the routine even without travelling far away abroad..
Just looking around you ;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All good!

Interests

UUUfff Blooooody hell.. Plenty of things to do around the world... too many... So much to see and learn about people, culture, foreign languages, nature... that's why I'm travelling..
Sports (Surf, boxing, mountaining, beach rugby, soccer...)
Trying to be interested in all of that at maximum.. being a person with an enquiring mind... keen to learn everyday... having good fun!

  • culture
  • dining
  • breakfast
  • beer
  • drinking
  • pub crawls
  • tv
  • traveling
  • outdoor activities
  • sports
  • boxing
  • soccer
  • rugby
  • languages
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I remember very well how i was blown away the first time i've seen 'The thin red Line' (Terrence malick)... a poem..
Wes Anderson (The.Fantastic.Mr.Fox, darjeeling limited...), Kusturica, South Korean movies (Old Boy, welcome to dongmakgol..), Memento, Cidade de Deus, Elephant Man, Where the Wild Things are, Snatch, This is England, Johnny Got His Gun, Into the Wild ..ETC ...
Climbing (King Lines) & Surf (Shelter, 180° South, The Drifer) !!

Books: 'Dove' is a true story about a sixteen years old dude who sailed around the world alone... "how many seas must a white dove sail? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"
Kerouac's Books match well with CS philosophy : "But no matter, the road is life"
Amin Maalouf, Eduardo Galeano, Garcia Marquez, Dino Buzzati, Joseph Kessel, Jean Malaurie, Claude Levi Strauss, Steinbeck...

Music... Maybe like the sea I think i wouldn't live without...
What I Listen to ? I Got Eclectic Musical tastes !!!
'The Panics' from Melbourne was a very good surprise.. as well as many Aussie bands ('Angus & Julia Stone, The Middle East...), CaliforniAAA ('The Dodos', 'Best Coast'...) Kinda Brookyn Hipster Stuff (Au Revoir Simone' 'Fuck Buttons' 'Yeasayer' 'Animal Collective, 'TV on the Radio'...) Canadian Bandz (Tokyo Police Club, Clues, Arcade Fire, Born Ruffians,..)'Girls in Hawaii', belgium band, ... Ratatat, Phoenix, Nouvelle Vague, Scottish band 'LOs Campesinos' ... English bands as 'Noah and The Whale', 'Fanfarlo', 'Foals' .. Definitely some Brillant Bands like The National, Iron&Wine, MOdest Mouse, Strokes, Cold War Kids, Two Gallants, The Walkmen, Sigur Rós ... Guys like Bon Iver, Otis Redding, Beirut, Dan Auerbach, french singers 'Thomas Fersen' 'Georges Brassens', 'Seu Jorge' form Brazil, 'Gil Scott Heron', 'Chuck Ragan', 'Ben Howard', 'Xavier Rudd' ... Girls like 'Rokia Traoré' from Mali, Camille, CocoRosie, Santogold, Yvette Horner for fun, Alela Diane, ... impossible to forget Velvet Underground, Neil Young, IggyPop, ........

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living with a small tribe in Vanuatu just by an active volcano, spearfishing each morning, drinking kava, finding myself in front of a massive hammerhead shark, listening amazing stories... I'llNever forget them

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Réunion, Spain, United States, Vanuatu

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