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Overview

  • 18 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German, Spanish
  • 40, Other
  • Member since 2008
  • Trying to live just.
  • Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • From Opdorp, Flanders
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Finding my path in life and in the universe.

ABOUT ME

I'm an average to alternative guy, seems funny to say about myself but I reckon that's what other people would say. I have a diploma Social and Cultural Anthropology. I play volleybal. I have good meaningfull relationship. I also have a band of friends whom you will love at first sight. We're still a bit wild but I presume that will pass as the years tick away.

PHILOSOPHY

Try to do good. Especially don't hurt or offend people and if you do by accident try to fix it or at least apologize.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My dear friend Waldo learned me what CS was and is.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

From time to time I'll randomly surf somebody's couch when I'm on holiday. We did a lot of couchsurfing in the USA when we had our road trip there.

Interests

- volleybal
- anthropology
- different cultures and ways of life
- history
- music (listening and playing a little bit guitar)
- hitchhiking
- backpacking
- long distance walking
- trekking
- traveling in general
- nature preferably wild and untamed
- finding my path of life
- exploring the mind
- exploring the earth
- environment/ecology
- just chatting and joking round campfire or in nice couches
- Scandinavia
- making wine (my first own corked bottles, waaaw)

  • environment
  • wine
  • walking
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • camping
  • anthropology
  • ecology
  • history
  • hitchhiking
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Big Fish, Apocalyps Now, Dances with Wolves, a Clockworks Orange, Anyway the wind blows, Goodbye Lenin, Land and freedom, Legends of the fall, Sin City, Twelve Monkees, Ten Canoes, Dr Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Thin Red Line, Across the universe, Lord of the Rings...

Music: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Two Gallants, Deus, Admiral Freebee, The Band, Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, Pixies, Bob Marley, the Cure, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, Buffalo Springfield, Jimi Hendrix, Randy, Rudy Trouve, Johnny Cash, Pearl Jam, ...

Books: De kleine Johannes, the Hobbit, 1984, anything from Tolkien, Heart of Darkness, Les tristes tropiques, A song of fire and ice...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing things I did where holidays. Go hiking in Norway and some other European countries (we always camp in the wild, it's so much fun to find a place to sleep every night, it makes it a bit dangerous), hithhiking to the Alps in Austria, help building in Bosnia after the war, living with Amish in Pennsylvania, roadtripping from LA to NY, propped-full minivan roadtrip to Norway, walking 800km from Saint-Jean-Pied-du-Port to Santiago de Compostella, long distance hiking in the Dolomite Mountains, riding the Tran-Siberian train from St-Peterburg to Moscow and then all the way to Beijing, traveling through China and Tibet to Nepal, hiking in the Himalyas, riding a crapy bike across parts of Southeast Asia, visiting New Zealand and doing lots and lots of tramping there, backpacking in South America,...

Teach, Learn, Share

This one is difficult. I guess my own nature is a bit too modest to find something I can teach people. I`ll probably can teach you a little bit about all of my hobbies listed above. Except for body parts and my girlfriend I want to share everything with you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Laos, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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