CURRENT MISSION

live my life 100% and try to give all my positive energy to everyone around me; starting with a smile and a helping hand

ABOUT ME

I like to spend my time with friends: from a nice chat with a glass of good wine to dance in the middle of the night or doing other crazy things..
I'm salsaholic, tango passionated, love cooking, photography, running, pilates, traveling, reading, writing, cycling, hiking and much more. :)

PHILOSOPHY

All the flowers
of all the tomorrows
are in the seeds of today.

"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it" (Rosilia de Castro)

"How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way."

"You are only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

28/7/2008: nothing yet.. but I heard only good things from friends. So I'm very curious to experience this CSproject!

10/8/2008: I just need to kick off from a very nice weekend with my first surfers.. a really great experience with amazing people! If every experience gonna end like this, I think I'm gonna become addicted.. ;)

5/10/2008: I never thought I would met so many nice people in my own city; it's a great way to make new friends and not only from abroad!

31/3/2009: After a small CS-break, I'm ready to host again! Besides that I'm going to visit my first surfers.. yeah!

17/6/2009: Life is going on.. hosted more great people; what a wonderful world! This summer I will try to surf in Iceland.. curious about this experience :)

11/8/2009: Surf experience in Iceland was great! Not always easy, certainly adventurous and sometimes encounters with really adorable people! (So the difficulties are more than worth it) I'm hungry for more.. :)

28/10/2009: When I was planning to go to Madrid I was looking through the posts in the Madrid-group and suddenly I saw a message from a guy that I must know from somewhere....
Couchsurfing makes the world so small!! I danced a salsa in Reykjavik with this guy from NY who didn't know couchsurfing at all that time.
Amazing.. the same weekend I was in Madrid he was there too.. and yes, we danced at least one salsa together! :)

After my remarks maybe an overview of the facts ;)

CS-hosting experiences:
2008:
- Paulina (Mexico City, Mexico)
- Ula (Lublin, Poland) and Carlo (Milano, Italy nowadays living in Copenhagen)
- Aleksander (Gdynia, Poland)
- Greg (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Marte and Jess (Wisconsin, United States)
- Hakky (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
- Pablo (Manizales, Colombia)
- Bart (Antwerpen, Belgium)
- Manu (Valenciennes, France)
- Ait (Fontaine, France)
- Daan (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2009:
- Maikel (Oss, Netherlands)
- Xavier (Lille, France)
- Andreas (Aachen, Germany)
- Florence (Valenciennes, France)
- Nico (Aachen, Germany)
- François (Bailleul, France)
- Diego (Antwerp, Belgium)
- Dani (Argentina)
- Andrew & Elizabeth (Baltimore, United States)
- Colomba (Santiago, Chile)
- Tomer (Sede Warburg, Israel)
- Davide (Bolzano, Italy)
- Andrea (Venice, Italy)
- Ula & Marco (Milano, Italy)
- Marie-Line (Ostend, Belgium)
- Bart (Deinze, Belgium)
- Joeri (Ardooie, Belgium)
- Marie-Line (Oostende, Belgium)
- Jeroen (Izegem, Belgium)
2010:
- José (Barcelona, Spain)
- Nils (Genk, Belgium)
- Linda (Marseille, France)
2011:
-Joaquim Valente (Luxembourg)

CS-surfing experiences:
2008:
- Flo (Milano, Italy)
- Andrea (Milano, Italy)
- Jeremy (Lyon, France)
- Joaquim (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
- Daan (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
- Jeremy (Lyon, France)
2009:
- Neha (Milano, Italy)
- Massimo (Milano, Italy)
- Xavier (Lille, France)
- Agnieszka (Wroclaw, Poland)
- Ula & Ewa (Lublin, Poland)
- Liesbet (Ghent, Belgium)
- Rémi (Chelles, France)
- Emilie (London, UK)
- Fridrik (Reykjavik, Iceland)
- Piotrek (Skogar, Iceland)
- Þráinn (Egilsstadir, Iceland)
- Andrea (Venice, Italy)
- Madel (Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardegna)
- Raph (Marseille, France)
- Sergio and Katy (Madrid, Spain)
- Patricia (Charleroi, Belgium)
- Bart (Deinze, Belgium)
2010:
- Asia (Brussels, Belgium)
- Sabine (Merano, Italy)
- Marco & Ula (Milano, Italy)
- Flo (Paris, France)
- Raph (Marseille, France)
- Linda (Marseille, France)
- Florian (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2011:
- Nicolas (Lille, France)
- Katja (Köln, Germany)

Interests

I'm interested in art, culture, people, nature, etc..
I love theatre, dance, books, music; in fact all good things in life!

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• photography
• dancing
• tango
• cooking
• wine
• pilates
• running
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• magic
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• swimming
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

music: I like music a lot, different kinds from classical to jazz, worldmusic, pop, rock etc..
(examples of my current favorites: Dulce Pontes, Gabriel Rios, La Troba Kung-Fù, Laura Lopéz-Castro, Le trio Joubran, Lula Pena, Roy Paci & Aretuska, ...)

movies: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Un long dimanche de Fiançailles, Chocolat, Breaking the waves, The Idiots, Das Leben der Anderen, Before sunrise, Before sunset, La double vie de Véronique, Trois couleurs: Bleu-blanc-rouge, Verlengd weekend, Fargo, La meglio gioventù, The pillow book, Shortbus, Twelve monkeys, La vita è bella, Funny games, Pulp fiction, Babel, Where is the friends home?, Cashback, etc...

books: my passion are art books and poetry, besides that I try to read a good book whenever I can (mostly on the train); examples: The unbearable lightness of being (Kundera), Een schitterend gebrek (Arthur Japin), Tangoheart (Elia Barcelo), Elf minuten (Paulo Coelho), De walgvogel (Jan Wolkers), Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), Maus (Art Spiegelman) .... also the work of Alberto Moravia, Umberto Ecco, Roald Dahl, Harry Mulish, Simone de Beauvoir, etc..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

swimming naked in the ocean under the stars.. also slept in a tent on a magical beach where I saw the moon coming out of the water and 8 hours later the sun..
But sometimes just a smile on a face can be so amazing and gives you real magic in life!

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to learn from each other, exchange ideas on an easy way..

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Netherlands

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