General Information
Languages- FrenchExpert
- EnglishIntermediate
- GermanBeginner
- RussianBeginner
Groups I Belong ToCouch Information
No couch currently available for surfing. no couch available at the moment because traveling around asia
Friends (46)
Adrien Biard 28, Male Champigny-sur-Marne, Ile-de-France France Friends since April 2005 "Oh yeah this is the king" Friendship Type: Best Friend
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Julien Graillot 27, Male Paris, Ile-de-France France Friends since February 2008 "my fneighbour" Friendship Type: Close Friend
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Juliette Dubus 25, Female Paris, Ile-de-France France Friends since April 2006 "Met him first in Perth, Australia, and now he lives at 10min walk from my place so i can have a drink wth him whenever i want :)" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Michael Godwin 23, Male Perth, Western Australia Australia Friends since March 2006 "My parents hosted him." Friendship Type: Good Friend I vouched for Gaetan Ridard
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Samuel GAY 26, Male Massy, Ile-de-France France Friends since March 2005 "On a forum to go in Australia." Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Dilyara Menyasheva 21, Female Moscow, Moscow City Russia Friends since August 2008 "he hosted us" Friendship Type: Friend
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Matthieu Walter 24, Male Elsene - Ixelles, Brussels Belgium Friends since January 2002 "we've been secret lovers for 1y in brussels, watching seinfeld and getting drunk" Friendship Type: Close Friend
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Sylvain Debonnet 28, Male Paris, Ile-de-France France Friends since February 2005 "Travelled together" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Lili Dévai 21, Female Budapest, Budapest Hungary Friends since April 2009 "he's really funny always makes jokes :)" Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
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Claudia Peiris 24, Female Perth, Western Australia Australia Friends since August 2006 "he hosted me for a week at his house but talked before that" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Personal Descriptioncome discover it if you dare !
How I Participate in CSbasically by hosting people and showing them around the place I live but now that I am homeless, I think that talking about the project to people with the couchsurfing soul in them and try to make them cross the line and come into the community.CouchSurfing Experiencerock n roll stay in Stockholm (SE) at Hannu's place/
sleeping in a swag for the first time at Terry's place/
feeling home down under thanks to Miss and Mister Godwin !!/ playing action or action with 2 russian girls/being hair cutted by the best hairdresser of LA!/getting drunk with some guest for his birthday night/ate for the first time gritchka when i woke up/met some real good friends through CS/ and lots of more ...
the experience is not finished and I hope you ll be a part of it.
InterestsInternet and Telecommunication that s basically my jobs
Travels my #1 hobbies and way to spend my money
Tv Shows or any otaku way to lose your time while in a city (yes i grew up with japanim and american tv show :p
Music : rockNroll, electronic music a bit of everything but everything... i can like every kind of music.. just depends the artists or mood at the moment />
Sport : rock climbing (till i m not scared of the hight), hiking (no best way to enjoy nature), sumo (since i went to Japan i love these big guys !! :D , Martial Arts (but long time not practiced.. ://
PhilosophyLife is a game : enjoy it , break the rule but never forget the goal is not to win but to have fun !Music, Movies, BooksCrap or weirdos movies but good cinema too.
Rock music is my #1
Books : i can't say i'm a big reader but i like barjavel or paulo coelho.Types of People I enjoyFunny and/or crazy people, not locked in one way of thinking. Able to understand new things and see further than what they've been taught at school or watched on TV.
TRUE PEOPLE!Teach, Learn, ShareI would love to learn all the things to become an Alpha Male or a Special Agent.
I would be able to teach how to say not funny jokes or to look stupid.
I can share my sister or parents if you bring me some DrPepper
One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done- Tongario Crossing under a rainy stormy day
- Quit my job and flat for traveling and do the
- Mongol rally 2009 (http://mongolrally.kikooboo.com)
Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org Projectan awesome way to meet and share with people but badly, sometimes taken a bit too seriously by some of its folks.
Locations TraveledTRAVELED: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, United States LIVED: Australia, Belgium, France WANTS TO GO: Canada, Iceland, Japan References
From NOMAD® Villeurbanne, France Nov 6 Positive Gaetan requested my couch with his friend but unfortunately I have only one place in my bed in Penang guesthouse so they take a spare room. We make a full tour of Penang Island by motorbike to bath in the sea, waterfall and go on the top of bukit genting. It was a great day full of surprises. I really appreciate his personality and have a lot of laugh together.
From Alexandre Agassian Penang, Malaysia Nov 5 Positive I met Gaetan in Penang, for a gathering. It was nice to meet a french. I had a good chat with him and enjoyed his travel stories. Hope to meet you again one of these days.
From Bruno Laurent Montpellier, France Oct 27 Positive I meet Gaetan at the Overstay in bangkok and with two other girls, we plan to travel by hitchhiking in Isaan together. It was just a good time and good meeting with Thai people.He is easy going, easy traveling and like me he like too much computer. I hope to travel again with him to continue our adventures. Have a good time in yours travel my friend.
From Romain CASSAM-CHENAI Versailles, France Oct 4 Positive We met in Tokyo and spend some time together chilling and joking about anything stupid we could think about.
From Laura Muyldermans Brussels, Belgium Oct 3 Positive Great guy to hang around in Tokyo. We had a lot of fun with watching some of Tokyo's creazy inhabitants ;)
And we became big fans of the sumooo. We just miss some extra stong gel to style our hair.
And he's also a bit a loser, he didn't dare it to climb the mount fuji! ;)
From Lili Dévai Budapest, Hungary Apr 20 Positive Gaetan hosted me in Paris, it was my first couchsurfing-experience, i met his mother, his sister, who were nice as Gaetan is. He is a really good tour guide in Paris, who could show or suggest good places, museums, parks. i really enjoyed the time with him, it was funny. merci beaucoup pour tout! and best wishes to your trip in asia!
From KAMEL THE FRENCHY Paris, France Apr 17 Positive Really funny guy, always up for having fun .
From Jade Yip Hong Kong Island, China Apr 17 Positive This guy is amazing!! sooo fun to be around. has a thing for elastics tho...and he likes to fight little asian girls. good thing i know kung fu! ahahaha...but seriously, any guy who would walk around in public with pigtails is just awesome in my books!
From Alli Waxler Bordeaux, France Mar 23 Positive Gaetan was so nice! And so were his flat mate and friends! The gave us beers, showed us the city at night, made us pizzas AND breakfast! They were definitely amazing and friendly!
From Egle Kabelyte Vilnius, Lithuania Sep 21, 2008 Positive hey!!!! sorry, it took me so long to write a reference..you know, sometimes it happens;] but! it doesn't mean something was not right, on the contrary! staying with you and your flatmate and neighbourgs was really really nice. we felt like at home.
from time to time think about paris and all the good time i had there, and you guys are also in those good memories ;] thanks! and hope to see you again!
From Dilyara Menyasheva Moscow, Russia Aug 29, 2008 Positive ooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! thanks a lot for cs i found these great persons!!!! Gaetan is our love! at 1st we met on friday party and then in a day we came to live at his place) i ll never forget Action or action when i crept in the center of Paris and Gaetan danced with a cone) He took us to Orleans to the house of his parents ( his parents r great), it s a very beautiful city, we came back at 2 a m to Paris and then had a big walk in night)
His friends are great persons!
And Shatton s the best teacher of badfrenchwordslanguage)) he s a gifted person, who works all the time and he has great sense of humour)
we miss u, guys!!!!
THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!
From Juliette Dubus Paris, France Aug 17, 2008 Positive We lived in the same room in a backpacker in Perth and he showed me the city!
Now i still see him really often and i like to have a drink with him and his couch surfing mates!
(and i shot him at the paint ball héhé)
From Sanna Vögeli Bern, Switzerland Jul 29, 2008 Positive I could surf Gaetans couch in very last minute, thanks a lot for that!!! It was a pitty that we didn't get to know each other more, Gaetan and his friend Chatton are really nice guys, very open-minded and so hospitable! Thanks!
From Sera Sheppard Saskatoon, Canada Jul 13, 2008 Positive These guys were great! Funny, laid back and just lots of fun! They even let us crash on their couch for an additional night after we missed our train! If you ever get a chance to host him, do it! And if you stay with him, you will love the view from his 4th floor apartment. It is quite the sight... ;)
From Ashley Gerstmar Saskatoon, Canada Jul 6, 2008 Positive My friend Sera and I stayed at his place for about 4 nights. He made us feel at home, told us where to go and even took us back in for another night when we missed our train. Great place to stay and I am sure he'd would be a good guy to host.
From Evgenia Ilienko New York, United States Nov 21, 2007 Positive i looooove gaetan and chatton! i stayed with them 4 times, because theyre the best ever.
but beware, if you stay with them, they might make you dance the macarena :)
From Matthieu Walter Elsene - Ixelles, Belgium Oct 12, 2007 Positive We have lived together in brussels during a year and it was total chaos and madness. Awesome ;)
From Olivier Mehani Sydney, Australia Oct 1, 2007 Positive This guy seems to be as crazy as I am, if not more (;
From Arth Polar Madrid, Spain Aug 18, 2007 Positive Well, as he said, we had a good laugh about canadian accent.. This guy seems to be good and funny, like every Orleans people, i guess;)
From Benoit Coudray Amsterdam, Netherlands Apr 18, 2007 Positive gars cool / cool guy
ne le faites pas boire :p
don't give him alcohol :p
From Matthew Meyer Denver, United States Aug 24, 2006 Positive Very friendly guy that is willing to show you around. Also a fun guy to sit and chat with. He is very laid back and has a good attitude on life.
From Hannu Berghall Stockholm, Sweden Aug 24, 2006 Positive Gaetan was a great gueast with an interest in Swedish rock music - we even went to a concert together. A great person to get to know; welcome back whenever!
From Claire Van Beek Auckland, New Zealand Jul 19, 2006 all the best Gaetan!! really nice guy, i wish you all the best for your travels. I'm sorry i couldntve shown you more of the sights! x claire
From Angel Chen New York, United States Jul 19, 2006 magnifique séjourne! gaetan est vraiment sympa! on a visité quelques chateaux ensemble et regardaient plusiers des films amusants... on a mangé très bien à restaurant brésilien et avaient des conversations très interessants. il est super cool et je l'adore! couchsurf avec lui!
From Terry Lewis Perth, Australia Jul 19, 2006 Gaetan surfed my swag. Gaetan is now an official West Aussie Swag-Surfer!! Gaetan and his mate flew in and out quicker than a Cottesloe seagull swoping on an errant chip! Hopefully long enough for a beer next time! - enjoy your trip! |