Gaetan Ridard

Gaetan Ridard

Current Mission: "not achieved yet"

Personal Designations

Traveling at the moment Vouched for2

Community Designations

Contribution
France
Ile-de-France
Paris
Lat: 48.85341, Lon: 2.34867
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General Information

Gaetan Ridard has been vouched for
VERIFIED MEMBER Identity Checked, Location Verified (3) more info
Couch availableTraveling at the moment
CouchSurf requests replied to42%
member sinceJanuary 26th, 2005
profile views5436
age27
genderMale
membernamewosho
occupationIT & Geek stuffs
grew up inOrleans , Loiret (45)
ethnicityMonkey
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Languages

  • FrenchExpert
  • EnglishIntermediate
  • GermanBeginner
  • RussianBeginner

Groups I Belong To

Tokyo 3086:11312
Why: I ll be in Japan fron 2nd september till november
Bangkok 3123:18569
Why: cause i m in bkk now
Meeting in Bangkok 512:865
Why: cause traveling with buddies always much better
CS Meetings Paris 2895:5830
Why: I love Paris Hill Town !
Active in 11 more groups.
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Couch Information


No couch currently available for surfing.

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no couch available at the moment because traveling around asia

Friends (46)

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Adrien BiardAdrien Biard
28, Male
Champigny-sur-Marne, Ile-de-France
France
Friends since April 2005
"Oh yeah this is the king"
Friendship Type: Best Friend
Met in person  
Julien GraillotJulien Graillot
27, Male
Paris, Ile-de-France
France
Friends since February 2008
"my fneighbour"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
Met in person  
Juliette Dubus 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
Met in person   Traveled15  
Michael GodwinMichael Godwin
23, Male
Perth, Western Australia
Australia
Friends since March 2006
"My parents hosted him."
Friendship Type: Good Friend
I vouched for Gaetan Ridard
Met in person   Hosted1   Surfed6  
Samuel GAYSamuel GAY
26, Male
Massy, Ile-de-France
France
Friends since March 2005
"On a forum to go in Australia."
Friendship Type: Good Friend
Met in person  
Dilyara MenyashevaDilyara Menyasheva
21, Female
Moscow, Moscow City
Russia
Friends since August 2008
"he hosted us"
Friendship Type: Friend
Met in person   Surfed7  
Matthieu WalterMatthieu 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
Met in person  
Sylvain DebonnetSylvain Debonnet
28, Male
Paris, Ile-de-France
France
Friends since February 2005
"Travelled together"
Friendship Type: Good Friend
Met in person   Traveled30+  
Lili DévaiLili Dévai
21, Female
Budapest, Budapest
Hungary
Friends since April 2009
"he's really funny always makes jokes :)"
Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
Met in person   Surfed4  
Claudia PeirisClaudia 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
Met in person   Surfed7   Traveled7  
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Gaetan Ridard
that s me . july 2006
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Personal Description

come discover it if you dare !

How I Participate in CS

basically 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 Experience

rock 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.

Interests

Internet 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.. ://


Philosophy

Life is a game : enjoy it , break the rule but never forget the goal is not to win but to have fun !

Music, Movies, Books

Crap 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 enjoy

Funny 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, Share

I 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 Project

an awesome way to meet and share with people but badly, sometimes taken a bit too seriously by some of its folks.

Locations Traveled

TRAVELED: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, United States
LIVED: Australia, Belgium, France
WANTS TO GO: Canada, Iceland, Japan

References

 
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Roman Golyshkov
From Roman Golyshkov
 Moscow, Russia
 Nov 11
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Overstay

NOMAD®  
From NOMAD®
 Villeurbanne, France
 Nov 6
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Traveled 1 days 
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.

Alexandre Agassian 
From Alexandre Agassian
 Penang, Malaysia
 Nov 5
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
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.

Bruno Laurent 
From Bruno Laurent
 Montpellier, France
 Oct 27
Met in person Friend, Traveled 16 days 
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.

Romain CASSAM-CHENAI
From Romain CASSAM-CHENAI
 Versailles, France
 Oct 4
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Traveled 4 days 
Positive

We met in Tokyo and spend some time together chilling and joking about anything stupid we could think about.

Laura Muyldermans
From Laura Muyldermans
 Brussels, Belgium
 Oct 3
Met in person Friend,  
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! ;)

Masha Kotlyachkova
From Masha Kotlyachkova
 Moscow, Russia
 Aug 21
Met in person Acquaintance,  
Positive

Very-very nice and easy-going guy:)

Lili Dévai
From Lili Dévai
 Budapest, Hungary
 Apr 20
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 4 days  
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!

KAMEL THE FRENCHY 
From KAMEL THE FRENCHY
 Paris, France
 Apr 17
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Really funny guy, always up for having fun .

Jade  Yip
From Jade Yip
 Hong Kong Island, China
 Apr 17
Met in person Friend,  
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!

Alli Waxler 
From Alli Waxler
 Bordeaux, France
 Mar 23
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 1 days  
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!

Anton David
From Anton David
 Playa Vista, United States
 Feb 26
Met in person Friend, Surfed 1 days Traveled 8 days 
Positive

I CANT IMAGINE COUCH SURFING GETTING ANY BETTER!!!
a tour of the city ,,, dinner, drinks Just wish he was a hot chick!!! LOL>>!!
but beers with a cool dude wins everytime!!
thank you so much for making Paris "Real"
Anton David

Miriam, James, Tristram. Hillstein, van Hillstein
From Miriam, James, Tristram. Hillstein, van Hillstein
 Colchester, United Kingdom
 Oct 7, 2008
Met in person Surfed 7 days  

tea slaves don't deserve negative references.

Egle Kabelyte
From Egle Kabelyte
 Vilnius, Lithuania
 Sep 21, 2008
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 3 days  
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!

Dilyara Menyasheva
From Dilyara Menyasheva
 Moscow, Russia
 Aug 29, 2008
Met in person Friend, Surfed 7 days  
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!!!!!!!

Juliette Dubus 
From Juliette Dubus
 Paris, France
 Aug 17, 2008
Met in person Good Friend, Traveled 15 days 
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)

Sanna Vögeli
From Sanna Vögeli
 Bern, Switzerland
 Jul 29, 2008
Met in person Surfed 1 days  
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!

Sera Sheppard
From Sera Sheppard
 Saskatoon, Canada
 Jul 13, 2008
Met in person  
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... ;)

Ashley Gerstmar
From Ashley Gerstmar
 Saskatoon, Canada
 Jul 6, 2008
Met in person  
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.

Evgenia Ilienko
From Evgenia Ilienko
 New York, United States
 Nov 21, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
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 :)

Matthieu Walter
From Matthieu Walter
 Elsene - Ixelles, Belgium
 Oct 12, 2007
Met in person Close Friend,  
Positive

We have lived together in brussels during a year and it was total chaos and madness. Awesome ;)

Olivier Mehani
From Olivier Mehani
 Sydney, Australia
 Oct 1, 2007
Met in person Acquaintance,  
Positive

This guy seems to be as crazy as I am, if not more (;

Arth Polar
From Arth Polar
 Madrid, Spain
 Aug 18, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
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;)

Benoit Coudray
From Benoit Coudray
 Amsterdam, Netherlands
 Apr 18, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

gars cool / cool guy
ne le faites pas boire :p
don't give him alcohol :p

Michael Godwin
From Michael Godwin
 Perth, Australia
 Oct 26, 2006
Met in person Good Friend, Hosted 1 days Surfed 6 days  
Positive

haven't met him yet.. but my parents love him :). my parents told me "wow this great french guy" ... you are the type of frenchman who helps change my dad's (and sometimes the world's) stereotype about french people. he's trust worthy, a good conversationalist and respectful to older people (haha my folks).

you are welcome: anytime.

so i finally met him, the above was true! "shock horror"

Claudia Peiris
From Claudia Peiris
 Perth, Australia
 Aug 25, 2006
Met in person Good Friend, Surfed 7 days Traveled 7 days 
Positive

had a fabulous time with Gaetan, he looked after me well... fed me beyond belief (thanks!!!) showed me around paris and his home town and met his friends, the whole thing was so great!

Matthew Meyer
From Matthew Meyer
 Denver, United States
 Aug 24, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 2 days  
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.

Hannu Berghall 
From Hannu Berghall
 Stockholm, Sweden
 Aug 24, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 7 days  
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!

Claire Van Beek
From Claire Van Beek
 Auckland, New Zealand
 Jul 19, 2006
Met in person  

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

Angel Chen
From Angel Chen
 New York, United States
 Jul 19, 2006
Met in person  

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!

Terry Lewis
From Terry Lewis
 Perth, Australia
 Jul 19, 2006
Met in person  

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!

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