Remco Matthias Kwint

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Dordrecht 128:421	WindMills & CheapThrills organisation 9:33
Netherlands 52157:11826 Why: I'm a dutchie!	Netherlands CS Organisation 99:2023
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There are seperate beds available. We have a special room for couchsurfers, it is a nice room with a view on the town canal and the old buildings that are next to it.

In the main street of Dordrecht there is a house, that is next to the main square. The nearest bar is 7 steps away, the nearest terrace just 17 steps away. The central station is a mere 5 minutes walk while the busses stop just behind our house. We are next to the street where famous Dutch Painter Vincent van Gogh used to live. From our balcony that is adjacent to the town canal you can see the "grote kerk" (big church) that played a huge role in dutch (church)history, so you are in the middle of the historical centre and also on the longest shopping street of the Netherlands.

It get's better, 3 friends are living here and happen to be all couchsurfers as well. So if you decide to surf our couch you'll have 3 times as much fun as on a normal couch. Since we are all busy students it can happen that we don't have time to hang out with you for entire time, but most of the times there's at least 1 person at home.

These 3 persons are:

Remco Kwint
http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/remus86/
Arnoud den Besten
http://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=3U3PWBP
Jaap-Willem Mol
http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/jwm/

What we offer:

-Your own room with beds and with all privacy that you want
-We have a spare key that you can use if you want to go somewhere
-All the liberty in the world that you can expect from a couch
-A spare bike
-You can join us for breakfast/lunch/dinner etc
-Loads of humour and great times
-We run a small tourist office in our house. We have dozens of maps, brochures and visited basically all the tourist highlights in the region so we can tell you where to go and what to see if you want to get to know the local highlights, don't always believe what your lonely planet has to say..


What we expect:

-When you come over you are sociable with the 3 of us, not just the one that you sent the request to
-You must be able to entertain yourself too when we are busy. In exchange you'll get all the liberty that you need to go to places
-We are 3 students, so we don't have loads of money. You can stay here for free, but cooking for us or taking some groceries with you is highly appreciated. We don't want to gain money from it, but also can not really afford to lose too much on it
-You have information on your profile and preferrable some references. If you want to stay at our place we would like to know who you are and what to expect in advance.

Remember, couchsurfing is not so nice because you can stay somewhere for free, couchsurfing is so great because it gives you the chance to see and experience how the locals live their lives and what their culture is like. Finally, if you send me a request, please read my profile and show that you have done that by referring to certain things on my profile, the copy/paste messages will not get you any further ;)

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Jaap Mol 25, Male Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since September 2004 "Highschool and traveling together!" Friendship Type: Best Friend I vouched for Remco Matthias Kwint    3   3   10	Pieter Mol 24, Male Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since August 2001 "We attended highschool together and did great things!" Friendship Type: Best Friend    30+
Emmely Van Strien 26, Female The Hague, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since August 2008 "in the pub" Friendship Type: Best Friend I vouched for Remco Matthias Kwint    30+   15   20	Arnoud den Besten 26, Male Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since August 2007 "I met threw a close friend" Friendship Type: Best Friend I vouched for Remco Matthias Kwint    5   5   26
Maus Favier 25, Male Amsterdam, Noord-Holland Netherlands Friends since November 2006 "Asia" Friendship Type: Good Friend	Rachella Dubbeldam 23, Female Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands Friends since March 2004 "Ex-boyfriend and he's still a very important friend to me" Friendship Type: Close Friend
Tobias Schwaibold 33, Male Darmstadt, Hessen Germany Friends since December 2009 "Shared flats with him" Friendship Type: Good Friend    30+	Esther Stehouwer 23, Female Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since February 2009 "housemate of my boyfriend" Friendship Type: Close Friend I vouched for Remco Matthias Kwint    30+
Laura Kolijn 23, Female Leiden, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since August 2010 "By mutual friends" Friendship Type: Good Friend	Michael RUSSO 35, Several people Clamart, Ile-de-France France Friends since February 2009 "I hosted him during his paris trip on february 2009 - he hosted me during my holland trip on may 2009" Friendship Type: Close Friend I vouched for Remco Matthias Kwint    5   2   6
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From Ernani Schnorenberger
 Marseille, France
 ^{Nov 16, 2011}     

Positive

Remco hosted me and FIVE friends when we are crossing Netherlands by bike.
Great hoster, nice guy, easygoing person.
Thanks for the hospitality.

From Isabel Leddihn
 Saint-Etienne, France
 ^{Nov 11, 2011}    

Positive

Remco received me and my other 5 friends. We didn't share much, but the little hours at he's house and the hospitality of he and he's roommates, made our night/day at Dordrecht a nice time.
:)
Thanks for everything, you're welcome to France, Chile, Brazil, Germany, Spain!
Bonne chance

 

From Rodolfo Núñez
 Marseille, France
 ^{Nov 3, 2011}     

Positive

Remco hosted me and 5 friends during our bicycle trip around Netherlands. I would love to know more about him and his friends, but I’ve arrive very late and we have started our trip very early. As far as I could feel, he’s very kind, he likes to know every culture in the world. They have a very cool CS map in his living, they have travelled a lot and they are very open minded.
I would love to know them more, maybe another time =)

 

From Klid Saraci
 San Salvador, El Salvador
 ^{Aug 7, 2011}     

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Yo mate. It was seriously a great pleasure to have you and Arnoud staying here. And I can't wait to come visit you in Dordrecht. it's a bummer i could not make it to come along to south albania, but i'm hoping you be back, really!
These people are some of the best guests one can hope to host. good company, fun, and willing to learn and curious to learn new things.
good luck and see you in holland.

From Laura Kolijn
 Leiden, Netherlands
 ^{Jul 5, 2011}    

Positive

Remco is a very nice and generous guy.
Since I've known him, he's always kind, interested, full of humour and in for a good talk/conversation.
He once cooked for me and a friend when I visited him. He never hosted me for CS but based on my friendship with him, I would say that he is a very trustworthy person and a friendly host.
It's absolutely worth it to meet him, and grab a drink in Dordrecht with him and his friends!

 

From Julien Gobbi
 Metz, France
 ^{Feb 24, 2011}    

Positive

He his a really cool guy and a good poker player (ahaha). we spent a good time in Paris ! Thanks again :)

From Ismael BenTouq
 Isa Town, Bahrain
 ^{Jan 22, 2011}     

Positive

I met Remco during my trip around Europe through our mutual CS friend Michaela. He invited me to stay at his where I had possibly the best CS experience and made me love CS even more..I also met his other CS housemates Arnoud and Jaab who were extremely friendly and welcoming.. The guys made me leave with an impression that I was lucky to be hosted by the people who deserve to represent the true Dutch CS community.. big time!!
I will deafinately visit again as I promised!!
P.S. Sorry for the LATE reference!!

 

From Marco Cuevas-Hewitt
 Perth, Australia
 ^{Nov 25, 2010}     

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This reference is going to be easy, because it's people like Remco that make Couchsurfing such an awesome thing to be involved in! Remco, his girlfriend, and all of his housemates were really warm and welcoming :-).. It's such a great little sharehouse that they've set up in Dordrecht. They've even got one room set aside especially for couchsurfers and a world map with stickers on it marking all the places that their former couchsurfers have come from. When I get back to Australia, I want a sharehouse as cool as theirs with lots of couchsurfers passing through too! Good times! Thanks Remco for your exceptional hospitality! :-)

From Wijnand Boon
 The Hague, Netherlands
 ^{Sep 20, 2010}    

Positive

I wish I had had more time to exchange thoughts! I met Remco through a mutual friend with whom I had stayed one night and who introduced me to Remco to be able to stay another night in Dordrecht. Although it was really short notice he immediately accepted me as a guest in his house. Warm welcome, great time. Nice housemates also.
Will definitely send postcards to the queen! ;)

From Marta Coppolino
 Milano, Italy
 ^{Aug 25, 2010}     

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I met Remco in my house because he's my brother's friend. He's so friendly and easy-going that after just few minutes we were talking as good old friends. He's really into social activities and cares a lot about other people. He's a critical thinker and generally I agree with his point of view. He stayed for one week with us (usually we don't do with any CS because it's quite a long time!), but with him was really different because it was like hosting a good friend. Finally he's really interesting and fun as well and i'm glad to met him!

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