David Linares

Current Mission: "Trying to find a way to be proud every morning at wake-up"

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United Kingdom
England
London
Lat: 51.51008, Lon: -0.13398
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David Linares has been vouched for
Couch available	Coffee or a drink
CouchSurf requests replied to	100%
member since	October 26th, 2008
profile views	716
age	27
birthday	November 11th Everyone can see this.
gender	Male
membername	DALUIS
occupation	Learning
education	Engineering
grew up in	Dax, in the south of France, very close to Spain
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Languages

French^Expert
English^Intermediate
Spanish^Expert
Japanese^Beginner
Basque^Beginner

Groups I Belong To

Translation - Language Team Leaders^42:647 Why: French Leader	London^15522:45712 Why: To be informed of all CS events, and m
French^37:1251 Why: French Team Leader	Translation - Tool Users ^77:0 Why: French Team Leader
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Couch Information

Couch Available: Coffee or a drink
Preferred Gender: Any

I have no couch where you can crash at the moment. I feel definitely sorry about that. As soon as I find a place with a proper couch, I will let you know ;p

See you, maybe for a coffee or a "tea",

David
^_^

Friends (10)

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Nicolas Alcaydé 26, Male Paris, Ile-de-France France Friends since March 2007 "Flatmates we are !" Friendship Type: 6 - Close Friend	Simon Pasquet 26, Male Paris, Ile-de-France France Friends since September 2008 "David is a friend of my flatmate" Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
Fabio in London 25, Male London, England United Kingdom Friends since February 2009 "Meeting the newbies..." Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend	ZELMA 23, Female Tonbridge, England United Kingdom Friends since February 2009 "surfed his couch and spent time in London" Friendship Type: 4 - Friend ¹
GARAVG 29, Female London, England United Kingdom Friends since November 2008 "I hosted him." Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend ¹	Tom and Kat Clark 23, Several people Kildonan, Scotland United Kingdom Friends since November 2008 "Surfed with him for three days in Paris." Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend ³
Sandra Mould 25, Female Addlestone, England United Kingdom Friends since February 2009 "We met in CS events in London" Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend	Michelle Wilson 22, Female London, England United Kingdom Friends since February 2009 "CS meetings and bagel mission!" Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
Tom Halfpenny 23, Male London, England United Kingdom Friends since January 2009 "my 1st CS meet - drinks and bagels" Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend	Manmohan Birdi 43, Male London, England United Kingdom Friends since February 2009 "Met at Meet the Newbies and St Patricks night celebration" Friendship Type: 4 - Friend I vouched for David Linares

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Personal Description

I live in Central London, Vauhall, in a quite huge flat. As I have just arrived, I am waiting to know better my flatmates before telling them : "You know what ? We will host somebody we don't know tonight !!"
Let see what happens...

About me, I will keep it short : I am very interested on trying new things, new cultures. In a word, I love learning.

How I Participate in CS

Share what I have is the way I am participating. When you give something, it's done, you did it because you wanted to give. So please don't talk about giving back.

CouchSurfing Experience

I used to be a newbie. I only had a few experience, but these experiences opened my mind as widely as I couldn't have imagined.

Interests

- Languages
- Magic tricks, Juggling
- Guitar
- Sports

Philosophy

I live my life to learn as much as I can.
So that I will be able to be the best grandfather in the World !!! :-)

Music, Movies, Books

Best Movie : "The Usual Suspects" from "Bryan Singer"
Best Music : "Let go" from "Frou Frou"
Best Book : "When I was 5, I killed myself" (also published as Burt) (in French, Quand j'avais 5ans, je m'ai tué) - from Edward Burt

Types of People I enjoy

Very open-minded people, with a good personality.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach:
- languages
- magic tricks
- guitar
- juggling (balls, clubs, monocycle...etc)

Would like to learn:
- Very rare things such like, for example, yoga :-)
- Salsa and other dances

One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done

There is a restaurant in Paris, very rare. It's called "in the dark". You are guided by a blind waiter or waitress. Everything is in the dark. You have to eat in the dark. It was very funny (because after 5 minutes to try finding your fork, you decide to use your fingers ;p ), and very interesting, because, as you don't know what it looks like, you have to experience it differently, with the taste, and smell.

It's also funny because, you will meet a lot of people in the same table, talking and laughing with them. In every other restaurant, you come with some people, and you only speak with them.

Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org Project

CouchSurfing.com is one step to a different society, where people can help other people. I wish the society can be turned into a place where money is an exchange, and where the best people are people sharing the most.

Locations Traveled

LIVED: France
WANTS TO GO: Japan

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From ZELMA
Tonbridge, United Kingdom
^{May 25}

Positive

I've just spent two fantastic days in London and it's thanks to David (he's definitely a good host) and the beautiful weather. We had a delicious barbecue at his place and then went to the world record biggest picnic the next day.
He's a talented juggler and I'm happy he taught me a few tricks.

From Manmohan Birdi
London, United Kingdom
^{Mar 16}

Positive

It was great talking to David, a very nice, chatty, genuine guy. He likes cider too which is a plus. Shame you couldn't make it to my curry event but I am sure there will be further opportunities to share some good French wine and talk about queueing!

From Michelle Wilson
London, United Kingdom
^{Feb 16}

Positive

David is a really friendly guy and he always makes me laugh. I am still sorry about my bad bagel shop recommendations, I will do better next time (if you ever trust me again as an authority on english food!)

From Fabio in London
London, United Kingdom
^{Feb 9}

Positive

David is very friendly, talkative and funny... :)

From GARAVG
London, United Kingdom
^{Nov 12, 2008}

Positive

Don´t believe him- I was probably so lovely because being around someone like David makes the whole hosting experience a real pleasure, so there is no merit in my performance.

David is wonderful: kind, attentive and interesting. Be careful with him: he will insist in taking you out for dinner and there will be no point in attempting to share the bill, he will say he doesn´t need sheets because he can just sleep directly on top of the couch, and he will tiptoe around your place as in eternal debt with his host... But you should give him sheets and much more, because that is what he deserves.

From Simon Pasquet
Paris, France
^{Nov 6, 2008}

Positive

David is a really nice guy, we have a lot of common interests.He is funny, smart, really nice and we can talk about a lot of things with him. I know him only since one month, but I can already say that David is someone you can really trust!

From Tom and Kat Clark
Kildonan, United Kingdom
^{Nov 2, 2008}

Positive

David and Nicolas were fantastic hosts. This was our first time CSing, and we were very pleased with our experience. They went out of their way to make us feel welcome, took us to meet their wonderful friends and made sure our time in Paris was great. Can't wait to have REAL pancakes with you guys in Canada!

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