We are couple, who love travelling and getting new experiences, impressions, visiting countries not as package tourists, because each trip in your life is a special world, where you can feel yourself as a real traveler.
Right now we are living in Salzgitter (Lower Saxony, Germany). Artem is an engineer and Valentina is a customs forwarder.
Artem's hobbies are hiking, climbing, mountaineering and music. Valentina's hobbies are crossfit, psychology, mountain, tourism, nutrition science.

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We are in love with travelling and getting knowledge about other countries, people and cultures.
We are sure, that only in communication with local people you can get vision of the visiting country. We believe that in the world a lot of open, friendly and interesting people, who can help you in your trips and can give you a chance to get acknowledgement of the country and culture.
We also want to help travelers from different countries to get the best in their visiting of our country, our city and region, to get the best experiences from meeting with our culture and people.

Interests

• crossfit
• traveling
• music
• sports
• food
• astrology
• mountain climbing
• nutrition
• foreign cultures
• audio
• psycology
• mountain hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Artem is a real melomane, that is why he loves a lot of kind of music and can recommend a huge pool of musicians. We love rock music, classic music, ethnic music, metal.
Most impactful films for us are "Inception", "Mister Nobody", "Wasabi", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Renn, Lola, renn", "Fight club", russian comedies "Peculiarities of the National Hunting" and etc.
Our favorite writers: Ernest Hemingway, Frédéric Beigbeder, Boris Akunin, Fedor Dostoevsky, books of Osho's lectures, Clarissa Pinkola Estés "Women Who Run With the Wolves" and etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Get the feel of enjoying this life, discovering new places in my country (especially mountains).

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach you some kind of meals that we cook in Russia. We can share with you ours travelling experience and tips. Small Russian language courses are possible, of course!;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Go out and get some drinks, do sports, share my knowledge about travelling, culture and happiness.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Germany, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Russian Federation