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Overview

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  • Fluent in Dutch; learning English, French, Norwegian Bokmål, Spanish
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • I have just finished working on a marketing & innovat...
  • Marketing Management + Leisure & Event Management
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Inspire and be inspired about leisure & tourism in Central & Northern Europe

ABOUT ME

I grew up in Belgium, among my best friends and family. Finding out my real passions, ambitions and strengths, happened in the second part of my life. While I was living in Brussels, Antwerp and the Netherlands, while traveling through Canada, Iceland and Scandinavia. Now I’m eager to start My Life III. Moving to another country, growing as a marketeer, getting inspired by new friends and keeping in touch with everything precious to me from My Life I & II. That’s my life. What was, is and will be!

PHILOSOPHY

Live with passion & reach for the stars!
& ... this one is from Walt Disney, but is just a perfect way to live by: dream, dare, do. I even created a personal tattoo on my foot & wrist all around that phrase!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I will look for inspiring places and tourism/leisure concepts. And share them on my website and other interesting & related websites. With this I hope to inspire others, as much as being inspired by people I meet during my travels. Just as to inspire or be inspired by people I meet through the CS project.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

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Interests

I like:
- dancing and teaching dance: to be creative at it, to enjoy the fun of it & to have a good sweat!
- being creative & busy as a marketer, by preference in the leisure & tourism industry.
- traveling: because I like to get to know new places, find out the stories behind them and enjoy intensive hikes in the mountains & other wild nature.
- history, philosophy, anthropology; I am interested in getting to know, understanding & redefining so much more!!

  • dancing
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • anthropology
  • history
  • tourism
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Flashdance, Pipi Longstocking, Inside Steves Brain, Fawlty Towers, 'Emotionele Innovatie' from Kralingen, an Inconvenient Truth, The age of Stupid, Enya...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have enjoyed all of what I've done. And I hope to keep on working & living while loving my work & life. Some highlights:
- traveling on my own for the first time, all across Canada
- backpacking across Iceland & haven't felt alone one single day
- creating an innovation & marketing project in Holland that seemed to inspire a lot of people
- moving to the Netherlands and building a whole new life & friends

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a bit of dance & aerobics. And I read as much as I can to get to know more of marketing, trends, the leisure & tourism industry, the creative industry & sustainable management. I like to learn more about that all, but I also like to share the bit I know about it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Netherlands

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