Hello fellow-travelers, wherever you come from, wherever you are, I am looking forward to meeting you, either in my home or in yours! "There are no strangers, only friends we have not met yet."

I'm a cosmopolitan traveller: A German of British origin, living in France and having travelled in many countries.
My philosophie: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness[...].” (Mark Twain)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting people people in/from other regions and cultures of our small planet is my main motivation for being a traveler. So living the spirit of couchsurfing is a logical choice.

Interests

Traveling and meeting people!
Apart from that: after many years of enjoying and teaching Skiing and Skydiving, followed by Hot Air Ballooning, I recently became a scuba dive instructor.

• books
• board games
• traveling
• socializing
• backpacking
• scuba diving
• geography
• geopolitics
• local history
• local culture

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There are so many things, but the highlights were always to meet wonderful people of all different kind, all over the world. Anyway, the most amazing thing is being a father!

Otherwise I was very lucky to have lived quite a few amazing moments, so that I cannot really point out just the one single thing.
As they were at the same time impressive and often making me feel less important, the ones that influenced me most were probably:
// staying with aboriginal families in Inner Borneo, Africa, northern Alaska...
// piloting hot air balloons at low altitude over India, discovering the country in a very special way
// climbing inside the ice-blue serac of a Norwegian glacier
// diving inside a sunken warship
// learning how to ride an elephant myself in the jungle of northern Laos
// discovering wildlife in various parts of our stunning world, like swimming with dolphins in the open ocean
// built a wooden raft and for a few days slowly descended the river, in complete harmony with nature.
// for hours and hours admiring the stars above the Saharian desert

Teach, Learn, Share

Supporting you or your family/friends with learning languages would be a pleasure to me!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Sharing travel memories, passing on information about destinations!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Guernsey, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Kenya, Kosovo, Laos, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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