CURRENT MISSION

to conquer the 7 seas of the world...!

ABOUT ME

My name is Gregory and I was born on April 8, 1981 in Athens.I have always liked travelling, nature, good food and quality wine. I also love music, collecting LP records and playing the drums. I am also in a band doing gigs and stuff... In a nutshell, I love doing interesting stuff...!

This is my wine website: http://www.gregoryswinejournal.com
And this is my Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/gregory.kontos

PHILOSOPHY

Life is too precious to worry about stupid things. So have fun, go party and fall in love. Say what you want to say. Do what you want to do. Regret nothing. Don't let people who don't matter, bring you down.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

visited 22 states (9.77%)Create your own visited map of The World or Like this? try: Triposo Travelhacks

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted

Tony from Santa Rosa, CA (USA)
Bex, Brad and Kaiya from Sydney (Australia)
Cat and Kat from Niagara and Pennsylvania (Canada & USA)
David and Jagoda from Berlin (Germany)
Emma and Paul from Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Adam from Seattle (USA)
Kip from London (UK)
Abdulla from Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Kevin and Robin from Seattle (USA)
Erik from Seattle (USA)
Georg and Florina from Vienna (Austria)
Kostis and Maria from Naoussa (Greece)
Anthony from Vannes (France)
Nastya from Novosibirsk (Russia)
Josh / Tiffney / Nate from Colorado (USA)
Courtney / Meredith / Katelan / Laura from Texas (USA)
Matt / Buddy from Texas and Oklahoma (USA)
Charlie / Sarah / Matt from Oklahoma, Pensylvania and New York (USA)

Surfed

Georg and Florina at Vienna (Austria)
Nicholas at Paso Robles, CA (USA)
Jeremy at Williams, AZ (USA)
Blair and Victoria, West Hollywood LA, CA (USA)
Sky at Santa Barbara, CA (USA)
Aaron and Emily (with Josh and Luke) at Santa Cruz, CA (USA)
Anestie at San Francisco, CA (USA)
Tony at Santa Rosa, CA (USA)
A Japanese family in Tochigi (Japan)
Christiano at Rome (Italy)

Interests

Playing Drums | Wine Tasting | Collecting LP Vinyls | Cycling | Traveling | Reading History Books | Studying Maps | Blogging | Woodworking | Bar Crawling | Traveling | Watching movies | Interior Design | Working out

• cats
• books
• design
• interior design
• oktoberfest
• dining
• wine
• wine tasting
• working out
• partying
• drinking
• drinking games
• movies
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• woodworking
• music
• drums
• cycling
• cartography
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music / Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Guns 'N' Roses, Aerosmith, The Beatles, W.A.S.P., Ozzy, Dio plus more heavy stuff. I also love JAZZ and swingers like Count Basie, Duke Ellington, C.Parker, Miles Davis etc.

Movies / stuff like The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense, Requiem for a Dream, The Butterfly Effect, Valkyrie, The Aviator, American History X, Pulp Fiction, Sideways

Writers / Irvin Yalom, Milan Kountera, Victor Hugo, Philip Roth, Nickos Kazantzakis etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

• Been chased by cops
• Played in a short film
• Been a Cub Scout leader
• Hiked in the Grand Canyon, AZ
• Played chess with a homeless guy at Harlem, New York
• Participated in the ‘Ship for the World Youth 2010’ program in Japan
• Greek Island hopping
• Met great musicians in person: Giannis Markopoulos, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Stavros Xarhakos, Dionysis Savopoulos, Giannis Koutras, Giannis Spanos, Vassilis Papakonstantinou, Hristos Thivaios, Sakis Boulas, Alkistis Protopsalti, Lina Nikolokopoulou and got their LPs signed!!!
• Visited the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley
• Played drinking games in Las Vegas
• Meeting strangers at Madras, India
• 4 times in the Oktoberfest, Munich
• Met great wine makers in person: Freddy Grez, Randall Grahm, Paris Sigalas, Johannes Hirsch etc.
• Sailed in the San Francisco bay
• Bar crawling at Sunset Strip, West Hollywood
• Exploring the canals of Venice
• Participating the Scout Jamboree in Holland, 1994
• Building an igloo and staying there overnight
• Building a hut and (again) staying overnight
• Visited the Great pyramids of Giza, Luxor, Aswan
• Played music with other fellow CSers at Santa Cruz, CA
• Desert Safari in U.A.E.
• Visited SONY Headquarters in Tokyo

Teach, Learn, Share

I can introduce you to the amazing world of fine wine!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Netherlands, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece

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