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Overview

  • 71 references 36 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Nursing, volunteering, photographing, translating and int...
  • Very well educated, thank you.
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About Me

LATEST UPDATE
No space to host at the moment, just arrived in London and moving between flats.

CURRENT MISSION
Exploring London!

ABOUT ME
Nurse with a knack for spirituality, now managing a health clinic whilst looking for the perfect balance between modern science and traditional practices. Feeling a call towards Healing in general, so trying to find out what is there to learn... Also gripped by the elemental world, so seeing where it takes me. Plus I was quite a computer geek, am an adventurer, photographer among other things that catch my fancy ;)

PHILOSOPHY
If I had to choose one phrase, it would be the old "An ye harm none, do as thou whilst."

Love has become the single most important word/feeling/essence nowadays, and all my actions whirl around it. It is, after all, the answer to every question I might ask. Which doesn't prevent me from looking for other, funnier answers =P

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Surfing, hosting, meeting, guiding, advising...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Hosting was my first experience and it was awesome, I had lots of fun with a group of Belgium folks.

Surfing came up eventually, and it was also a marvelous time that I spent with a group of people in Strasbourg - thanks for everything! Had some very interesting conversations with Hannah in Basel as well. After that, it became natural and nowadays I don't even consider renting a room at a hostel... CS is the way to go!

I've surfed plenty of couches, hosted over 100 guests and each and every experience was positive one. Please don't ruin my track record :D

*******IMPORTANT NOTE*******
CouchSurfing calls me old school. I guess I've been around for a while. I still remember the time when connections were made on a personal level, when surfer and host would be picky when choosing each other and through a couch-request you would woo the host into accepting you. Tell me why I should accept to host you and what fun things we can do or learn together. If you don't bother, I won't bother. Oh and we won't get to know each other in less than two nights... I'd prefer longer periods :)

Interests

Nursing, health, reading, computers, computer-games, board games, photography, spirituality, complementary medicine, Celtic culture, elementals, Reiki, Art of Living...

  • arts
  • culture
  • books
  • photography
  • perfumes
  • cooking
  • board games
  • reading
  • traveling
  • adventure races
  • surfing
  • fencing
  • track and field
  • medicine
  • nursing
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien, Dean Koontz, M. Z. Bradley, Paulo Coelho, Juliet Marillier, Anne Bishop, lots from Dragonlance...

Particular books: Summer with the Leprechauns, Dragon Tears, Black Jewels trilogy, The Mists of Avalon, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Sevenwaters trilogy

Movie director: Quentin Tarantino, Hayao Miyazaki

Particular movies: Braveheart, Matrix, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Fight Club, Revolver, and everything by Miyazaki...

Teach, Learn, Share

Computer stuff, books, spirituality, esoterism, photography, games, traveling experiences, massages, Reiki, Love, random acts of kindness, cooking, fencing, stargazing...

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Portugal

Old School Badges

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