CURRENT MISSION

Trust my heart.

ABOUT ME

Introspective, contradictory, passionate, rational, perseverant, idealistic, disinterested, sensual, possessive, incoherent, inconstant, sensitive, hedonistic, responsable, conscious...

PHILOSOPHY

I'm not sure I have a philosophy, or even want one, but, as Leonard Cohen said, "there is a crack in everything, and that's how the light gets in."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been hosted while travelling. I host people at home when I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very positive.

Interests

Literature, music, travelling, cinema, history, archaeology, journalism, nature, cycling, comics, the Middle East, photography, coffee...

• literature
• photography
• coffee
• comics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• history
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

The 4 B masters —Bach, Beatles, Bob and Bowie— and another thousand, from medieval music to Radiohead, in the whole planet.

Literature (authors):

A. de Saint-Exupery, Alan Moore, Albert Camus, Alejo Carpentier, Alessandro Baricco, Alexander Pushkin, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Amos Oz, Anais Nin, Anne Michaels, Antón Chejov, Antonio Machado, Arthur Conan Doyle, Poe, Blas de Otero, Bruce Chatwin, C. W. Ceram, Carmen Laforet, Carmen Martín Gaite, Charles Bukowski, Charlotte Bronte, Colin Thubron, David Grossman, Don Delillo, E. Annie Proulx, E. L. Doctorow, Ernest Hemingway, Ernesto Sábato, Ethan Canin, Federico García Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Fiodor Dostoievski, Flannery O'Connor, Francisco Quevedo, Franz Kafka, G. K. Chesterton, Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel Celaya, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Halldór Laxness, Harper Lee, Haruki Murakami (some times), Henry D. Thoreau, Henry Miller, Herge, Hermann Hesse, Hermann Melville, Hugo Pratt, Ian McEwan, Ignacio Aldecoa, Iris Murdock, Italo Calvino, J. D. Salinger, J. M. Barrie, J. M. Coetzee, J. W. Goethe, Jack London, James Joyce, John Berger, John Cheever, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Franzen, Jorge Luis Borges, Josep Pla, Joseph Roth, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortázar, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kingsley Amis, León Tolstoi, Leonardo Sciascia, Lobo Antunes, Luis Rosales, Margaret Laurece, Marguerite Duras, Mario Benedetti, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mark Twain, Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel Delibes, Miguel Hernández, Mihail Bulgakov, Milan Kundera, Naguib Mahfouz, Neil Gaiman, Niccolo Ammaniti, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Neruda, Paul Bowles, Philip Roth, Primo Levi, R. L. Stevenson, R. Tagore, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Roald Dahl, Roberto Bolaño, Robertson Davies, Rohinton Mistry, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Saul Below, Scott Fitzgerald, Stefan Zweig, Susan Sontag, Tahar Ben Jelloum, Thomas Mann, Tom Sharpe, Vladimir Nabokov, Voltaire, William Shakespeare, W. Sommerset-Maughan, Walt Whitman, William Golding, William Maxwell, Yann Martel, etc, etc.

Movies (an impossible top 5):

Manhattan (Woody Allen), Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), To Be Or Not To Be (Ernest Lubitsch), Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean), The Front Page (Billy Wilder).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Driving in the Almeria desert, in Spain, in the middle of the night, on a solitary rural road, surrounded by absolute darkness and the dreamy visions of phantasmagorical agaves, cactuses and palms.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Spanish, among other things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Jordan, Spain, United Kingdom

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