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Overview

  • 18 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Italian
  • 50, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • traveling and organizing dolphin and whale watching trips...
  • photography & film
  • From Goslar, Germany
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So through off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain)

ABOUT ME

I love the sea. One day I want to live by the sea, since then I travel there as often as possible. That is why I started my own business in 2006 - I am a tour operator for maritime trips. With me you can watch dolphins and whales in the Mediterranean, experience a Jazz Festival on an Island in Southern France or enjoy the Italian food & wine.
... April 2009: I did it! Moved to Salina, a tiny little island close to Sicily - and I love it!

PHILOSOPHY

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am a gipsy right now, moving between Sicily, La Gomera and Berlin - if you want to meet for a glass of wine or a beer just check where I am :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Iceland 2008, Berlin 2009, Palermo 2010, Catania 2012, Verona 2012 ...

Interests

movies, photography, music, going out, dancing, nature, boats, languages, cooking, just started playing the accordion

  • photography
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • dining
  • italian food
  • cooking
  • wine
  • beer
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • jazz
  • sailing
  • swimming
  • business
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: art house like Wong Kar-Wai (his old films), Jim Jarmusch, Italian and French films
I would like to open a cinema at Salina - one of the few things I am missing on the island!

Music: Jazz (classics and Norwegian jazz like Nils Petter Molvaer), guitar rock like Muse, special music like Sigur Ros, Russian and Balkan music

Books: Alessandro Baricco and others that manage to write sentences that you read 10 times as they are so beautiful or so special...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swimming with dolphins was one of the most amazing things I have ever done and which I will never forget in my life! Only whales could top that.

Teach, Learn, Share

Italian, German, playing the accordion, I can show you the dolphins of the Mediterranean

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