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  • 44 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Slovene; learning English, German, Italian
  • 52, Male
  • Member since 2008
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Save some energy, make someone lough, give peace a chance...

ABOUT ME

I'm 38, but I look 30. I feel 26 but I behave like 19 :-) I work in IT and I live with my girlfriend. We are one but not the same, so she has her own profile (http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/zzzmaja/). There is also a Tana the dog with us. I used to travel but now I'm tired of going around and only sightseeing so I joined CS and look forward to meet all of you CouchSurfers. I'm kind of shy and usually find it difficult to address people but when I get to know someone I'm pretty talkative. I love to laugh and make others laugh. I like nature and all kind of outdoors activities, especially mountains where I become antoher person - a better one...

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Well the above was written 2 years ago. Now I'm forty but I still feel a bit younger. Beside this I got a beautifull baby (which makes me more mature ??), so probably it is time to chage my profile to several people - Melita + Maja + Me, who will be happy to host again shortly, but now the baby is a bit too baby...

PHILOSOPHY

It's better to have a bottle in front of me, than to have a frontal lobotomy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, meetings

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

2008
Surfed with Joe in Dublin and Tim in London
Hosted Inga and Phil from Cologne
crostola meeting (obala)
2nd Before Christmas Meeting in Maribor
2009
Surfed with Dora and Miguel in Barcelona
Typical Homemade Calçotada Meeting in L'Espluga de Francoli + Surfed with Adrià
hosted Haeryong and Youngae
Walking around Pazin meeting
organized Typical Špargljada meeting + Hosted Nikola and Diana
Hosted Ramona
Hosted Marcella e Fla
Hosted Su
Hosted Billy
Surfed with Laura in Sardinia
Surfed with Nikola in Zagreb
Hosted Adam
Hosted Lorne and Hana
Hosted Marta
Hosted Matei
3rd Before Christmass meeting
2010
Waited in vain for Zarko
Hosted Vero
2nd Šparuge meet again
Surfed with Nagy in Sarajevo
Tara rafting meeting
Surfed with Nikola in ZG again
Hosted Nikola and Vladimir
Hosted Betty Trany
Surfed with SOL and TSETSEGE in Ulaan Bataar
Surfed with DODIFOG in Beijing
Hiking in Istria 5 meeting
Hosted Adam
Meeting in Valcellina Valley, Italy
2011
Surfed with Flavia in Bologna
Surfed with Ivana in Avellino
Surfed with Paolo in Aquila
Organized Soča rafting meeting
Surfed with Nikola in ZG again
Surfed with Louise and Adrian in Joburg
Hosted Flavia and her friends
2012
Got a baby :) - no hosting/surfing for the moment

Interests

I grow olive trees and occasionally produce olive oil - when there are enough olives - but most of all I love burbequeing under olive trees.
I like running, mountainbiking, swiming, freeclimbing, mountainiring, sailing...any kind of outside activity I guess
I've just finished a freedive course and I intend to practice spearfishing some day.
I want to do cross country skiing, kite surfing, walking on my hands, ride a monobycikle and so on...

  • dogs
  • perfumes
  • marathon
  • running
  • walking
  • partying
  • traveling
  • juggling
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • kite surfing
  • surfing
  • snorkeling
  • sailing
  • skiing
  • rock climbing
  • sightseeing
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

directors: Tarantino and Almodovar definitelly, Wim Wenders, Lars Von Trier, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Kubrick
movies: Mediterraneo, Crash, Pretty Villages Pretty Flames, Kod Amidze Idriza, Lezzioni d'Italiano, The Art of Negative Thinking (just saw it), Farrenheit 451 (I liked it when I was 10, and still do), Deer Hunter... Before the Sunrise, Gattaca (There's no gene for fate) I wish I remembered all the good ones :)

music: Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, ManuChao, Jovanotti, Fabrizio De Andre, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Gotan Project, Lounge Lizzards (John Lourie), Talking Heads then something from my country: Ana Pupedan, Olivija, Terrafolk; and so on and so on. I like listening to Mozart and I used to like to play Bethowen.

books: John Irwing makes me cry - I can't help it, but I read also fun stuff, actually I read every kind of stuff and a lot - just a few of them: Murakami, Schlink, Marias, Atxaga, Marquez, Vonnegut, Paasilinna, Hureishi, Rushdie and so on and so on

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Reflection of sun in the fog on Gross Wenediger, snorkeling in Sinaj,
Hen parties in Tempel Bar in Dublin,
a badger in a local climbing area
I run a marathon

Teach, Learn, Share

In spring I can show you how to find and prepare wild asparagus.
I can teach you how to juggle :)
I'd like to learn yodling - please help me!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nepal, Peru, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Slovenia

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