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Overview

  • 54 references 33 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian; learning Russian
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • A little bit of this, a little bit of that at the moment
  • Environmental Engineer
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About Me

Absolutely friendly, don't bark, don't bite, a bit crazy, but you will like it. It serves the purpose ;) I am interested in music very much, collecting, exchanging, watching, listening to. Love going to concerts and discover new bands and genres. Also love football, especially British footy! There are much more topics to talk about with me anytime. I am an environmentalist, passionate and devoted to certain topics. I work in waste management. I also worked/volunteered for Service Civil International (the Serbian branch, Volunteers' Centre of Vojvodina) as a volunteer exchange coordinator, office manager, cleaning lady, you name it, for 11 years now. Currently serving as an the SCI International Executive Committee member. Best thing ever. After all, I liked everything I did so far ... otherwise I wouldn't be doing them :P

I try to listen, process things and make my own conclusions. I believe we are all here for one ultimate goal and it is to explain that living together is possible and that our diversity can only be an advance.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Counting years on CouchSurfing and all the adventures and friends at the same time makes me really happy I am a member of this network

Interests

Love collecting, listening and seeing music live, more or less as much as football games (teams I support); I have been involved in volunteering for most of my life, mainly on peace education; passionate about environment hence having a career in waste management; love pub quizzes and board games and anything similar challeging what I know :P

  • concerts
  • festivals
  • environment
  • beer
  • pub crawls
  • gardening
  • board games
  • music
  • punk music
  • cycling
  • volunteering
  • football
  • trekking
  • activism
  • punk
  • brussels
  • zero waste
  • pub quiz

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: British Punk Rock (the genuine one) from the '70s (The Clash, The Damned, The Jam, The Undertones, Chelsea, The Adicts ...) and then the Pop Punk, especially the one from the San Francisco Bay Area which emerged around Gilman 924 venue and Lookout! Records (Operation Ivy, Green Day, Rancid, Screeching Weasel, The Queers ...). At one point I started exploring Gypsy Punk and Ethno Punk and bumping into bands like Gogol Bordello, Zdob si Zdub, The Pogues. It's mainly because I love Gipsy music, too, including Kal, Parno Graszt, Karavan Familia etc. I love live shows and festivals.

Movies & TV: Comedies and history based movies (Everything is Illuminated); British comedy (Only Fools and Horses, Gavin and Stacey, The Green Green Grass, Rock and Chips, The Inbetweeners, Skins ...); when it comes to new stuff it would be Peaky Blinders, taboo, The OA etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Met the prince of Luxembourg
Saw Manchester United at Old Trafford
Biked in the Arctic Circle
Climbed to Tsminda Sameba church on Mt Kazbeg in Gerogia
Saw sea turtles during nesting season in Montserrat
Watching landing and taking off of jet planes at Princess Juliana airport in Sint Maarten
Met regularly and had coffee with Prince Laurent of Belgium
Did the carnival in Dunkerque (caught 2 fish)
Highest point climbed to 3560 m, in Kyrgyzstan to see the Ala Kul lake. Magnificient feeling.

Teach, Learn, Share

I discovered "light graffiti" and now I am practicing it. Great thing to do in the city in the evening after several beers :) Apart from that, Brussels is cool, I like to show around.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Show around, good stories, good food. I like to spend time, food and space with others.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Martin (French part), San Marino, Senegal, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Belgium, Montserrat, Serbia

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