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  • 18 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning German, Spanish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Social work
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  • From Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Be on the road again.

Find a way to go live in the Shetland Islands for a whole year.

ABOUT ME

Vaccinated for covid 19

Braun hair and eyes, 1m 95. I come from a small town near Lausanne in Switzerland.
My mother gave me the virus of traveling when she took me in a four weeks travel in guatemala. I was 10 years old. We were hosted by some of her friends (she spent a year in south America when she was young). I saw poverty and racism for the first time of my life and truly understood what it meant, (eat only tortillas for three weeks when you are 10 y. o. with unique game a ball made with corns and wool; see your friends being whistle at by white because they are mixed-race or amerindians). You understand pretty fast some values and that there is a problem in this world. I met different culture and people and I learnt spanish,(I almost totally forgot it).
I think this trip conditioned me for my entire life. I understood that a trip means (for me) meeting different culture and people in order to improve myself.
It also is certainly one cause of my need to be on the roads. I travel a lot by cheap ways (hitchhiking and walking) because it's the best way to keep in touch with its true heart, the locals.

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy the present moment. Give as much as you would like to receive. But never ask back because what you give is free.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can host people or meet for a coffee or a drink.
Thanks to family generosity, I also can host you, sometimes, in a house in swiss mountains.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Surfing:
2 nights in Belfast and 2 nights in Dublin at the end of january 2009.
Ravenne in summer 2010
Istambul in summer 2011
Oslo in summer 2012
Montréal in January 2014
Edinburgh in winter 2016
Kiev in January 2020
Definitely best easy going way to travel.

Hosting:
Hosted some people in Morges, many more in Renens csers and others then in Vevey. Im now in Lausanne.

Couldn't use CS for the last couple of years, can't wait to use it again

Interests

Outdoors: hiking, hitchhiking, camping, bycicling, photography, go out with friends
Indoors: movies, tv shows, boardgames, seeing friends

  • culture
  • photography
  • coffee
  • walking
  • drinking
  • pub crawls
  • movies
  • tv
  • traveling
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • camping
  • swimming
  • hitchhiking
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Wild, The big Lebowsky, Into the wild, Rivers on tides, A Passage to India,Hot Fuzz

Music: some bands in every style. Well talk about it eventually.

Books: I read mostly everything, some travel diaries too.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Live in a poor family in Guatemala and only eat tortillas for four weeks at 10 years old.
Trekking in Iceland in the laugavegur trek and hitchhiking all around Iceland.
Contemplating a winter sunrise in the Alps.
Living barefoot for a month in Thailand.
Couchsurfing in Turkey with my 80 y. o. grandmother

Teach, Learn, Share

Pubs are the true heart of Eire
Icelandic swimming pools are the heart of towns as pubs in Ireland. Icelandic locals go there early in the morning to read newspapers and gossip.

I can teach french

What I Can Share with Hosts

A nice and cosy place to surf and hosts desired to meet new people.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Switzerland

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