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  • 70 references 58 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Bulgarian, Spanish; learning Catalan, Valencian, English, French, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Russian
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • full time job
  • university degree: spanish philology and cultural tourism
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to visit all the countries in the world;
part 1: Europe (done);
part 2: North and Central America (done);
part 3: South America (2021)

ABOUT ME

well... I was born in Bulgaria, I've lived in Basque country, Occitània and Mexico. Now I came back to Catalunya but I have no idea where I'll be even for the near future.
I used to go to rock shows (specially American bands) all over Europe but the last few years I have no much time to do it;
from 2007 to 2011 I crossed Europe by land several times, sometimes hitchhiking, sometimes by bus; now I try to travel only outside Europe;
I don't know for how long I will be in Catalunya, maybe next year I will go back to Mexico, who knows.

PHILOSOPHY

We know more about war
than we do about peace,
more about killing
than we know about living

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

offering a place for sleep and communication of course

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

very good experiences in Milan, Amsterdam, Belgium, Switzerland, Munich, Luxemburg, England, Toulouse, San Marino, Denmark, Budapest, Chisinau, Bucuresti, Kyiv, Minsk, Malta, Reykjavik, Amman, Jerusalem, Helsinki, Tallinn, Russia, Riga, Algeria, Tunisia, Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Managua, Gambia, Dakar, Nouakchott, Morocco, Oviedo, Colombia, Bangkok, Hanoi, Singapore, UAE, Oman and USA; hosted people from France, Spain, USA, Azerbaijan, Portugal, Italy, Latvia, Serbia, Russia, Colombia and Mexico; I took part in CS meetings in Clermont Ferrand

Interests

music and traveling;
learning languages (especially romance languages)
alternative culture around the globe;

  • literature
  • traveling
  • punk music
  • rock music
  • mountaineering
  • languages
  • hitchhiking
  • feminism
  • anarchism
  • alternative lifestyles
  • antifascism

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Singles, Hype!, Suburbia, I Woke Up Early the Day I Died;
music: Melvins, Mudhoney, Thrown Ups, Cows, Halo of Flies, Laughing Hyenas, Tad, Dead Moon, God Bullies, Unsane, God Bullies, Cop Shoot Cop, Cosmic Psychos, Love 666, Jesus Lizard, Boss Hog, Derelicts, X, Dickless, L7, Babes in Toyland, 7 Year Bitch, Free Kitten, Lunachicks, Gits, Spitboy, Aus Rotten, Hüsker Dü, Replacements, Dwarves, Meatmen;
books: Douglas Coupland, Juan José Millás, Pío Baroja, John Steinbeck

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

some really great rock shows (Mudhoney, Melvins, Unsane, Blag Dahlia, Jesus Lizard, Today is the Day, Cosmic Psychos, Meatmen, Babes in Toyland, Flipper, Derelicts),
squatting in Basque country and Mexico,
have spent time in streets and squats of London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Athens, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Seattle and ...walking around in Prishtina, Chisinau, Baku, Minsk, Amman, Algiers, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Nouakchott, Dushanbe, Bandar Seri Bagawan;
visited North Cyprus, Palestine and Western Sahara;
exploring the Darién gap rainforest (both sides: Darién in Panama and Los Katíos in Colombia), rode the iron ore train in Mauritania, travelling the Pamir Highway, hiking/climbing: Iztaccíhuatl (México 5230 mts), lake Cóndor Cocha (Ecuador 5100 mts), Ak-Baital pass (Tajikistan 4655 mts), Cofre de Perote (México 4282 mts), Volcan Barú (Panama 3475 mts), hitchhiking Barcelona - Sofia (2500 km for 3 days), swimming with sharks in the Coral Reef (Belize), crossing Azerbaijan by thumb, riding a bicycle 70 km when it was 40 degrees in Cambodia , drove 1000 km in the USA, assisted on the evening praying on the roof of the Ghardaïa Great mosque (Algeria), being in Tel Aviv while Hamas was throwing rockets on it...

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visited 50 states (100 %) in Europe, 19 states (44.2 %) in Asia, 6 states (10.9 %) in Africa and 12 states (34.3 %) in America

total visited 87 countries (35%)
visited 246 UNESCO world heritage sites

Teach, Learn, Share

it's possible to learn only from the experience (personal or other's experience)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritania, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Western Sahara

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, France, Mexico, Spain

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