CURRENT MISSION

Join the navy and see the world ... ok, no navy, just see the world

ABOUT ME

I lived most of my life in Porto, Portugal.
2 years ago I went to the beautiful city of Leiden in Netherlands to do my masters and now, thanks to that experience (which I only expected to increase my awareness in non scientific areas :D) I'm doing my PhD in Lisbon.
For the past 3/4 years I've been traveling all around Europe thanks to BEST, a student organization I've joined. That made the travels quite more interesting since I hate to just stay at an hostel and meet none or very few people (although in Sofia and Krakow I had a crazy time with some people I've met in my situation).
That's why couch surfing looks perfect, it's a bit what I did before, hosting people and show them our culture and those small things in our city that only the locals get to know and making friend across Europe (now the world I hope), going abroad and get the same in return.
And instead of the appetite for new places subsiding I think it's only increasing more and more each time I travel.

PHILOSOPHY

Live fast ... but try to live long if that doesn't ago against the 1st rule.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well, I've joined some months ago, but only now, in this sort of vacations I'm in I got the time to really check CS.
Some room got free at my flat so I though it was a good time to start hosting someone.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Well, I've been in many different places, but the one that I always liked more, is of a friend couple I have in Madrid. No matter when I had to sleep in mattress on the floor or in a bed there it was always perfect ... in the end what counts is the people.

Interests

Music (any kind as long as it has good taste ... no Britney Spears and the likes please), Astronomy (my area), Photography (well, I like it ... it doesn't mean I'm good at it), Traveling (of course)

• culture
• photography
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• astronomy

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Radiohead, Portishead, Air, Amy Winehouse, Anthony and the Jonhnsons, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Blonde Readhead, Cut Copy, David Bowie, Doors, Franz Ferdinand, Iggy Pop, Infadels, Jeff Buckley, Nouvelle Vague, Pixies, Pulp, The Strokes, Zero7

Movies:
Memento, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Clockwork Orange, Closer, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Trainspotting, Amadeus, In Bruges ...

Books:
George Orwell "1984", "Animal Farm", Aldous Huxley "Brave New World", Gabriel García Márquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude", José Saramago "An Essay About Blindness", Emily Brontë "Wuthering Heights", Ievgueni Zamiatine "We", Frank Herbert "Dune", Oscar Wilde "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well, not amazing but crazy was to be kidnapped for some minutes by a taxi driver in Sofia, Bulgaria when I refused to leave the taxi until the guy gave me the correct change for the payment I just gave to him ... after some taxi rides we all got fed up of them trying to steal us money everytime :)

Teach, Learn, Share

Well, I just started now in CS, so let's leave this for a while.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sao Tome and Principe, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Portugal