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Overview

  • 26 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Catalan, Valencian, English, Spanish; learning Portuguese, Russian
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Engineer
  • Master's degree, Bachelor with Honours & Engineering HND
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

enjoy the life with people from other countries! :)

ABOUT ME

I love travel, meet and share my time with new people from other countries as to me is really exotic and interesting.

I am very open mind as I was on lots of countries and met with lot of different people. In fact I was on countries like Albania, Austria, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Myanmar, Marocco, Montenegro, Norway, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Transnistria, Turkey, Ukraine, United States and Vatican. Also I was living on some of these countries for long time ago, like England, Scotland, Portugal or Finland.

I try always keep myself smiling! :) enjoying the life! and share my feelings to others!

PHILOSOPHY

Share my time with interesting people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I visited 47 states.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not yet, I just host others on my home and meeting people over the street, but I was never hosted as normally I go to hotels or hostels :)

Interests

travel, party, meet new people, sharing experiences, enjoy the life as much as I can!

Of course I love practice sports like Football, Beach volley and specially ultra running.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies
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American History X (1998) Apocalypse Now (1979) Back to the Future (1985) Being John Malkovich (1999) Big Fish (2003) Braveheart (1995) Cidade de Deus (2002) Citizen Kane (1941) Clerks. (1994) Fight Club (1999) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Hostel (2005) Hotel Rwanda (2004) In the Name of the Father (1993) Into the Wild (2007) Leon (1994) La haine (1995) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) Lord of War (2005) Memento (2000) Pulp Fiction (1994) Requiem for a Dream (2000) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Schindler's List (1993) Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) Snatch. (2000) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) The Beach (2000/I) The Big Lebowski (1998) The Godfather (1972) The Last King of Scotland (2006) The Patriot (2000) This Is England (2006) Trainspotting (1996) Tropa de Elite (2007) Twelve Monkeys (1995) Zatoichi (2003)

Music
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- U2. - Beastie boys. - Eddie Vedder. - Jamiroquai. - Michael Jackson. - Pennywise. - Rancid. - Sugar Ray. - Sum41. - The Clash. - The cure. - Los Ramones. - Dropkick Murphys. - Pantera. - The hives. - Muse. - Coldplay. - Artic monkeys. - Lynyrd Skynyrd. - Pearl Jam. - Placebo. - The Eagles. - Bob marley. - Legiao urbana. - Tribalistas. - Buena vista social club. - La polla records. - Silmarils. - Def con dos. - Fito. - Platero. - Molotov. - Extremoduro. - Muchachito bombo infierno. - Combat circus. - Fatboy slim. - Prodigy. - Orbital. - Moby. - Infected mushrooms. - Chemical brothers. - Utah saints. - Depeche mode. - Goran Bregovic. - Bach. - Also any techno, dance and disco music.

Books
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- 1984 by George Orwell. - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. - Island by Aldous Huxley. - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. - Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. - The art of war by Sun Tzu. - Tao te king by Lao Tse. - The communist's manifest by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. - Ulises by James Joyce. - Flatland by Edwin Abbott. - Momo by Michael Ende. - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. - Theory of relativity by Albert Einstein. - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. - The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. - The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter's.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Run 101 KM in the mountain without assistance.
- Bike MTB 142 KM in the mountain without assistance.
- Run a marathon over the ice with -17 C and survive to min. temperature of -37 C.
- Being in Svalbard in winter.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach, Learn, Share...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Beer, coffee, lunch, dinner, showing the city I am currently living, sharing trips fully or partially...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Myanmar, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

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