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Overview

  • 95 references 55 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning Dutch, French, Spanish
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • sometimes occupied
  • Software Engineering
  • From Lisbon, Portugal
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Be good, be bad

ABOUT ME

I'll stick to main adjectives: tolerant, open-minded, helpful, sincere, shy, inconformist, reliable.

You'll have to find out the negatives by yourself! :)

PHILOSOPHY

What goes around comes around.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had quite a good share of guests at my place, it's been always a nice experience. I've only surfed few times, but it's a totally different approach to discover a city when you are staying at a "home".

Interests

Music, mostly indie/independent.
Cinema, from Almodovar to Todd Solondz.
Sports, football of course, tennis and basketball.

  • movies
  • music
  • sports
  • basketball
  • soccer
  • tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

Too much good music out there to be discovered, a few all-time favourites: Sigur Ros, Portishead, dEUS, Nick Cave, Tindersticks...

Last bands to rock my world: Local Natives, Beirut, Arcade Fire, Anne Brun, all nordic melancholic pop (Sigur Ros, Efterklang, Mum, Anja Garbarek, Hanne Hukelberg, etc).

I love descovering exciting new music, specially groups local to the country I'm visiting. Any tips on that particular discovery journey are welcome :)

Some all-time favourite movies: Happiness, Trainspotting, Cidade de Deus, Festen, ...

TV comedies: Seinfeld, Simpsons, Gato Fedorento (Portuguese), Monty Phytons, currently addicted to Family Guy.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Couchsurfing!

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Portugal

Old School Badges

  • 16 Vouches
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