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Overview

  • 32 references 22 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • student veterinary medicine
  • No education listed
  • From Netherlands
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

driving with a small van from the North of Canada to the South of South-America

ABOUT ME

**I don't live in Amsterdam!**
(And I like personal couchrequests)

As everyone here, I love travelling. During my travelling I found out that I don't have to see everything that's possible, every temple, every lake. I quit climbing every mountain. The more I want to explore the culture and the daily live in those new places. I like to travel the cheap way. The best food is the food you can buy on the streets, and the best transport are the local busses, or by foot. I feel happy when I'€™m sitting beside the street eating some bread with banana in the morning.

Here's a list with things I want to do:

- Buy a bike and just start biking
- Get really good in my profession (veterinarian). Doing a good research project, or maybe even specialize in neurology
- Do the minivan thing
- Hitchhike to Berlin for great parties
- Swimming a 10km open water match
- Live in the desert for a while (with some cool people of course)
- Start a small bakery and sell cakes in the middle of Africa

If there are other crazy things I have to do, surf my couch and share your ideas.

Cheers!

PHILOSOPHY

The rain won't stop you, right?

If you lose the need to wander, you belong

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would love to have friends all over the world. Sharing great adventures, beers in the streets, recipes. Improving my English by learning weird words, listening to stories, get new friends

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Protesting in the streets of Jerusalem, thinking you're dying while riding a motorbike in Saigon, getting totally wasted with some couchsurfers in Dubai, and three days later again in Delhi. Get involved in Indian festivals, learn how to make Nepali food. Philosophize about random questions and traveling plans… Karaoke Alice Cooper on a couchsurfing meeting in Riga, and do the same 2 years later in Delhi. I've been in churches and mosques. I slept in big villa's and on the floor in wooden houses. I enjoyed a cooking class at 5 am, and made apple pie in 10 different countries... Love it!

Interests

swimming, scouting, baking cakes:-), several-day hikes to awesome places, live music, running, laughing, campfires, crushed black pepper, camping, the desert, the smell of fress coriander, thunderstorms,surfing, scuba diving, street artists, strange but delightful food, mountains, dreaming, snowboarding, and travelling off course

  • culture
  • street art
  • festivals
  • dining
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • beer
  • baking
  • running
  • partying
  • traveling
  • music
  • live music
  • karaoke
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • snowboarding
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I should see more movies, get inspired by good music. I read books when I'm traveling, this second hand stuff you can get everywhere.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hiking the Annapurna circuit in the Himalaya, Nepal. 2 weeks, 200 km, with a maximum height of 5400 metres.

Joining an engagement party in Morocco.

Joining the World scout jamboree in Thailand (2003), England (2007)and Sweden (2011)

Camping in Israel:-)

Teach, Learn, Share

If you want it or not, I will teach you how real Dutch apple pie taste

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands

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