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  • 55 references 41 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning Italian, Persian (Farsi), Portuguese, Turkish
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Film-maker, writer, and NGO leader
  • Civil engineering, green buildings
  • From Lyon, Rhône, France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Trying to create a media made by citizen and travellers, helping them to investigate and share what they have explored, with the NGO On the Green Road: https://onthegreenroad.com/

Sharing about ecological awareness around the world, through a video-documentary of a round of the world by bicycle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jouYlY8gkuk

ABOUT ME

It's so difficult to describe itself. Furthurmore in english...

I try to be fun , sociable and open-minded, and hope to reach it many time, since I'm very few time moving without a big smile! I really enjoy to speak with people, play with the words, balance on their thin blade and follow sometimes in more philosophical discussions. How howesome is it to share different and original points of view !

I love to travel, and do everything which enable me to meet crazy people, feel other experiences and discover new things. I'm also interested by architecure, substainable solutions, geopolitics, drawing, reading, photography, filming, gastronomy and theater.

Starting a huge reflexion about sustainability, sure that it had to be made by the bottom people, I begun with my cousin a world bicycle tour. Filming and intervewing during the trip about ecological awarenesses and then realized a video-documentary. I shared it more than 300 times animating loud debates.

Few by few, the project, named On The Green Road, has grown, and started to help others travellers to make their own movie, photo or other types inquiries. With a team, we try to help their wonderfull projets to start, develop themselves, and be shared...

Our website: http://onthegreenroad.com/

and facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/OnTheGreenRoad/

PHILOSOPHY

"Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité" Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Be the change you wish to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi

Disfrutar de cada momento de la vida! Carpe diem

Don't worry, be happy!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Me gusta mucho la mente de la gente de CS. Que buenas ondas!
Entonces participo a unos meetings, paseos y fiestas...
De nuevo sedentario, sera con placer que hare descubrir mi ciudad : Lyon !!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A very good trekkıng close to Santıago de Chıle with 15 couchsurfers that ended, after the effort, ın a warm pub wıth all the group!
A trip in Atacama desert wıth a group met on CS,
A cycle tour in the old streets of Tabriz (Iran), with a crazy cyclist met on couchsurfing,
...

Todo muy entretenido!

And sınce the bıgınnıng of my round of the world by bıcycle, many people crazy met, wıth very good moods ...

Interests

Travelling by un-conventional ways, be close of the people, sustainability in all domains, philosophy, spirituality, architecture, drawing, photography, painting, writing, speaking, laughing, joking, being outside and discovering things, la Pachamama,...

  • architecture
  • photography
  • documentaries
  • pub crawls
  • reading
  • traveling
  • blogging
  • painting
  • drawing
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Pulp Fiction, The Dreamers, Banda Bilili, Lord of War, Tambien la lluvia...

Books: Les Cavaliers (Joseph Kessel), Le petit Prince (Saint Exupery), Fortune Carré (Joseph Kessel), Samarkand (Amin Maloof)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Make Amsterdam-Paris in 5 days biking a old netherland bycicle ...

Hitchiking between Santiago, Buenos Aires and La Paz...

A world bicycle tour...

Teach, Learn, Share

So many experiences to share...

- one year of crazy cycling and hosting stories, in so much country. Another way to discover many countries, from inside. (I love to narrate human stories ;) )

- sustainable ideas

- french and spanish languages

- how to hitch-hike

- movie-making

- ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Morocco, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, France

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