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Overview

  • 13 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Czech; learning English, German, Spanish
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Travelling, hiking, repairing cars
  • That was a battle....
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

GR20, Fjallraven Classic - mission complete. Ortler - Mission failed, not goin to try again. Coming soon: B7, 5BV, Kungslegen, TMB, Halti

ABOUT ME

Friendly, talkative, open-minded....All the usual chliches you can read in any CS profile are (partly) valid with me. Lets move to some specific stuff then.

I love to move around. I would travel hundreds of kilometers just to see a friend, have a beer or a cofee with him - and then hundreds of kilometers back home - for pure joy of beeing on the move. Usually by hitch hiking.

I love to help people. Driving a stranger, who at around midnigth ran out of fuel to the next petrol station is a delight for me. A friend is moving and needs two strong arms to carry all the stuff? Ill surely be there! Another friend is repairing a car and needs help? Yep, ill come in!

I love absurd situations, like being lost with nothing but a lighter on the north of Sweeden. Or - being overlooked and missed by a friend who had to pick me up on the petrol station in Italy and yet again completly lost. Or - driving a rental car, which breaks up in the middle of highway, has no highway tax payed, has no papers... In general - the feeling "Wow, now im REALLY screwed". It just happens that the meaning of really screwed is pushed further with each new situation.

I hate dishonesty, lie, unjustice.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live. Do not tell others how to live, they have their own way. You can never tell if your (opinion on their) way is better!!

Do not take yourself too seriously. Do not take anything too seriosly. Howerver bad today - tommorow, its gonna be history and a funny memory. Next week itll probably the story to tell friends and laugh at.

Whatever happens - it may lead you to a new, unexpected destination / target / situation. Which maybee is not the one you want to achieve right now, but maybee it is better for you. The future will show. You can never tell....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Not a great deal, but: I just enjoy to host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only positive so far.

Interests

Travelling, technics in general, cars, engineering, hiking, climbing, swimming....

  • beer
  • traveling
  • cars
  • hiking
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • engineering
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Mostly, but not strictly rock and metal - and besides, everything with guitar, including folk music, bluegrass....

Movies: Haven't seen any for ages

Books: Mostly professional technical literature (Scahefller group publisehes nice handbooks, for example :-)). But i enjoy also books of Paulo Coelho, Don Miguel Ruiz, Kay Pollak....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

* Hitch-hike trip from A to B, which turned out to finish in C, with a little break in D and finally i found myself working on construction site in E (where A = Croatia, B = Czech rep, C = Slovakia, D = Budapest, E = Germany )

* Yet another hitch - hike trip from Jihlava to Livorno, full of beatifull moments and nice lucky events

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Greece, Israel, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic

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