Jasper Haenen

It's not often that you meet a person and that you know from the very first instant that it will work out. I had that feeling with Jasper. He's funny, easygoing, flexible, and always in for a good talk.
I hoop I will see a lot more of him in time, sure that we can become 'real' friends if you give us more than 2 days ^^.

See you in februari Jasper, pls keep the couch warm until then and the events rolling!

Somehow he knows Sinterklaas, and was willing to take me to Spain! I'm still waiting for you to come pick me up- my bag is ready :D Anyway- Jasper rocks. I've met him over several meetings but didn't know how much he sparkles till Sinterklaas 2008. He is funny, energetic, and a GREAT dancer! Looking forward to the next Midnight summer event! If you need help- I'm in!

He is the best Piet that Sinterklaas ever could wish for. I love this guy, with or without his make-up;)
Meet him, visit my home town. Jasper is a really nice cool personality, good humor, go meet him, I will:)

We hosted Jasper and Liza just before we left for holidays: he's active, restless and knows many things. Unfortunately we were busy and we'd loved to spend more time with them showing them around, but they did it really well: they even went to a CS meeting in Barcelona.

I got to know Jasper as a very active and communicative couchsurfer who likes bringing people together. One of his specialties is "promoting" also smaller towns in the Netherlands that can be thrilling, interesting and fun places to visit. I am sure he will show you many places through a unique lense when you surf his couch in Utrecht.

Jasper was very nice to show me a little bit on Utrecht and Rotterdam in very short warning time. Jasper can also recomend exellent beers. Thank you again.

Jasper is a cool, interesting and funny guy with loads of information and stories stored in his brain for your hearing pleasure!! He could certainly stear you in the right direction for places to go and things to see if you so happened to share his love for typical european cities!

Me and a friend surfed his place for a couple days and it was certainly a nice experience, we met up with he and Liza as well as a bunch of other CS'ers for a beerfestival and it was a great night with great people!

Jasper and Liza hosted me and a friend for two nights in Utrecht. They are a wonderful couple who are true CSers. We had a great time just wandering the city and taking in the beautiful architecture and scenery. They took us to a Bokbierfestival with other CSers and I'll always remember riding the bicycles back that night. Your always around good people, good music and good times with Jasper and Liza.

Jasper and his girlfriend were in Berlin for 3 days, his request was a kind of emergency request coz a friend of him was unreachable. Unfortunally we had not time to show them arround, but we enjoyed the moments with them. It was short to know them well, nevertheless they proved to be good, considerate guests. If you have the chance to host them - take it! Hope to see Jasper and Lisa again in future -maybe in Utrecht, if someone could show me arround in Utrecht - then it will be Jasper, just my 2 cents :)
Regards from the dog, think that she got 2 new friends ;)

What a pitty that you could not stay longer at the event because of hitchiking back the next morning. I think you arrived home safely! I met Jasper and his girlfriend Lisa in Oct. 2008 in Berlin for the Opening of FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS. THANKS to his and Lisa's help I could do some very nice pictures of the water what was lit in a lot of colors in front of the Humboldt University. He protected me and my tripod in the very chaotic crowd full with people, cars and buses. Was it you who spotted the "wrong chancellor" on the balcony of the Operahouse? We biked the tour while others walked. Met on each place, had chats about Berlin and CS-events. Awesome this sit-in at Gendarmenmarkt. I hope you are coming back to Berlin and I'll see you again. Hopefully you can join Berlin WinterCamp? It would be a pleasure to host you and Lisa if your shout is early enaugh. ;-)))

First time i met Jasper, he was Inspector Leclou. Although he didn't kill me himself, it was his force behind the three bullets that killed me. :D

But in reallife he is a really nice and funny guy. He knows a lot about geography and cooking and he is more then a pleasant host. I had a lot of fun at Liza & Jaspers home and it was also a nice place to just lay back and relax. And you have to visit a concert of his Skaband Stampede, they are awesome! :D
See you around in Utrecht!

Does this man ever stop? I think couch surfing is his full time job!?

Dear Inspector LeClou, I am very grateful that you helped me to break free from Mr X. You have proven to be very trustworthy and I respect you for that.

I am looking forward to seeing you again in Paris or Utrecht, but hopefully in somewhat less hectic situations.

Thankfully yours,

Mme Ctesse A. DeVille

Great, active couchsurfer, good company, hope we'll meet again soon :>

I met Jasper at so many cs events, im not sure how many. Jasper is a great guy. Always in for a laugh and a really good musician!

I met Jasper at the first CS Monty Python meeting he had organised. He is very friendly, hospitable and relaxed person.
I stayed with them overnight because the Monty Python meeting was a succes and was kept on until the late hours of the night. And I slept as a baby on their couch. (a peaceful baby that is).

Thank you.

Man of the earth!Knows his planet and one of the most active guys on CS in Utreg.Helps where he can!

I hosted Jasper and Lisa for a single night in Toulouse this summer - and wish they had stayed longer! It was short to know them well, nevertheless they proved to be good, considerate guests and nice company. We mostly shared diner and talked. I enjoyed chatting with them and I look forward to meeting up again, wherever that may be :)

Jasper is so nice he'll no doubt organize a wonderful Dutch pilgrimage to West-Vleeteren. Leuk je te leren kennen, tot snel!

Jasper seems to be a practical, open, Dutch person and a reliable Ambassador. I think CS Utrecht is in good hands!

Jasper himself sometimes resembles a storm, busy with sixteen and more things mixing them up in a likeble way. Other times, he is more relaxed but still passionately speaking about whichever subject, geograpy, music, the world in general.
His place is great. Jasper shows how things go about and trusted me that I could get around.

Jasper came with Marianne's (MACHITA) good reference, enough to say, i only checked out his profile out of curiosity.

He is an excellent guest that understood and didnt mind my busy life. Anyway i tried to spend some time during 2 afternoon with him and had fun and cool conversations... really great guy and a good example of how to use and enjoy CS!

I met Jasper first thru the Madrid's group, then we just exchanged few messages and at the end we had the chance to meet in one of our meetings in Madrid and it was a pleasure to meet him and Liza. I can say that Jasper is very talkative, smiling guy and full of stories although Jasper and Liza had a small problem in Madrid, they never stoped to smile. It was really nice and interesting to meet them. Always welcome to Madrid

Jasper comes to Barcelona, and share some of his time with us, and let us enjoy good time with his presence! Know that if you never come back to Barcelona you will be welcome!

Hosting this couple, was the easiest for me, getting to know them, was difficult because I just met them for a day, but they are trully the CS spirit, they were a charming and well-behaved, respectful couple ever to visit my place.

Both Jasper and Liza were very nice to me on my first day in the Netherlands. They are both very gracious and I enjoyed my first meeting in Utrecht! I look forward to hopefully going to more meetings and seeing them there! Great first experience overall!

Jasper is an enthousistic friendly guy, always a smile on! If you like board games then he is the one you should talk to. I guess we'll meet at the next gathering...And what a gathering! Midsummernight in Utrecht was the best of all and even though Jasper and Liza were running all over the place to organize and make sure all went well, we enjoyed their company. They hosted us and they made sure we felt at home. Incredible couple!

Jasper & Lisa are the greatest CS Host ever! We had a great time surfing their couch. Few times have one the opportunity to meet such a nice and friendly couple, who welcomes you not only in their house with other several CS but organize also a big party in the city! They both treated us with a hospitality along with giving you the opportunity to get to know the very special Netherlands culture through the most fantastic way, a treasure hunting! all the best & thank you again for your effort & commitment to CS!
I forgot to mention: He is such an easy going & laid back person, it's great!

I stayed at his and Liza's place for the midsummer night at the park. Jasper seems a very funny and friendly sort but we never got to talk much.
Hope to talk to you some more in the future.
Thanks for hosting me and thanks for the wonderful organisation!

Jasper and Liza hosted me and my friends and 7 others for a huge midsummer party that they and the other Utrecht members arranged perfectly.
Im amazed of the hospitality that Jasper and Liza showed for so many people! Thank you very much and hope to see you for New Year :D (or before/after)

Jasper is a friendly and interesting guy, who seems to be always ready to help couchsurfers (or anyone else) out. I know him for his fantastic work as one of the organizers of the 2008 Midsummer night in the park where he and the rest did a great job, as well as at the Utrecht Monthly meetings, and of course he has ties to our local Leiden community (for now) as he works here in Leiden

Jasper is very good company to talk with! He's active with his job as an Amb and I think he's doing a good job in it!

Thanks for hosting the meeting, the company and showing me the tourist rout in Utrecht ;)

They have got there one cs room and you really fell welcome at there house.

Now I know Japer for a year and after meeting him and Liza many times I can only say that he is a great person that even managed to open my mind futher than it already was.
As He and Liza hosted me many times I can only say that i don't know many people in CS that I trust as much as him.
Great to meet you (any time)

Friendly guy, very active in CS Utrecht...go see his band skabadivers!

Liza and Jasper have a beautiful new home that they kindly invited me into so I could revisit the awesome city I studied abroad at two years ago! They are very easy-going and comfortable people to be around, both doing great work through their normal jobs and volunteering projects! It was fun to hear about plans for CSers this summer, sort of makes me want to return! Thanks again for your hospitality and knowledge about Utrecht!

A cool couple of people with a very nice new house; in a really wonderful city heading for the future;

wich shall be wicked/ cheers for showing me round

Jasper and his girlfriend made me feel very welcome at my first gathering with surfers from Utrecht. They both are very involved in the project and put a lot of effort to it. They are very friendly, relaxed and humoristic people. And of course Jasper made me aware of the existence of the allready legendary Alex Siegers, for which i am very grateful to him :-D

Jasper is really enthusiast about the things he does: making music, teach other people about geografical things and so much more. He really wants to spread his 'know how' about these things: born teacher.

I had the pleasure to be almost the first guest at Jasper's new house :D It was short but fantastic stay. As we left early in the morning we even didn't manage to say thank you for your hospitality and showing the city so here goes my huge thanks :)

An optimistic, open minded guy! It was really fun to spend an afternoon with him walking around the streets of Utrecht and (thanks to him!) getting to now the city, then to party during QueensNight together and eventually to surf his couch in a beautiful house he and her girlfriend have. Thanks for everything!

Jasper is one of the driving people of CS in Utrecht, we keep on bumping into each other. If you ever get the chance try and see him and his band play, guaranteed party and lots of jumping

Jasper is a very cool and fun guy. He is as enthusiastic about his music, as he is about Couchsurfing and about his city Utrecht. I had a great experience meeting him and Liza, at Blueroute. They are wonderful hosts for events and great ambassadors for the city. I am surely coming again to your city.

I was happy to finally meet Jasper at the Friday Food Fun in Rotterdam after seeing his name over and over again in groups and other CS related pages. The guy is very talkative and we were having a good time from the start. Looking forward to probably seeing him again on April 29 in Utrecht.

Jasper has the real CouchSurfing spirit. He succeeds to spread this spirit around him and to make more and more people enthousiastic for CS. Utrecht couldn't have a better ambassador.

In my fisrt trip away from home alone, I was sleeping in his coach, we didn't know anything about this web site, but we did that and is a great experience, thats the reason why i'm here and the experience is the reason why i'm travelling arround the world. that was great, so i did that again and again and again...

Thank you very much!!....Jasper was really so kind and gentle in giving us any kind of advices and info about Utrecht and Holland.Really trustful and helpful guy.Nice to talk about everything with him and Lisa! Great promoter about CS and Utrecht!

Jasper and I had some lively conversations. He forms a good ambassador's couple with Liza. Jasper is a very active and enthusiastic person. He is involved in CS, plays in a musicband and teaches kids about useful stuff in life.

Jasper is another enthousiastic person that strives for CS excellence! Appreciate what he is doing for Utrecht.

Although he calls me Elsy (foei!) i still enjoyed meeting him. he is really getting an active cs life in utrecht. good luck with moving, and be prepared to host all of us in your new place :-)

Jasper is a cool ska musician couchsurfer. Meeting him and Liza has been great, not just a fantastic couchsurfing experience but mainly a super gorgeous way of starting a new friendship. I'll see him again at the *GIGSWAPPING* event soon. I am looking forward to dance like crazy while his band plays.

Jasper and Liza were my first couchsurfing hosts and it was a wonderful experience! They were so accommodating and generous and they gave great tips on what to do around Utrecht/Netherlands. They invited us to a CS meeting too, which was great, and it was really cool that they were so enthusiastic about the couch surfing project.

Jasper is a super enthusiastic Couch Surfer and CS promoter. Open, friendly and hospitable, he is great guy to hang out with.
Ow, and his Ska band rocks big time!

We were both at a FREE HUGS meeting in Utrecht. He was kind of an arranger I had the idea, bringing people together and coordinating the afternoon haha.

Jasper kindly opened up his home to a bunch of CouchSurfers for a post-meeting dinner. This was my first encounter with the community and he couldn't have made me feel more welcome. I had a great time and it turned me onto Couchsurfing!

Staying with Jasper is an interesting think to do! Specially if the games containd card with wome weird names for me! The important is that he can explain You how it works! For sure we will meet again on future events! Good luck on Your band!

Cool guy, very self-confident, cheerful, friendly, great music fan :) He invited us all to a dinner at his and Liza's place after the FreeHugs meeting for some delicious meal! He is fanatic about board games together with Liza. Was a fun evening, thanks!

Jasper has been at all the CS meetings I've gone to in Utrecht.

He came over at my first meeting and started talking to a bunch of us newbies, because we were crowded together. Thanks for making me feel welcome.

Very good at board games! My goal is to one day beat him at one!lol

I felt really comfortable 'free hugging' with Jasper and his friends! It was lots of fun, and very nice of him to have dinner at his place with 16 people! Nice and Cozy! I love his Hummus!

Jasper is a great guy, and it's amaizing that we've only known each other for around two months and are getting along really well. He has a good taste in music too!

Very cool guy with lots of thoughts about education and social issues.

Compassionate I would say.

I look forward to a dinner :)

I can't imagine there is one day in Jaspers life without couch surfing. Always busy with planning, organising, hosting. Unbelievable! And on top of that: time to meet people or exchange views. It's a privilege to have him here in Utrecht!

I would like to thank Jasper very much for receiving me so well in his home!!! Thanks for Monty Python and the tasty dinner!!!
Jasper is a very open minded and amiable person.

Jasper is a cool person who has his way of life. He knows a lot of things about Utrecht. I thank him for his hospitality.

We didn't have so much time to know each other(he had to work), anyway, he and his girlfriend were really nice, cooked tortellini and,wow, they have a lot of funny stories to tell!Plus, Jasper is a musician, maybe i will have the pleasure to see a concert of his ska-band one day...(i really hope)!!

Jasper hosted me and Arnaud during 3 days in Utrecht. He is nice and has many knowledge in history and politics, he is so a great tourist guide to show his city which is wonderful. I enjoyed to talk with him, because he has the same passion has me: history. Come whenever you want in Lille, you have a couch available, for you and for Liza !

I did not see Jasper very much. But I can tell that he seems a nice guy and I wouldn't doubt to host him if needed.

Nice, considerate and fun to be around. I'd host them again anytime.

Jasper is a very friendly guy. He's really into couchsuring and has hosted many people in the past.

Jasper is involved in organising the Utrecht CS meetings, he also joined the GigSwap group I started and moderate. He is a open and friendly outgoing guy, he introduced me to some other great people I got along with fine aswell.

Jesper is one of the core ppl for Utrecht CS and great to talk to.

Jasper is interested in a lot of things and he is very passionate about them, so I really enjoyed talking with him. I look forward to having him show Utrech to me! Must be fun!

Couchsurfing Utrecht = Jasper & Liza. You should meet those two. I am so glad that I know them through CS! They are the most passionate CSers I ever met. They will let you feel as if you were in your home town. Check also the Utrechtmeetings, they will be there!

he is very goed person.

Jasper is a great company, open minded, unbeatable in table-soccer but has too much immagination in medieval story games :p

I stayed at Jasper's for two nights. It was great because I had the chance of meeting REALLY kind and cool people. I hoped he enjoyed and wont get any fallout from the Mont d'Or cheese I left in his fridge !
His place is warm and agreable and I liked sharing their room. Too bad they had a hectic schedule (and me too actually). I think I must delve deeper into the utrecht CS comunity since meeting Jasper. THANKS again.
Couchsurfers -> stay in Utrecht, it is worth it !
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I later had the joy of hosting both Liza and Jasper myself in Toulouse. It was great :) !

Well Jasper, of course you already have to many references to read, but I know you for quite some time now so I feel I should leave a reference anyway.
Jasper: good fun, good music, decent guy, good organizer. That kind of wraps it up for me :) Great to have you as our ambassador!

I was his guest with my boyfriend. We had very nice time and had a lot of fun at Jasper place. He showed us the simulation of the flood in the Netherlands..scary :) Well this geographer is so nice, funny person and good cook. He and his girlfriend are very positive and open people. Definitely I can recomande him.

What can I say, Jasper is a really nice guy! He and Liza organize most (all) of the CS-Utrecht meetings, so the rest of us lazy people just need show up.
He also knows a lot about Utrecht and its history. More meetings will follow, with interesting conversations and would love to learn more about the city that i now call home.

jasper is a great example of couch surfing spirit.. not only hosting and organizing.. but teaching about it too.. cool guy

We talked for a while about msic. I told Jasper that I was interested in folkloristic music. He sent me some tips, that was nice:)

Jasper is a meeting keeper he joined us for the meeting in Amsterdam.
Hope to see you in Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam or elsewhere!

I have met Jasper and Liza several times now. They are true couchsurfers, welcoming everyone with open arms. They kindly offered me a last minute couch to crash on after a night in Utrecht turned late. Luckily they don't snore (just kidding ;-). See you around!!

He's an extremely cool guy! He's welcoming and open, very insightful to listen to, and knows how to rock out! I am very glad to have met and partied with him at Sziget!

Jasper is a friendly, positive guy, really into Couchsurfing. Did meet too short, so see you at Sinterklaas!