With great regret I paid for the couchsurfing membership this year, it completely goes against everything I used to love couchsurfing for, but hopefully through collective action we can remove the fees and go back to a community based model open for all Great addition to traveling. Its nice to have new people at my house every so often.

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Naguib Mahfouz, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Khaled Hosseini, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Haruki Murakami, John Steinbeck Every and any kind of music is welcome: from new-wave African funk, to hard techno, to Nils Frahm, John Coltrane and everything in between. My favourite tree is the Ginkgo tree.