The first 5 years and 39 references are from myself when i used to travel a lot and used CS mostly to stay somewhere and meet people. In the meantime i settled again, so that I mostly host others to give back to the community. But I also plan to do trips and it would be great to be hosted again even as a small family. I love new experiences: new places, new food, new drinks, new activities and so on. Would love you to show me your favourite spots. Please read the whole "My Home" section before you send me a request. We all do copy and paste requests, I understand that, but come on, is it really that hard to say "Hi...". I get too many requests and will automatically decline the ones that don´t even contain the requested info. Because of the same reason you might get ignored if you send a normal message instead of a proper request.

CURRENT MISSION Always looking forward to the next trip. ABOUT ME I am very open-minded person, living in a small town in the Eastern part of Switzerland, called Appenzell. I love to travel, do sports, music. PHILOSOPHY Come as a stranger, go as a friend

primero en Espanol: Hola! Para mí, los encuentros humanos son las experiencad más hermosas cuando se viaja. Te puedo abrir mi corazón, aprender de ti y que aprendas de mi. Me gusta la gente positiva, de mente abierta que le guste compartir, simpatica, respetuosa, amigable y extrovertida! Me gusta conocer personas y hablar sobre lo que piensa la gente, conocer culturas diferentes. Soy alegre pero serio tambien, para mi es fundamental el respecto y la amistad. Me gusta el orden y la limpieza y por lo tanto espero lo mismo de los huéspedes - claro. Lo más emocionante de viajar son mi encuentros humanos, conocer gente! Estoy seguro: A Antoine de Saint Exupery también le encantaba el ciclismo: Diría con seguridad: "Solo se puede ver bien desde la bicicleta. Lo esencial permanece oculto del automóvil". Soy una persona observadora y tranquila. - Somos limpios, respetuosos y curiosos. PHILOSOPHIA: Que importa la edad cuando tienes un espíritu joven. Si meto mi bicicleta en tu vivienda sere cuidadoso para no estropearte nada. Ser feliz... Tener nuevos amigos y conservar aquellos que me quieren y aprecian. Me fascina viajar y conocer gente! Me gusta escuchar, aprender y colaborar en lo que pueda. Hace 20 años que hemos comenzado a pedalear, este hobbie en una manera de viajar. - Pienso seguro... Es la sola droga legal 😅 -para mi... Importante para mi huespedes: Viajo ligero y soy limpio y respetuoso. Tengo mucha experiencia de viajar con bici y me gusta compartir esto . Escribo una referencia para todos. Desafortunadamente, no todos lo hacen de esa manera. - Así que mis estadísticas son un poco unilaterales... Por favor, comprenda... Salut! Je m'appelle Christophe. Avec ma femme Elisabeth j'habite dans les Alpes, dans le vallée du Rhin - en Vorarlberg, aux sud du lac de Constance, près de la Suisse. J'ai décidé d'être heureux, je pense que c'est bon pour ma santé - Maintenant, je veux améliorer mon français et découvrir les paysages en vélo et à pied. - Je m'interesse à la culture Romaine. Franchement: Je voyage toujours absolument propre et equipé très leger avec un petit sac de velo. Si c'est nessesaire, je n'ai pas de probleme à porter mon vélo quelques étages et partir tôt le matin avec mon hôte. Je ne fume pas. Ma porte est toujours ouverte, mes 3 enfants sont adulte et partis - Ma joie - mon plaisir: 9 petit fils pendant les dernier 7 anées. La chose la plus excitante pour moi à propos de voyager est la rencontre avec les gens! Alors: Il faut vivre ses rêves et ne pas rêver sa vie… "Le monde est un livre. Ceux qui ne voyagent pas n'en connaissent qu'une seule page." - Saint Augustin. La vie est plus douce, quand on est deux - ou plus 😂 ! Italiano, later in English, mas tarde en Castillano, plus tarde en Francais und Deutsch...: Ciao! Per me gli incontri umani sono le esperienze più belle quando si viaggia. Posso aprire il mio cuore a te, imparare da te e imparare da me. Mi piacciono le persone positive, di mentalità aperta che amano condividere, amichevoli, rispettose, amichevoli ed estroverse! Mi piace incontrare persone e parlare di quello che pensa la gente, per conoscere culture diverse. Sono allegra ma anche seria, per me il rispetto e l'amicizia sono fondamentali. Mi piace l'ordine e la pulizia e quindi mi aspetto lo stesso dagli ospiti - ovviamente. La cosa più eccitante del viaggiare sono i miei incontri umani, incontrare persone! Sono sicuro: Anche Antoine de Saint Exupéry amava il ciclismo: diceva con sicurezza: "Si vede bene solo dalla moto. L'essenziale rimane nascosto all'auto". Sono una persona attenta e calma. - Siamo puliti, rispettosi e curiosi. PHILOSOPHIA: Che importanza ha l'età quando si ha uno spirito giovane. Se porto la mia bici a casa tua, farò attenzione a non danneggiare nulla. Sii felice... Fai nuove amicizie e tieniti stretto chi mi ama e mi apprezza. Adoro viaggiare e incontrare persone! Mi piace ascoltare, imparare e collaborare in qualunque modo possibile. Abbiamo iniziato ad andare in bicicletta 20 anni fa, questo hobby è un modo di viaggiare. - Penso di sì... È l'unica droga legale 😅 - per me... Importante per i miei ospiti: viaggio leggero e sono pulito e rispettoso. Ho molta esperienza di viaggi in bicicletta e mi piace condividerla. Scrivo un riferimento per tutti. Purtroppo non tutti lo fanno in questo modo. - Quindi le mie statistiche sono un po' unilaterali... Per favore, capisci... Ich heiße Christoph und lebe mit meiner Frau Elisabeth im vorarlberger Rheintal. Jeder muss immer wieder lachen und sich glücklich fühlen - denn es gibt zuviel Leid auf der Welt (Mordillo). Wir lieben Begegnungen mit Menschen, sei es bei uns oder auf Reisen. Mit Freude trainieren wir so Fremdsprachen - gibt es doch nichts Schöneres als auf diese Weise vielleicht neue Freunde zu gewinnen? Unsere 3 Kinder sind ausgeflogen - wir dürfen uns erfreuen an 9 Enkelkindern, so gibt es Platz für Freunde, Gäste bei uns. Am liebsten sind wir radwandernd unterwegs: So verkauften wir unser letztes Auto schon 1991, denn... ich bin mir sicher: Antoine de Saint Exupery liebte auch das Radfahren: Er würde sicher sagen: 'Man sieht nur von dem Fahrrad gut. Das Wesentliche bleibt einem vom Auto verborgen' . "Man ist naeher dran und oft mittendrin im Geschehen, keine Autoglasscheibe schirmt einen ab. Wir durften erfahren, dass die Menschen so gut wie überall freundlich und neugierig sind, ganz egal welche Hautfarbe sie haben und welcher Religion sie angehoeren; wir gewannen viel Sympathie und Interesse am Gespräch, an einer guten Unterhaltung! Ist dies doch die schönste Erfahrung auf Reisen. Als Gäste organisieren wir uns gerne selbst den Tag mit Kultur, Wandern, u.a.m. Wir freuen uns natürlich umso mehr den Abend mit guter Konversation, Erfahrungsaustausch, etc. zu erleben und kochen auch gern für unseren Gastgeber. Umgekehrt - für unsere Gäste: Wir sind mit der Erstellung eines Tagesprogrammes gerne behilflich . Ein Traum/ Vorbild? Die aelteste Frau aller Zeiten, die Franzoesin Jeanne Calment (+1997)- Jeanne d'Arle genannt, trank in ihrem 122-jaehrigen Leben taeglich ein Glas Portwein und rauchte bis sie 117 wurde und so schlecht sah, dass sie sich die Zigaretten nicht mehr selbst anzuenden konnte. Sie traf als junge Frau Vincent van Gogh in einem Pinselgeschaeft und meinte, der sei "ungewaschen und schlecht gekleidet" gewesen. Sie nahm mit 85 Jahren noch Fechtunterricht und fuhr als Hundertjaehrige F a h r - r a d ! - Na also! Geistig war sie voll da: Auf die Frage eines Reporters "Werde ich Sie naechstes Jahr wiedersehen?", antwortete sie: "Warum nicht, sie sehen doch ganz gesund aus?" Da war Calment 120 Jahre alt... Schon Wilhelm Busch wusste es: 'Viel zu spaet begreifen viele - die versaeumten Lebensziele: Freude, Schoenheit der Natur, Gesundheit, Reisen und Kultur. Darum Mensch, sei zeitig weise! Hoechste Zeit ist's: Reise, reise!' Reisen veredelt den Geist und räumt mit allen anderen Vorurteilen auf. Oscar Wilde (1900 - 1956) Johann Gottfried Seume: Es ginge vieles besser im Leben, wenn wir mehr gingen... Also gehen wir gerne 😂! plus tard en Francais, Italiano Hello from Christoph :  "Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride." ~Eddy Merckx I live for music, food and love. I live for stories told and untold. I live for the adventure! I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health! I prefer to travel to a location and immerse myself there like a local rather than hopping from place to place. We are respectful, absolutely clean, and curious. My PHILOSOPHY -This tells pretty much all: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowline! Sail away from the safe harbor! Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain Looking out for the wonderdrug to make me (even look...) 21 years youg again ;) CURRENT MISSION for my guests here: I have what you need - Just bring your smile! I love to be out in the nature, no matter what time of the year. Unfortunaltely my statistics between travelling and hosting looks unbalanced: I do not know why... - but many of our guests have forgotten to write/ leave a small memory/ reference on my site in cs..., as I do obligtorywise. ABOUT ME: Make people to smile! brother of four, father of three, grandfather of nine.... and husband of one -(she is really great: Teacher in special educational needs - so I can be happy: She is handling me always carefully well, already 45 years with a l o t of patience...!). Studied food technology and production, worked in an engineering company, planning and set up of food plants, The last 12 years: Consultant engineer for sustainability/ ecologic environement purposes in house construction, heating & maintainance, promoting renewable energies, using sun and wood, etc... Really craizy now: Car-free living since 1991 - So I enjoy using my feet and my bicycle often... : Isn't it wonderful coming home completely drowned, wet or half frozen - then taking a warm shower and drinking a cup of tea!? I'm sure: Antoine de Saint Exupery also loved cycling: He would say for sure: "You can only see well from the bicycle. The essentials remain hidden from a car." Discovering nature mainly walking or going by bicycle everywhere - because: "When the spirits are low, when day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking." My beloved Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mr. Sherlock Holmes! Important for me while traveling : I enjoy, I do not mind at all being left to my own devices most of the time once arrived somewhere! I like and enjoy organizing myself, making my plans (- if possible - of course and with pleasure according to your proposals, advices...). I am used to be talk-active enough the evenings… The most exciting while travelling are my encounters with people. Vice versa I enjoy accepting travellers at my home, who have ideas what to do - or they might follow my proposals or suggestions what to do, discovering here around... To our home: Temperature inside is basically under or around max. 20 degrees celcius:) - even during the winter. We don't like too warm / but we move / prefer fresh air. Please take off your street shoes in house - thanks for understanding. I want to help people as I can be a part of our dream of a world where people appreciate each other's differences and have fun while doing it. I know that we can get there together. I cannot immagine anymore traveling without contact/ meeting 'local people'. It would be poor. Thanks to www.Servas.org and his 'children' Couchsurfing, Velodach.ch, Dachgeber and Warmshowers.org we have a perfect possibility to get in contact easily. Our world is great and lonely, discover it and take the time for getting knowledge of people and learning foreign languages! We have to take (small) risks: We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. - Paulo Coelho Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles our Soul ;-) I need to meet people! - Make people to smile - get knowing people. I can open my heart if it flows, learn from you and see what happens. If I can't go and see the world, then the world can come to live with me! I am a talkative and open minded man, willing to meet people. I definitly like to share time and experiences with anyone who likes. To see a country is one thing...- communicating is another... Certainly I like to host people from other countries, I spent much time on travel, could enjoy often warm hospitality. I like to give some of it back. Of course: Welcome, please feel free also for using my kitchen, it's appreciated - and thanks really a lot more, if you clean it afterwards... COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE "the slower you move the more you see: Traveling is moving. If you define quality of traveling by experiences, you should slow down." España, France, Austria, Norge, Argentina, Scotland, Espagna, Portugal, Italia, Sverige, Peloponnesos, la Suisse, Wales, England, Bohemia, Morava, Ireland, Greece, Switzerland,... Trust people and they will surprise you... later in English y Italiano en Francais maintenant: poco in italiano: Ne sono sicuro: anche Antoine de Saint Exupery adorava il ciclismo: direbbe sicuramente: Puoi vedere bene solo dalla bici. L'essenziale rimane nascosto dalla macchina. Mi piace: Condividere storie di viaggi. Servas ha cambiato mia vita: Viaggiare presuppone vivere esperienze che ti lascino più di una esperienza e soprattutto esperienze reali e non posticce come per villaggi e anonimi mega hotel. Vivere a contatto con la gente del posto la realtà che si intende conoscere il modo sano e sostenibile per il viaggiatore del futuro.

CURRENT MISSION Monaco ABOUT ME i am 29 years old,- since a few years.. i like to go out with friends, but also beeing at home and enjoy the afterwork...