I am a solo female traveler from Amersfoort, The Netherlands🇳🇱 Although I created a couchsurfing profile several years ago I just recently purchased a subscription for one year. That is why I still don’t have any reviews or experience with couchsurfing (but ofcourse I hope to gain couchsurfing experience soon). My name is Laura van Beek and I am 25 years old. I recently have finished my 2 master’s degrees at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: accounting & control and fiscal law. During the past 5 years I have tried to find some balance between studying, working and traveling. I have visited my 50th country (Belarus) in April this year, it is my goal to visit all 51 countries in Europe before my 30th birthday (right now I have visited 40/51). I have planned to travel fulltime in the next few months before I start with my first fulltime ‘adult’ job at February 1 2026. In the future I hope to combine my career in accounting and/or tax with traveling. When I was younger, I mainly went camping in Western Europe with my parents and sister, but we also went to Africa and the Middle East a few times. When I started solo traveling, I developed my interest in Eastern-Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union (I have already visited 12/15 Post Soviet countries). This is partly because I found history a very interesting subject in high school. Fun fact: As you can see, there's a white cat sitting with me on my profile picture. His name is Habibi and I have adopted him from Jordan.