To host: I love the idea of generous hospitality and, having been a stranded traveler lost in a strange city as night is falling before, I know just how valuable it is to receive that phone call at 10 o'clock at night saying someone will give you a bed. So let me be your 10 o'clock phone call. To travel: there is no better way to see a new country than through a local's eyes, and no better way of doing that than by couchsurfing.

Some films I like: Rubber, Calmos, Les Visiteurs, Pi, Fight Club. Some music I like: Infected Mushroom, Michael Franti & Spearhead, The King Blues, Sandi Thom, Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos. Some books I like: Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger; La Mort dans l'Ame by Jean-Paul Sartre; This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein; La Moustache and Le Royaume by Emmanuel Carrère.