Gosh, I love this platform. There are so many interesting people here to learn from. I even got a Couchsurfing Tattoo on my arm🏄 Yep I might be a bit obsessed😅 When you feel comfortable, so do I. So please, feel at home when you come over, and let’s skip the small talk and act like we’ve known each other for years!
I am 55 years old, but I feel much younger. I am an optimistic positive thinking and creative person. My job is engineer for street planing, but in my heart I am an art person. Photography and acting are my passions. I am a photo artist (my website photoart.top) and I am acting in an improvisational theater group. I have travelled 81 countries and I collect cities – in Germany, Europe and the world. In Germany I was in 190 of the biggest 200 cities. I am interested in languages, playing tabletennis, football (fan), food, politics, psychology, art, and architecture. I like black humour and weird situations.
PLEASE NOTE: I am not interested in using CS as a chat room or a dating platform and I never accept friend requests from people who I have not met personally! For me CS is for meeting real people! COVID-19: Since all of us in the house are vaccinated I have started to host again. I am so happy that traveling is possible again and that we had some nice guests during the last weeks. 2016 my biggest dream has come true! I've been traveling Latin America January to May from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Met a lot of nice and open minded people on CS who hosted me, met up or helped with information on my way through Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Perú and Costa Rica. Back home I enjoy meeting travelers here and giving back hospitality. And I developed the habit of traveling about 2 months every year. Last year I spent 2 weeks on Tenerife and 4 weeks in the Mexico - then Corona forced me to go home and stay here. Last winter with the hard lockdown, all borders closed, cold and ugly weather and the regulation to open all classroom windows every 20 minutes was the hardest in my life and made us all pretty tough. But now I am going to retire by the end of the year and hope to be able to travel again soon. I am living with my husband in Darmstadt, Germany, about 30 km from Frankfurt/Main. Our two sons are grown up and have moved out . Now we are sharing our house with students from different parts of the world, enjoying cultural exchange in everyday life and laughing about all the little misunderstandings. I have been working many years as a social worker in a local prison until 2015 but then jumped out of the hamster wheel, quit the job, went traveling, did some qualifying and started to teach German which I enjoy very much since I have students from all over the world attending my classes. Inspired by my travel experiences I am trying out a lot of new things.
Hi! I live in Darmstadt, not Frankfurt! This app might have gone crazy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Привіт and hello! I'm Olia, just a traveler and plant lover. I speak Ukrainian and I LOVE this language. Please, don't switch to russian with me, and if you don't speak Ukrainian - English will be the best choice:) If you assume I can be a good guide, you are definitely right! Please, If you want to meet up, don't write "Kiev" (it's a mistake from russian transliteration). Kyiv - is correct! Have a great time in the capital of Ukraine!
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I am an open-minded person, always ready to explore new things and meet new people. Wherever I am, i will try to find a hiking tour, climb a hill and fetch a great view. You can host me, show me around, have a nice bbq or go for some drinks and party. I am 30 years, studied physics in Darmstadt and achieved PhD in 2018. I am interested in finding friends in foreign countries all over the world, who might visit Germany one day giving me a chance to show my little world to them. I am uncomplicated concerning food, drinks or funny or strange activities, everything has to be tested :-) I can host you in my living room, try to show your around a bit and maybe on the weekend make a nice day trip.
CURRENT MISSION Living young and wild and free! ABOUT ME I grew in a tiny town in Germany. Too small for someone who wants to see the world. I lived 1 year in the USA as an AuPair and was traveling across Australia for 6 month. It was one of the best experience in my life. Rightnow I try to travel when I have the opportunity and learn about different countries and cultures and get to know the people. I JUST LOVE THE WORLD with all the different beautiful places. I am honest, easygoing and openminded. I like to laugh and have a good time. I enjoy meeting people and learn something from them. I love the beach and nature. I´m dreaming about a world without war, conflicts and visas! PHILOSOPHY getting to know as many countries and people in the world as possible and having more time to enjoy and really see the world with all the beauty it has.
hello world , my real name is Milan , Bata Barata is just a funny nickname :) ... i was born in Belgrade 1986 , in one wonderful country that used to be called Yugoslavia. I am working in aviation industry in Frankfurt, Germany as a NDT inspector (if you ever want to know what is it, i can explain) ... like everybody else in this website i like to travel , meet new people , cultures and languages ... in spare time i like to play bass guitar , sports (just to watch) , i like to go fishing , to read about geography and history ... i can always offer to bring souvenirs such as magnets , shirts , sweets, candies, keychains etc ... im very choosey about who will stay at my place. I believe the idea of this website is to make new friends , share some laughs and have a good time together. If you are looking for a free hotel , this is not the couch for you , so let me know why you choose me and your plans :-)
Hey everyone out there! I grew up in the beautiful city of Bonn and I'm now studying medicine in Jena. Big surprise: I really love traveling! I think it's a great way to find out what place you want to have in the world and what kind of change you want to see in it. I love being outside and I prefer nature to big cities.
CURRENT MISSION Viva la Felicita ! --Signor Rossi ABOUT ME Funny! PHILOSOPHY The world is my country, science is my religion. Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho!
CURRENT MISSION There are 53 flags on my backpack and counting... ABOUT ME Insta @therealturtlecrusher I think I have been around for to long now that is not possible to put everything into words but one can try : Born in Monterrey capital of the Great Kingdom of Nuevo Leon. Due to my father’s job I moved around the country, from north to south we changed cities every 3-4 years. At the Age of 12 I remember hearing from a guy about his one year overseas experience, working for an institution and all the things he learned in that one year, my father looked at me and told me that I should think like that guy so in a future I could see the world. It was the year 2003 when I was sent to live in Canada to learn English however it was not until 4 years later while in university I got bored of a normal life of studies that decided to apply for a volunteering position, and in the summer of 2007 I moved to Denmark for a year. After that amazing year full of awesomeness, great friendships and backpacking around Europe i had to go back and finish my University Degree (Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering). The year was 2011 and I graduated without knowing what to do next. Between traveling in the United States and trying to make my own company and failing at it a full year passed but in the summer of 2012 an opportunity came along and I started working as the new IT Support Engineer in a Hospital. 7 months after I started working in the Hospital a friend from Denmark came to visit and reminded me how much I missed Europe so started to look for new job opportunities there. Few months later i was accepted to work in a University, so in the summer 2013 I moved to Germany. I spent there 2 Years learning new things, making new friends and falling for Eastern Europe Countries like Poland. After that time i had to go back to the motherland but not before making my way back through Dubai and Tokyo. It was October 2014 and after a long time i was back at my parents house trying to figure out where i would go next. The call came from my hometown Monterrey where i got a 6 months contract working for a Telecommunications company. April of 2015 and my contract ended so I went to my visit my parents in the deep south of Mexico. Just a few weeks after I arrived there a German friend let me know about a good job opportunity in the university he was studying so quickly I started with the application process. August 2015, I got the job and I moved to Beirut where I spent 1.5 Years working as the IT Director of a University. During this time I learned a lot about the Middle East and the Culture around it. In December 2016 i went for the holidays to Mexico to spent after 5 years Xmas with my Family and after this i moved to Germany to work on some personal projects where i spent the next couple of months visiting old friends. In the summer of 2017 i got a new job, this time in Africa, in the country of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) where i spent 2.5 years working and traveling around west Africa. Since 2019 i'm back in Germany where i work and live. Im a simple guy with an open mind that likes to make new friends, to travel, get to know different cultures and i could go on writing like crazy hahah, but if you ever meet me and you like to hear stories, im 100% sure you wont get bored haha. PHILOSOPHY One Language is Not Enough, One Country is Not Enough, One Life is Not Enough
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