We are a couple full of energy that wish to know more about this vast world 🌍 We love to know different perspectives and share cultures.

NOTE: Right now its just me (Afonso) living during the week in Figueira da Foz. Recently moved to this amazing city by the sea.
We do not accept requests with more than 10 days in advance.
2 nights stays are OK.
PLEASE: read my house part

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

-We love deep conversations and share of different opinions and perspectives, politics, religion, philosophy, cultural shock...

Intereses

• culture
• politics
• reading
• hiking
• camping
• sports
• geography
• geopolitics
• history
• religion
• nature
• nature walks
• vanlife

Música, películas y libros

Music:
-Helena is that kind of person that listen all kind of music (Oh that´s what everyone says to please the public...You´r thinking) Really! She likes almost everything!
-Afonso is more specific and loves hip-hop and afrobeats, but is also capable to listen many diferent kinds of music.
-We both love portuguese and brasilian music: Zeca Afonso, Seu Jorge, Milton Nascimento, Natiruts.
-Some Reaggae is also welcome! Bob and Damian Marley, Gentleman, Matysiahu, Chronixx.
-If Trance Music starts to sound we immediately start to stomp our feet (Mandragora and Vini Vici 🤟🏼)
-We love to sit on a chair at the sun and just listen Lofi-chill HipHop/Jazz sounds!

Movies:
-Interstellar; Dallas Buyers Club! Matthew Mcconaughey is the man!
-The Platform (El Hoyo); The Arrival; Django; La Vita è Bella; Cidade de Deus.

Books:
-literature in portuguese: José Saramago, Mia Couto, Pepetela, Paulo Coelho.
-Franz Kafka, Tolstoi, Yuval Noah Harari, George Orwell...
-The Grapes of Wrath from Steinbeck!

Algo increíble que he hecho

We are 2 fresh geography teachers that share the ambition of making a difference in our students trough education.
We met each other in university and realised that we share a lot of common prespectives about life...got together since than... that´s one of the amazing things We´ve done :)
Beside that, Afonso went to the Olympic Games in Tokyo and he is trying to quality for the next ones.

Enseña, aprende, comparte

-The main deal is no more no less than our will to know diferent people and share with them a piece of our beautiful country.
-Beside that and our couch, we also can share with you a good chat and a good portuguese meal :)
We are 2 Geography teachers and love it!
Afonso is a professional rower of the portuguese federation. He´s also a bit nerd in geography and usted to know all the capital citys of the world (not anymore... but he still knows some of them)!

Países que he visitado

Austria, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Países en los que he vivido

Portugal