I am a European of cosmopolitan outlook and have experience living, working and travelling intensively in Germany, the UK, Russia, Ukraine, the US, Croatia, Bosnia, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic states as well as much of Western, Southern and Central Europe.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I believe in exchange and people-to-people contacts, even if I am often too busy to be able to spend enough time with interesting people I meet.

Travelling and seeing more of Europe and the world should not be a privilege of only a few, but should be available for most, if not all people.

Interests

• politics
• history
• travel
• europe
• ukraine
• eastern europe
• international politics
• balkans
• european union

Music, Movies, and Books

Icke & Er, Tchaikovsky, Bob Marley

American Beauty, Captain Fantastic, Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit, Star Wars, Hotel Ruanda, Welcome to Sarajevo, Inglorious Basterds, Medicus, Apocalypto, Hitlerjunge Salomon, Blood Diamond, Im Juli, Dein Weg, Walk on Water, Hunt for Red October.

Cicero's De re publica (Republic), Victoria Clark's Why Angels Fall, Levada's Die Sowjetmenschen, Gogol Dead Souls, Tolkien' Lord of the Rings,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

German reunification, Germany football world champion twice in my life, European integration, fall of the Iron Curtain, living in Germany, the US, Russia, the UK and Croatia.

Great, good people make life great and good.

Teach, Learn, Share

Intercultural Competence

What I Can Share with Hosts

Life experience, communication in several languages

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, Germany, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States