My name is Dag and I am a student-cum-sailor. I joined up on my brother's boat in Tahiti in May 2013 and sailed from there to New Zealand, and from New Zealand to India (see http://www.seaventure.net/). In March 2015, we set off from India towards South Africa. My journey (for this time) will end in July 2015. I am a low-budget traveller who like to experience my travelling as authentically as possible. I don't believe you need a whole lot of money to do that. With a curious mind and a versatile attitude I believe that travelling is best on improvisation and with a minimum of things holding you down.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

All throughout my travels and have learned an amenable attitude as a guest. I always prefer having someone on 'the inside', someone who knows the city or the village and who can explain to me the local customs and where life is good. Couchsurfing to me is the ultimate opportunity to see new places and find new friends to explain to me the place which I am visiting. When I get established somewhere I will also use Couchsurfing as a medium to repay humanity for all the hospitality it has shown me by hosting people in my city.

Interests

My interests are cultural. I enjoy sitting in a bamboo house drinking tea with villagers and observing their daily life. I like to hear what issues are on their mind, how they perceive the world and to learn their practices. While studying, I also like to analyze culture and write about it through theoretical litterature.
As a traveller, I like movement and the freedom which comes with it. While travelling alone I am completely free to do what I want. Every day is a new adventure. Waking up in the morning, there is no saying what will happen throughout the day.
I enjoy sailing, with a soft breeze and clear view. And I enjoy farming, as long as it is ecological and sustainable. I enjoy producing, creating or somehow learning new things, however strange or novel the task.
I am curious about all religion and lifeviews. My religion is all-encompassing, compromising Christianity and Buddhism.
I dig nature, and I'd like to feel in harmony with it. Gardening and ecological farming are interests of mine.
I like scuba diving and have dived all along the Pacific and Indian Ocean wherever we have gone with the boat.

• culture
• books
• cooking
• drinking
• gardening
• boating
• traveling
• scuba diving
• sailing
• christian
• buddhist
• religion
• budget travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Radiohead, Placebo, Smashing Pumpkins, Kent, Florence and the Machine, Alt-J, The XX, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd.
Movies: Fight Club, American History X, Man on Fire, The Road, Atonement, A Place Beyond the Pine Trees.
Books: Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts, 1984 - George Orwell, Demian - Herman Hesse, The Alchemist -Paolo Coehlo, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Kampala, the 5 million capital of Uganda for a year and indulged in the anarchic hedonism of Africans. This was not one climactic moment as most travellers focus on. This was a lifestyle with a series of amazing moments.

What I Can Share with Hosts

All I can offer is myself, an attentative man with a listening ear. I can offer insight from my own country and from my travelling. In addition, I am handy with carpentry and cooking. I can offer helpings of any kind.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cook Islands, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Germany, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tonga, Vanuatu

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, Uganda