I simply love travelling . I am a passionate hitchhiker and backpacker with an interest in exploring new places, meeting new people and learning about their lives and culture. My goal is to travel as much as my studies and my budget afford. And somehow, it still kind of keeps me mainly in the souteastern and eastern direction...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I believe that the best way how a traveller can learn about foreign lands is to interact with locals. That is, to chat with them and raise and then enjoy the heated discussions about both similarities and differences between cultures, regimes or people's attitutes.

I want to learn what the locals like, what are their habbits, how they think and how they live, what are their interests and what they think is worth seeing in their homeland. And can you do this in a hotel or find it in an issue of LonelyPlanet? Answer yourself..;)

Interests

Travelling - currently my passion are the countries of Caucasus, Central Asia, Southeastern Europe and Latin America. My dream, a few months in Canada, still remains unreached though.
Sports - hiking (especially in the mountains), skiing, voleyball, handball, ice hockey (the latter only passively, however a loooot)
Music - drums
Film
Geography (yes, I actually am a total map geek)
Global issues & politics
Writing - no novels though. I rather enjoy writing reports, news and various articles.

• writing
• walking
• politics
• news
• traveling
• music
• drums
• hiking
• backpacking
• skiing
• sports
• hockey
• handball
• geography
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - there is just a few styles for which I would have an absolute 'NO'.
I enjoy all kinds of music as it is always a matter of mood, situation and yeah, even some epoch. I like rock, classic rock, progressive and alternative as well as dub, shoegaze, electro or psytrance... and that is not all for sure :)
However, there are some pieces that will never get old. Keeping that in mind, I say Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins.

As for movies, I enjoy especially the classic gangster movies, westerns and James Bond movies. But I can also very much appreciate a good thriller, comedy or drama.
Directors: Sergio Leone, Sidney Lumet, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Al Pacino, Al Pacino, Al Pacino, Christoph Waltz, Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel Lee Jackson

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking in the Andes. Hiking to the bottom of Grand Canyon.
Walking through the Amazon rain forest.
Hitchhiking through Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and the Balkan's.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Many experience from various parts fo the world. My own curiosity about differences between places, people and their cultures. Time while going on my beloved walks around strange and less-known non-touristic places.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Réunion, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Czech Republic