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Overview

  • 114 references 101 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Spanish
  • 30, Male
  • Member since 2019
  • Student
  • Engineering
  • From Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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About Me

** for hosting in Granada, read updated home section **

I like meeting people from all around the world. I'm very spontaneous and adventurous - always in for a trip to somewhere or into nowhere :D I'm a calm and curious person who always likes to get to know new people and have conversations :)

I'm traveling now since 2022 with some stops at home to see friends and family again. First trip was all the way through Spain to Morocco and around the coast of Porto. Next one all the way from Germany through the Balkans and everything in between to turkey. I have many stories from these trips, found amazing places, met great people and many friends with couchsurfing. I'm curious about your travelstories, plans and ideas! My next big trips hopefully go to South east asia and Latin America :)

I would like to try all the different ways of traveling. Hitchhiking together. I did wildcamping some times, would be cool to do different trips with a group of travelers, camping together, renting a van or try Bikepacking! A dream would be to join a sailing crew to go boat hitchhiking :D I travel without plane and I want to experience the journey, distances and everything in between.

Besides calm things like some talking together, walking through the area, having a drink together, I'm also always in for swimming, hiking, all kind of watersports and outdoor activities.

If there is a host, it would be nice for me to stay but I also like just to meet, get to know each other and exchange stories

If someone likes to join a part of traveling - let's go together, you're welcome!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to become friends with people all over the world. I want to know what the everyday life is at different places and to connect more with the area and the people living there. It's very interesting for me to exchange experiences with locals or other travellers from all over the world.

Interests

  • animals
  • wildlife
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • cliff jumping
  • sports
  • swimming
  • nature
  • longboarding
  • activism
  • meeting new people
  • cultural exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Avatar, Into the Wild, Documentaries about Traveling and Nature, Skins, In time, Tribute von Panem, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Der Schwarm by Frank Schätzing, Eragon, The Joker, Linkin Park, Pendulum, Rise Against

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meeting someone in the evening via couchsurfing who spontaneously joined me the next day to go camping together at Costa Brava and to travel down the coast together for 10 days! You never know which good things can happen just the next day or in next moment :)

Sleeping alone at the beach at the Amalfi coast in Italy with just beachday equipment to see the sunset there and to discover the area in the morning without tourists.

Surfing in Spain and Portugal, Cliffdiving in Croatia, seeing the big waves at the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, falling asleep in the bus and waking up at the sea, Freediving at Kap Kamenjak, Seeing a volcano, hiking through Europes longest Canyon, seeing a sea turtle, cuttlefish and a rey while freediving in the Mediterranean sea

Teach, Learn, Share

I love longboarding under the palm trees along the coast! if you like, I could teach you :) or in summer how to go waterskiing or wakeboarding on a lake! If you like to learn german, I could help you with that too :D

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories and ideas for slow traveling in a different way without plane

Teaching what I know - German, longboarding for example

I can help with everyday tasks so we would have more free time together! Like doing the dishes, getting groceries, vacuuming the rooms while you're at work

See your area with different eyes - we can find something new :)

Being a outdoor-activities or sports buddy

Deep talks about environmental topics, activism, climate change, renewable Energies, Solar, permaculture, nature - Utopías

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Spain

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