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Overview

  • 40 references 36 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Esperanto, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish; learning Estonian, Icelandic, Polish
  • 59, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • translator
  • University ELTE
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Father of three adult kids, owned by adult cat, translator (for the EU, and, occasionally, literary), previously teacher, journalist, slaughterhouse worker.
Recently married.
This might have an incidence on my availability, as my life now partly happens in Estonia, where I cannot host.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have been doing this since 1986, though first in the disguise of the Esperanto-speaking hosting community Pasporta Servo. (Which I still do too.)
Meeting literally hundreds of people in my home during all these years has enriched me so much that I cannot imagine my life otherwise. Many of these people are friends to this day.

Music, Movies, and Books

Madrugada
Der Himmel über Berlin
La Infana Raso

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

amazed myself by
- starting to run;
- taking tango lessons.
These are two things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Estonia, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland

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