CURRENT MISSION

To visit the remaining 160+ countries

ABOUT ME

A simple guy (or at least, trying to be), with a passion for traveling and a positive mindset. Hate sitting at home, but ironically doing just that most of the time (I'm a web developer). I consider the whole world to be my home, and my mission is to visit every part of it before I kick the bucket :)

PHILOSOPHY

Don't do harm - to other people, other species or the environment. This is my main guiding principle.

I have a very particular attitude to tourism, that some might consider strange or even arrogant. Usually I'm not very interested in famous sights (churches, museums, monuments, historic places) - not that I specifically try to avoid them, I just don't like the idea of crossing 'things to see' off a checklist. I rather prefer 'discovering' things myself - and most of the time they wouldn't even be very interesting to anyone else. I do like history, but somehow historical significance of the place fails to add much to how I perceive it. A simple city street or a park have as much chance to excite me as the Buckingham palace or the Reichstag...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting and surfing :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In progress...

Interests

Favorite activities: finding myself in the middle of nowhere with only a backpack and no certain plans, climbing whatever hill or mountain I can find, walking long trails, riding my bike until I get tired and hungry, sitting on an empty beach at sunset, riding the waves and snowy slopes on a board, walking barefoot, listening to music.

• beauty
• environment
• walking
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• backpacking
• surfing
• rock climbing
• track and field
• history
• tourism
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Fountain, Memento, The Lord Of The Rings, Donnie Darko, Amelie, American Beauty, Baraka, Into The Wild, Futurama, Monty Python.

Music: rock and metal, mostly. Favorite bands: Evergrey, Nightwish, Iron Maiden, Anathema, Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode.

Favorite authors: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. Simak, I. Asimov, D. Adams, R. Dawkins.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled overland from Finland to Hong Kong - took only 2 months :)
Climbed a mountain in Norway at night.
Walked a 90km track (among 5 other shorter ones) and surfed in New Zealand.
Witnessed the beauty of Kamchatka.

visited 37 states (16.4%)Create your own visited map of The World

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Estonia, Finland, Russian Federation

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