Currently, I am trying to enjoy some multi-day cycling tours to explore my own surroundings, and to train for a trip to the Pyrenees in June. Unfortunately, I currently do not have enough space in my room to host anyone. In case you didn't notice, I am a big fan of quotes:) if you read them carefully, you might understand me better than if I would've described myself in my own words. I do not talk in quotes in real life :) (even though I have to admit that it would be awesome)

"Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win."
— Andrei Tarkovsky

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

"People only see what the spotlights show them. When they go home, they'll say they know Paris. Tomorrow, they'll go and see the Mona Lisa and claim they've visited the Louvre. But they don't know Paris and have never really been to the Louvre. All they did was go on a boat and look at a painting, one painting, instead of looking at a whole city and trying to find out what's happening in it, visiting the bars, going down streets that don't appear in any of the tourist guides, and getting lost in order to find themselves again. It's the difference between watching a porn movie and making love."
― Paulo Coelho

Interests

"We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature."
— Henry David Thoreau

• coffee
• gardening
• cycling
• camping
• psychology
• mountains
• art
• conversations
• the outdoors
• research
• ice cream
• bikepacking
• micro-adventures
• beginner yoga
• weird dark comedies

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
The Prophet, The Celestine Prophecy, Lost Horizon, The Snow Leopard, The Man Who Quit Money, The Alchemist, Tao Te Ching, The Zahir, etc.

Movies:
The Lobster, Men & Chicken, Victoria, Waiting For Godot, In A Better World, Fargo, Mandariinid, Caché, Adam's Apples, House Of The Flying Daggers, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

"When a mute person eats dumplings, he knows how many he has eaten, even though he cannot speak"
― Chinese proverb

Teach, Learn, Share

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”
― Paulo Coelho

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Germany