About me 🌱🌳
- Travelled all the way from Croatia to Bali in 2024/2025 trying to live and move like a local as much as realistically possible. I was really taken aback by the incredible hospitality and generosity of people and the lengths people went to make me feel welcome and their willingness to share their lives with me and hear about my experiences; This is the kind of energy I’d like to keep alive in CS.
- Ran over 10 marathons in different places in Scotland and got to experience some of the country’s most breathtaking scenery 🏔️💨
- Practiced yoga regularly for 11 years and have attended classes in about 15 countries given by something like 300 teachers
🕉️🪷With every year that passes I think yoga takes up an increasingly important chunk of my life and one day I hope to have the chance to share yoga with others in a meaningful way.
- I grew up in Africa and have lived in 5 countries. I pretty much live off of coffee and Nutella and hardly ever eat real food 🙊😬I love nature and animals 🐶.. travelling this last year I’ve come to realise that animal culture is a real thing and varies from place to place as much as human culture does.. (has anyone else observed this? if so, i’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences).

⚠️💬 Some disclaimers 📝
👥I use CouchSurfing to meet and spend time with other travellers and like minded people, not as a dating app. Please don’t send me a request if that is what you're here for 🕊️🙏
🔂🧑‍💻If you want to leave me a reference, please don’t use ChatGPT or some other LLM/AI to do so. It’s okay if English isn’t your first language-but I 100% prefer reading whatever you have to say—spelling, grammar and punctuation errors included—than some auto generated text.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Genuinely love sharing and making connections with people, and CouchSurfing is such an amazing app for bringing people together. I think at some point I realised that what I loved most about travelling was how it facilitates interactions with people from all different life paths.

Interests

• yoga
• medicine
• plants
• film
• exploring

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
- Everything disco + some techno music. Chic, ABBA, Jackson 5 and so much more I can't even list everything my brain will explode 🤯

Movies
- The Gentleman (such great dialogue. please make more films like this!!), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Uncut Gems, Le Daim, France, Life is Beautiful (and everything else with Roberto Benigni), Samsara (who knew silent films could be so great!?), Black Swan, Eyes wide shut, Les Intouchables (love Omar Sy), Harry, un ami que vous veut du bien.

Books
- Memoires of a Geisha, Martin Eden (and everything by Jack London), also everything Hemingway has every written, Dracula, Frankenstein, Bel-Ami, The Stranger, Brave New World, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Sapiens... just to list a few.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One summer I did work experience with a 'big-game vet' in the South African bush. The highlight of this experience was tracking a rhinoceros by helicopter which we had to dart to administer some treatment.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love meeting, hosting and staying with people and the cultural exchange that comes with it. I regularly take part in couchsurfing events in my city (this can be anything from weekly CSing meet-ups to cinema club events to hiking events to events on a particular theme like meeting, hosting and staying with people).

What I Can Share with Hosts

For people that use couchsurfing a lot, I think it tends to leave its mark on people and there's a certain kind of dynamic or archetype that a lot of the more experienced CSers have. So whether you're coming to stay with me or I'm going to stay at your place, there's this point of familiarity that we can expect from belonging to the same community and having a shared experience.

I'd love to share your company. To cook a tasty and wholesome salad or rice dish for you. And whether I'm your guest or your host, to adapt according to your wavelength and energy levels and to give space or spend time together accordingly

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Cambodia, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, Réunion, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, France, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, Zimbabwe