ABOUT ME

I'm rather shy and quiet. But I really enjoy traveling (especially alone as this gives me a greater chance to meet others and reflect on my impressions and experiences), meeting new people, seeing new things. I'm laidback, open to new outlooks and experiences, a good listener...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've just joined so I can't really say . . . I think this is a great way to meet others, share experiences and adventures, travel . . . expose oneself to a wider variety of lifestyles and perspectives. . . and I look forward to participating in it.

Interests

music, reading, writing, going to concerts and movies, having new experiences, meeting new people

• writing
• concerts
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• spelunking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Guy Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain and Careful; anything directed by Jim Jarmusch or Wes Anderson; Let the Right One In; Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo and Jeder fuer sich und Gott gegen alle; the new Met production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann . . . many more
Favorite Composers (at the moment): Mahler, Verdi, Benjamin Britten, Schubert
Favorite Authors: Proust and Dostoevsky

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

seeing a series of contemporary one act operas staged in an old factory in Vienna
more recently: spelunking in Budapest