“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

My idea of travelling around the world has been shaped by 19th/20th century explorers, writers and anthropologists such as John Lloyd Stevens & Frederick Catherwood ("discoverers" of the Maya Pyramids in 1841), Claude-Lévi Strauss, Alexandra David-Néel and many others.

The ingredients of my ideal voyage are: discovery, facing challenging situations, cultural shock and cultural immersion, meeting and talking to as many locals (but also other travellers) as possible.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

As a guest: to try a different way of travelling: discovering a country not through a guide book from a hotel window, but through the eyes of the natives from the heart of their home!

As a host: to return the favour, and to meet travellers from all four corners of the world with their own story to tell.

Interessen

The most important thing is to stay curious and open to try new things in life: you never know where a path may lead you!

• humanities
• martial arts
• anthropology
• languages
• travelling
• latin america
• ethnology
• music (listening and playing)
• archaelogoy
• precolumbian civilisations
• maya archaelogy

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Authors : Haruki Murakami, Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness), Paul Auster, Andrei Guelassimov, Evgenij Grishkovets, Victor Hugo, Mircea Eliade, Julio Cortazar, Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges...

Music : Radiohead, Muse, Deftones, Zemfira, The Last Shadow Puppets, Placebo, Arcade Fire...

Cinema: Hayao Miyazaki + Studio Ghibli animation, Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds), Tim Burton (Big Fish, etc.), Le Nom des Gens (Michel Leclerc), La Nouvelle Vague films (les 400 Coups, Le Boucher, A bout de souffle..), Alejandro Iñárritu (Babel, Amores Perros)...

The list goes on and on. ;) Kind of hard to sum up 26 years of changing tastes in a few lines.

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Sharing 9 months of my life with an indigenous Maya Qeqch'i community in the heart of the Guatemalan jungle.

Was ich mit Gastgebern teilen kann

Laughs, beers and curiosity towards their culture ;)

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Cuba, France, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

France, Guatemala, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom