CURRENT MISSION

To become journalists! Our world tour around rivers (see below) gave us the idea to go back to school in order to learn journalism.
Otherwise, we always enjoy meeting people, enjoying life and traveling.

ABOUT ME

We are a couple living in Paris.
We travelled over the world during one year, from Sept 13 to August 14. Our project, called "the grand detour", was a rivers world tour. The goal was to realize a photo report on river' issues. This project is still living! Since we are in France and back to our boring jobs, we did several talks and exhibitions about rivers. We love rivers! Our website is : www.ungranddetour.fr (in English too).
Now, we are currently passing exams to join a journalism school.

Open-minded, we want to meet people, discover new places.

We are quite quiet, love watching movies in theatre, exhibitions, but also spend time with friends in Paris' bars. Above all, we love traveling!

2015 trips : Tunisia, Senegal, Alaska
2016 trips : Macedonia, and soon Georgia (only Marine)

PHILOSOPHY

Life is short, and we decided to live ! We stopped our jobs for one year and would like to do it again as soon as possible to travel again and again. And discover our wonderful planet.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We hosted somes people in Paris, it was each time a wonderful experience with a lot of discussions :) Unfortunately our current place is not suitable for hosting.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A lot of experiences around the world, all positive :)

Interests

First, journalism ad trips!
And also movies (a lot), exhibitions, photography, books, squash, swimming...

• books
• photography
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• racquetball
• swimming
• journalism
• rivers
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Books : The blue road by Kenneth White. It is a beautiful poetic diary which tell the K. White's trip from Montreal to the Labrador.
Extract :
"Piers, promontories, headlands.
I stood out at the end of the pier watching the gulls.
The white dance !
"€œWhat is chaoticism, Mr White ?"
That need for words that energize and space out.
The leap into another logic.
Eroto-cosmology.
I was drunk with the wind. Drunk with the great white rumour of the St Lawrence.
Drunk with ideas.
Ideas like fish and gulls. "€œSwimming thinking, winged thinking."
Oceanic philosophy.
Why write ? So as not to go completely crazy with that kind of drunkenness. That white drunkenness that is the source of all real writing."

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

traveling during a whole year!

Teach, Learn, Share

We enjoy learning new things...

I, Laurent, has some skills in photography.
I, Marine, needs to learn English.

What I Can Share with Hosts

We are good cooks ;-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Israel, Laos, Macedonia, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Peru, Russian Federation, Scotland, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France