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Overview
About Me
58 ans, deux enfants, l'une vivant à Singapour, l'autre à Paris. Dix ans d'expatriation en Chine, dont deux ans de travail avec des membres du parti communiste chinois, J'ai été journaliste, businesman, designer, conférencier. J'ai fait le tour du monde.
Ma soif d'apprendre est inextinguible. Du coup, je suis très cultivé. J'aime bien les gens et les contacts? Que dire d'autre ?
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
Je veux m'installer à Lyon, chercher du boulot et un appartement. Dépannage quelques jours ou quelques semaines.
Interests
- politics
- painting
- music
- archeology
- mathematics
- philosophy
- physics
- art
- sciences
- sculpture
- modelling
- archeologie expérimentale
- flint knapping
Music, Movies, and Books
Books: so many
Le Geb (Gödel Escher Bach)
Le hasard et la Necessité
Buddhist texts
Le monde comme volonté et comme représentation
Music: world music, funk, asian traditionakl music, jazz
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Walking several days with 1 tin of canned food for two, and at the end no water, in the narrow and deep funnels carved in the limestone mass by wind and water through, creeping our way in constant fear of a sudden flashflood that would catch us in a straight with unclimbable walls on each side. We finally reached the Golden Arch by the Lake Powell, where a ranger tried to engage conversation. We ducked off as we had no license by the Indian bureau -
I have also crossed the Sahara up and down with a 2 CV that was a dog pen when we bought it. The car frame broke soon after we entered the desert. We fixed it with pieces of metal from a wreck nearby, ropes, and even a neolithic stone grinder. We made it back to France and won our challenge !
Teach, Learn, Share
English, French, Chinese, electricity, flint knapping, mathematics, building energy efficiency.
What I Can Share with Hosts
I am a grat story teller with many tales to tale and a lot of knowledge to share.
Countries I’ve Visited
Algeria, Andorra, Australia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Canada, China, England, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Spain, Togo, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan