ABOUT ME

Hi, my name is Marlies and Im from the Netherlands. I love to travel whenever I can and get to know other people and their cultures. Right now due to work i havent got a lot of opportunity to go travel, but im open for hosting and meeting up with people.

PHILOSOPHY

enjoy the small things in life, and do whatever do want to do..why wait??

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just spend two years in the US where I met up with people thanks to couch surfing and now im back in the Netherland I want to participate more by open my home for fellow travellers and meet up to show them my country.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I mostly used this website to meet up with other travellers.

兴趣

Love to travel and get to know different cultures. South and Central America are my favourite places in the world and Im trying to learn Spanish to be able to communicate with the people who are living there.
beside traveling i love going to concerts or festivals, being outdoors hiking/biking/swimming/camping, and lots more

• culture
• concerts
• festivals
• cooking
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• swimming

音乐、电影和书籍

Mumford and sons, the Who, Ben Howard, ( or just a good live band in a bar)
Legends of the Fall
Historical novels

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Life in general is pretty amazing, i cannot choose one experience, but here is a couple:

- worked on a cattle station in Australia
- traveling solo through El Salvador, feeling like the only foreigner.
- hiking Acatenango in Guatemala and saw a volcano erupt 6 times from our campsite.

教，学，和分享

I would like to get fluent in spanish, I could teach anything to do with the dutch culture (language, cooking, customs etc).

我游览过的国家

Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

Australia, Netherlands, United States