CURRENT MISSION

Only dead fish go with the flow

ABOUT ME

Building up a new life in Italy since September 2013. Working from home. Enjoying long walks in the hills of Bologna.

PHILOSOPHY

If you don't know where you're going, it's a lot harder to get lost..
OR to challenge authority (best definition of journalism according to Robert Fisk)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love to host people who share similar interests. I'm not Italian but I know Bologna and the region quite well by now. Would love to give directions. Stepping into someone's life is simply a great way to travel.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I only surfed two times and I went to places and discovered things I would never have seen by myself, far away from the tourists, it was just perfect.

Interests

Sugarfree biscuits, folding bikes, reading at least 3 different newspapers at the same time, running 10 km in the snow (oops sun), writing long e-mails full of nonsense, discussing politics, spoiling my friends with yummie food, playing the piano

• fish
• writing
• books
• performing arts
• dining
• running
• gardening
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• piano
• fishing
• swimming
• journalism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Into a lot of music, to give an idea: Arcade Fire, Bloc party, Jack Johnson, David Gray, José Gonzalez, Cat Power, Damien Rice, Erlend Oye, Beirut, Bon Iver, Afghan Wigs, Fleet Foxes, The Frames, Mark Eitzel, MGMT, Ryan Adams.. and sooo many others; Book of the moment: anything in Italian that is not too difficult ;-)
Movies: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Lars Von Trier, Mike Leigh, etc..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A sentence in a book that said it all, a performance that put things in perspective, a conversation or interview that should never have stopped, watching eyes that keep looking back, being on the road and not looking back, swimming in the garden of Eden

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, France, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Netherlands