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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning German
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2018
  • Structural Engineer
  • B.Eng., M.A.Sc. McMaster University, Canada
  • From Ontario, Canada
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About Me

This is Mike and Alex(andra)'s Couchsurfing account. We are Canadian, and Mike has Hungarian background through his grandparents. We have been living and working in the UK since mid-2016 -- in the wonderful city of Cambridge. We lived in Canada before that, meeting at Uni in Hamilton, Ontario, but Alex was raised in Ottawa, and Mike in Brantford.

Mike studied and is working in structural engineering; and Alex studied and is working in the history and heritage sector.

Aside from our obvious mother tongue, Mike has the basics of German down, and Alex is fluent in French as well as English.

We are keen on tech-y and historic topics and experiences and events, so Cambridge is an extremely exciting place for us -- see "What We Can Share" below.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Friends have been doing Couchsurfing for a while, and we've been hosting friends from all over (Canada and rest of Europe) for a couple years.

Some recent feedback, from avid Couchsurfer-friends, is that we have the Couchsurfing spirit down as hosts; and our AirBNB experiences / reviews support the fact that we are highly respectful guests, in private homes/rooms or shared accommodations. Couchsurfing is just another tool we want to add to our collection, for our future adventures.

Interests

  • beer
  • cycling
  • engineering
  • history
  • adventure travel
  • programming
  • vegetarian cooking
  • vegan cooking
  • cooking and eating
  • history and culture

Music, Movies, and Books

Our favourite music has become "Whatever Spotify curates". We're pretty bad at music rounds of pub quizzes anymore...

We're not shy of independent or foreign language films. We're rather fond of lots of stuff the BBC produces, for some reason.

Alex moves through books pretty quickly too, whilst knitting wonderfully warm things! Multi-tasking at its finest.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Moved from Ontario, Canada to Cambridge, UK, and made a success of it for more than 2 years (as of September 2018).

What I Can Share with Hosts

We're fond of cooking, and keen to learn to use a very wide range of foods. Happy to do vegetarian / vegan dishes!

We will share respect for your space, and friendly conversation.

We have a well above average idea of what's happening in Cambridge. That's not to say we know everything that's happening! But we can generally generate 4 or 5 non-touristy ideas for things to do in town.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United Kingdom

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