CURRENT MISSION

to share and discover cultural knowledges and different ways of life

ABOUT ME

Before we met, my wife Muriel and I used to travel extensively in remote areas and loved meeting people from the country, experiencing and sharing a part of their life. Whereas she always traveled mostly with friends, I almost always traveled alone. We have now two children, one little girl of l6 months old and a 3 years old boy. We still travel with them although a little bit differently! With them we went to Japan, Bulgaria, Italy, Baleares islands...

We are both 37 years old. I'm also a white water river guide.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Never experienced the couchsurfing using couchsurfing.com, but we used to be members of the organization "Servas", an "old-fashioned paper version" of couchsurfing.com. Through this organization we couchsurfed in Bulgaria and Japan.

Interests

Didier: litterature, Central-Asian art, geopolitics and foreign studies, travel articles writing, video and movie making (my movies "trekking in Afghan Pamir" and "how to travel with a baby in Japan" were shown in several movie festivals), cooking.

Muriel: photography, litterature, world music. Organize once a month a "nature and culture" walk around Paris. Loves to organize events for groups of friends.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• photography
• festivals
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• world music
• kayaking
• geopolitics
• tourism

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

To travel in Afghanistan. Jump in kayak a 12 meter high waterfall. To see my wife give birth at home in our bedroom.

Being for the first time in a Buddhist temple in Ladakh, north India, and feel like I had already been there. A terrific impression of "deja vu"...

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, Niger, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

France