CURRENT MISSION

Grow and show a good example to the kids (2010) Get coached and grow my business now that the kids are about Grown (2025) so I can sell it at some point and retire not too late.

ABOUT ME

I am married and father of 4 (They are 26, 23, 20 and 17).

Always looking at the positive side of things which has brought me lots of luck so far.

15 Years ago I created Costume Carbone, a small fashion brand for mens who love cars and racing. It has mostly sold on racing tracks, and since 2013 revenues mostly come from corporate orders, no B2C anymore.

Having a passion for biking (BMX in the 80's and MTB now) and Rock climbing, I now run quite a lot in the woods and do some short/medium trails over the winter. I listen to music a lot, and when time allows love reading, and cooking.

PHILOSOPHY
Make anytime a good time! always be optimistic! the best is to come.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I participate via sharing my personnal experiences of everything from travel to sport through personnal relationship and growing kids.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Because I experienced it back in 1996 in Vancouver BC!
I invited Steffi from Germany to share the wooden floor (that's all I had aside of my own sleeping bag! ) of my little apparment for a couple of nights. This was really in the spirit of helping and sharing experiences, and we talked for hours and she remained a great friend from then and came to my wedding in '97, and for a short Paris visit at our place 7/8 years ago. I will be in Oslo with my wife next April to visit N°3 son doing a student exchange, and will pay a visit to Steffi and family too for sure.
That was woodenfloorsurfing at the time, long before social networks!
In 2010, I surfed 10 days at Steve Weiner's place in NY while I was pursuing Fashion courses at FIT, great host, great time! I will never be thankfull enough to Steve for his warm welcome.

Interests

Dirt bikes (without engine), Running/trail, Rock Climbing, Kids, House architecture and interior design, fashion, sports, sportwear, Cuisine, Wines.....

• architecture
• design
• interior design
• fashion
• cooking
• marathon
• running
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• music
• cycling
• skiing
• snowboarding
• sports
• rock climbing
• entrepreneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

U2, The Doors, The Beatles, "French poets" (Brassens, Ferrat, Delerm, Benabar, Gainsbourg, Brassens, Renaud, La Grande Sophie....) Keren Ann, Nick Cave, Pulp, Hard Fi,.....and many others.
Pixar's, Star Wars, Little miss sunshine, shanes black Kiss kiss bang bang,Funny Woody Allen's, Lord of the ring
Writers I love: G.Garcia Marquez, I.Allende, M.Connely, K.Follet, H.Coben, J.Irving, M.Kundera, Jonas Jonasson...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One is not enough,
Sold my homemade Apple Tarts in the streets of Vancouver, BC for a living
I ran Paris Half Marathon in 1h35 in 2004
Was in the semi final of the BMX World Champ in 2005 at 36yo...and screwed my start, Damn it!
Did climb some nice cliffs in France, it's fairly easy with a decent training, and the experience is great!
I also sky dived long time ago in the french army, no word!
lately finished a 48km/2100d+ muddy trail in "my" forest.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give french conversation time with great pleasure, I'd love to share my experiences, in sport (BMX, MTB, climbing, Running, Skiing, snowboarding) but also work (extended Sport Apparel product and sales experience + entrepreneurship) and growing kids!
Learn ? anything new !

What I Can Share with Hosts

Talks, Cooking and Drinking!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France

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