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About Me
Hello, you! We should definitely meet up, we'll certainly get along ... or perhaps hate one-another, but we won't find out if you don't write ;)
But first, you want to know who is behind this profile? Alright.
Relaxed and discreet but easy to talk to,
Occasionally funny, preferably in a dark way,
Creative, determined, passionate guy from the French Alps,
Organized backpacker but not afraid of the unknown,
Mostly vegetarian,
Dancing somewhere between science and arts, alternative stuff and business.
I couldn't bear school, stopped it early and opened my company when I was 16.
Still working hard for my upcoming life of freedom.
My business is related to « ant farms » that I design and sell so you can observe the world of a real ant colony trough the glass. Lots of passionate love that, and schools too. Cool, isn't it?
After developing my company a little more, I'll try to catch the chance to live in different countries and learn plenty of new languages, enrich myself with diverse cultures and knowledge. Some of the many things that can catch my interest are languages and cultures (such as Finnish, Norwegian, Saami, Greenlandic, English, German...), cooking and health, music, shiatsu and martial arts, mathematics, horseback riding, agriculture and sustainable ways of living etc. Anything I can learn looks interesting to me.
Or perhaps I'll just enjoy years of solitude in the middle of a beautiful landscape.
I love music, the culture and style that's around it, the festivals and everything. I listen to old school heavy metal, Gothic rock, Darkwave, etc. I've been to a couple if awesome festivals and usually have some music on.
Interested in healthy diets and quite passionate about making pastry (even though I'm the most unhealthy thing ever !). The French culture is something I like to bathe in and share : languages, food, architecture, mindsets etc.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
- I won't give you a massage if you don't ask for it,
- You don't have to sleep in my bed,
- I won't take you to creepy places,
- I don't wander naked in the kitchen
People who do that surely make CouchSurfing unforgettable but I want you to feel home at my place, and comfortable while hosting me :D
In fact, CouchSurfing has become my lifestyle, I would never travel without CouchSurfing again! Sometimes, I decide to take a detour especially to meet CouchSurfers and new places. I've met wonderful people thanks to this network and I try to bring a good experience to those who host me. I may leave a jar of caramel paste or a macaron cake behind me if you host me though...
I can't host in very comfortable conditions and I receive very few requests where I live but that's a start. So usually, I surf more than I host.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Plenty of amazing hosts received me, I had some great guests as well, made many friends, did several meetings and would never travel without CouchSurfing again :)
Interests
- arts
- culture
- architecture
- design
- beauty
- festivals
- dancing
- dining
- cooking
- wine
- vegetarian
- meditation
- clothing
- technology
- traveling
- socializing
- music
- equestrian
- hiking
- backpacking
- camping
- martial arts
- agriculture
- business
- languages
- mathematics
- science
- hitchhiking
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies and series? Either funny stuff or dark and creepy ones : Prometheus, Dexter, The Matrix, Dark City, Kaamelott, Caméra Café, The Big Bang Theory, Equilibrium, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeny Todd, Men in Black, The Man from Earth, Underworld, The Island, The Crow, also Samsara, Léon, Intouchable, L'immortel etc.
Oh, and music. I love music. A lot.
Festivals I've been to : Wacken Open Air 2011, Hellfest 2012, Wave Gotik Treffen 2013 +3x (and Camden Town, the alternative quarter of London in 2012).
Heavy metal : Insonmium, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, Judas Priest, WASP, Dissection, The Vision Bleak, Black Sabbath, Armored Saint, Ozzy Osbourne, Carcass, Amon Amarth, Swallow the Sun, Equilibrium, Megadeth, Moonsorrow, Soilwork, Wintersun, The Sword, Poisonblack, Amorphis, Sentenced, Helloween, Dominia, Ruoska, Arch Enemy, Saxon, Wolf, Kalmah, Axel Rudi Pell, Apocalyptica, Solstafir, Before the Dawn, Deathstars, Nightwish, Xandria, Symphony X, Battle Beast, Dark Tranquility, Grand Magus, Epica, Five Finger Death Punch, Mortemia, Opeth, Manowar, Hypocrisy, Pain, In Flames, The Absence, T.A.N.K, Gojira, Tristania, Deals Death, The Broken Result, Solipsist, Styricon, Barren Earth, Devildriver, Ensiferum, Turmion Katilot, Mercenary, Tyr, Eluveitie, Metallica, Skid Row...
Hard Rock : Airbourne, AC/DC, Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, Whitesnake, Cinderella, Warrant, Rose Tattoo, Kiss, Scorpions, Poison, Accept, Slash, Guns N' Roses, Crucified Barbara, Motorhead, Gotthard, Sticky Boys, The Deep End...
Gothic Rock : Savages, The Blue Angel Lounge, Principe Valiente, Editors, Terminal Gods, White Lies, Bauhaus, The Funeral Warehouse, Siouxie and the Bashee, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Merciful Nuns, Angels of Liberty, The Cure, She Past Away, The 69 Eyes, Fields of the Nephilim, The Cult, The Sisters of Mercy...
Classical, Blues, Rock 'n' roll & others : Interpol, Rory Gallagher, Patti Smith, Joe Satriani, Ludovico Einaudi, Gary Moore, Asphyxia, Deep Purple, Samaris, 16 Horsepower, Wovenhand, Agalloch, Nox Arcana, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Psyclon Nine, Two Steps from Hell....
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Meeting people I'll never forget, traveling to Norway, spontaneously taking the decision to go to Svalbard just because the forecast was better than in northern Norway, going to huge heavy metal and Gothic festivals, creating my company, using the amazing technology of nowadays, traveling all around Europe for 42 days (7 countries, 4000km by hitch-hiking, 3300km by plane and 1750km by train, 13 hosts and wild camping).
Teach, Learn, Share
Your culture and mine, language, food, traditions, visions of life, way of enjoying nature, music...
If you host me, a jar of caramel paste is often included, get the creme fraiche ready to make it!
Countries I’ve Visited
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
France