I live in Espoo, in the suburbia of Helsinki with my wife Suvi and two small kids. I work with IT, mainly related to Wikipedia at the moment. My wife is a medical doctor and PHD.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet awesome, fun, smart people! I host people in Espoo, and I have visited people abroad too.

Interests

I regularly run with a group of friends, and I also enjoy explorative trail running on my own. I enjoy skiing and cycling - adventuring basically.

A lot of my time goes to doing stuff with my kids. The local forrest or park, or local hardware store becomes fascinating to visit with them :)

• running
• traveling
• cycling
• skiing
• world history

Music, Movies, and Books

My bookshelf has a variety from Plato to Steve Jobbs, from Stieg Larsson to Erlan Loe. I get excited by good, less known movies.

I recently went to the movies after a look break: I enjoyed House of Gucci.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I can't restrict to one... I'm quite an active outdoorsy person. :)
- Ski touring in Lyngen, Norway
- Cycling independently with just a backpack through the French alps from Geneve to Nice in six days.
- Paragliding solo in dunes outside Lima, Peru.
- Backpacking in South America three months.
- Ice skating over frozen sea to islands outside Helsinki, Finland.
- Hiking off-trail for a week in Finnish Lappland.
- Walking with my sleeping daughter in her pram for 19 km on a sunny Sunday

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to ski, repair your bike or to say impossible things in Finnish.

Please take me to your favorite hill, mountain, viewpoint by foot or on skiis :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

A walk around of Helsinki with both an Urban and a Rural experience.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden

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