CURRENT MISSION

Find people

ABOUT ME

Yasou!

Life is unpredictable...
Currently doing a PhD in Coral immunology and dancing tango. I moved onto a narrowboat and I'm increasingly happy with this decision: I love my boat!

I studied Zoology at Edinburgh University and came back from beautiful Greece where I worked on turtle conservation and travelled. I lived in Berlin temporarily and now I am based in Oxford. I'm keen on meeting interesting people and making travelling much nicer!

I love to learn, travel, build or participate to projects (conservation, tango clubs ;)), meet interesting people, love nature and dance a lot of tango!

Love a bustling and vibrant city but above all the peacefulness of the countryside and escaping the beaten track.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is short, better not worry about petty things and get to know as much as you can of this beautiful world. Be yourself, keep your integrity and own morals and values. And few things can make sense if you don't have people you love around you you can share your life with.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am happy to meet people for drinks, and help in any other way I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Met amazing people and made life-long friends through couchsurfing. I surfed in Rome, Crete, New York, Sicily, London and Berlin and always had a great experience. Thanks to all!

Interests

Nature, music (classical, jazz (swing, gypsy, bossa nova, electro), tango and more), dancing (tango!), horse riding, trekking,swimming, sciences, social sciences, economics, history, architecture, languages, photography, yoga, and travelling of course, discovering new places, people, cultures, and ways of thinking. And recently: Surfing, Scuba Diving, a little of free diving.

• architecture
• photography
• dancing
• tango
• yoga
• drinking
• clubbing
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• jazz
• surfing
• scuba diving
• track and field
• swimming
• biology
• economics
• history
• languages
• social science

Music, Movies, and Books

Tarkovsky, Bunuel, Bergman, Midnight express, Life is beautiful, Days of Heaven, Amadeus, most of Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), David Attenborough (Life on Earth, Life in the undergrowth). The Truman show. Truman capote. The pink panther (peter sellers rocks), Doctor Strange Love (***), Some Like it Hot, Rome. Persepolis. Amarcord. 8 1/2. Le diner de cons. A wonderful life. Her (Spike Jonze).

Music: Rachmaninov, Debussy, tchaikovsky, De Falla, Bach, Cesaria Evora, piazzola, tango, the doors, all guitar music, ***jazz***, cuban, Stephan Wrembel, stephane Grapelli, Ella fitgerald, Caravan Palace, Massive Attack, Koop, Waldeck, Os Mutantes...

books: les fleurs du mal (baudelaire), Foundation (Asimov), a la croisée des mondes (pullman), Cod, Brave New World, 1984, ***Heart of Darkness*** (Conrad), Kafka, Camus, Kundera

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Trekking in the Himalayas... Learning yoga in an ashram (Rishikesh, India).

Dancing all night until dawn, until exhaustment

Living on Crete!

Tropical Biology course in Costa Rica

Teach, Learn, Share

If you see the world in a positive way and start really believing in things, they often come to you. Like meeting very nice people and having a very good time :)

A bit of tango

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Greece, Honduras, India, Italy, Panama, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Germany, Greece, United Kingdom

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