CURRENT MISSION
- I don't have SIM card on my phone so my access to internet is very random but I do my best to get wifi wherever I can !

- my requests may not be super personalised, mostly because I take time to carefully read profiles before sending one, and travel is about getting to know what's around you, not spending entire mornings preparing it...
I hope you understand, because I'll be pleased to meet you anyways 🙂

A current journey through Eurasia that might end up in a world tour,
Working on completing my first 100 000km hitch-hiking.

ABOUT ME

Old fashion traveler, long term tourist, curious about the world, in love with all means of transport (though the one of others remain my favorite), being on the road fills up my tank.

I like walking, long and far away hikes, riding a bike, putting a "." at the end of every sentence, lame jokes, playing clarinet, cow-boy camping under many many stars, playing clarinet, hitch-hiking, listening to live music, hitch-hiking, philosophizing about life, universe and everything around a beer (or three), sewing my own gear, noodles with a lot of cheese, ...

PHILOSOPHY

Learned in Amazonia : TIENES QUE PODER !
Learned on the road : Pay it forward.
Learned with experience : Wine makes you talkative but doesn't ease your speech.

"It is necessary to make the difference between keeping your reason and keeping your reason for living."
Romain GARY.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Spreading the good vibe all over the world (yeah, nothing but that), sharing my knowledge about places I've been, people I've met.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some, mostly in South America.
Regarding where I live when not travelling (so not so often and somehow remote), I host mainly through other platforms.

Interests

Music ahead of everything and litterature, a lot, I have a passion for words.
For this journey I let my clarinet at home and took a lighter transverse flute instead... but I don't know how to play yet 😅

Then history, wood working, sciences, economy, house maintainance, sociology, antropology, wine, french fries, your story, ... the list is looong!

• writing
• diy
• cooking
• wine
• traveling
• music
• live music
• hiking
• sailing
• history
• science
• hitchhiking
• nature
• trekking
• wines
• bike riding
• busking
• bike touring
• hitch-hiking
• brass bands

Music, Movies, and Books

Wow... almost all the music with lyrics I listen to is in french so it won't help... apart from that any well written/composed song, New Orleans and gypsy jazz, cumbia, brazilian music, soul and funk music, brass bands, ... if there is instruments and some harmony I should like it, if there is an accordion, it's even better.
Same thing for writers, mainly french autors from 19-20th century, Jack Kerouac talks to me too. Slowly starting to read books in english and spanish to extend my library.
I don't watch a lot of movies, I really liked Fight club but then I discovered it is beforehand a book...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

So far I hitch-hiked more than 70 000km over 35 countries... I do did some. I also wrote a book about a part of it.

Teach, Learn, Share

Spend my whole time doing one of those three things, when it's not the three at the same time... always ready to teach something, always open to a good advice.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Some french/english/spanish/portugese, loads of travel tips, sewing a hem, changing a flat tire, ... also I'm not a chef but I like to cook, people are still alive to testify.

I spend a lot of time in the open air, so when I stay somewhere it is as much to rest (what a strange feeling to just enjoying having walls around you haha) as to get to know my hosts and the city-country they live in, learn about the region I'm travelling through... and for some countries enjoying english speakers and not struggling with the local languages !

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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