CURRENT MISSION

Meet people around the world.

ABOUT ME

I am mostly optimistic, creative, open-minded, and cheerful (Martin)
I like to laugh, and I'm good at listening to others (Dorothee)

PHILOSOPHY

Life is what you make it (Martin)
I try to live at the moment.

Interests

I like to play guitar (self-taught). I like to take photographs. I am interested in chemistry (mostly anorganic) and electronics (Martin)
I love my little garden and our cats (loving our children is life, not one of my "interests"). I just started learning to play the flute, but it will be a long way (Dorothee)

• cats
• cooking
• electronics
• gardening
• socializing
• guitar
• chemistry

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dr. Strangelove, High Anxiety.
Music: Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Robben Ford, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Average White Band.
Books: Novels by Fred Vargas (Martin)
Fred Vargas, too, and Jean Paul, and Lily Brett, the great american-jewish-australian author (Dorothee)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We built a herb spiral of 3 m diameter in our semi-detached houses' garden in 2011 using self-collected bricks. I visited the ruins of Great-Zimbabwe near Masvingo, Zimbabwe, in 1984.(Martin)
We had a Liberian pastor as a guest with us who was bright and openminded and told us about funny things and war as well (Dorothee)

Teach, Learn, Share

learning how other people cook.
I know some things about plants and am always interested to share about nature-things

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom