COVID Vaccination Status - Fully vaccinated with 2 Pfizer initial vaccines and 3 Moderna booster with the last booster taken on 30/09/2022

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20 November 24 to 06 December 24
Coming to Goa from London and planning to stay mainly in South Goa. Any offer of hosting will be greatly appreciated. Meeting up for a coffee or a drink will be cool too. Will have my 31 Yr friend from Rajasthan travelling with me too. Feel free to contact me for more details
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CURRENT MISSION

Mission Impossible

ABOUT ME

I am a laidback person who enjoys meeting new people.
For me, travel is meaningless without some sort of contact, at any level, with the local people of a place I visit. However beautiful a place, at the end of the day, for me, it the people of the place that make me like the place or not.

PHILOSOPHY

SBNR
Coming from a Jain background I guess all my moral and philosophical beliefs spring (or should do) from the central concept of AHIMSA. Unfortunately it is much more easy concept to accept in theory than to apply in practice. But I am trying.
Keep it simple.
Do not judge or be judged.
Do not cause suffering or take suffering.
The world needs less religion and more spirituality.
My conscience is the highest authority in my moral decisions. I do not need, and indeed find it an insult to my conscience and intelligence, to think that I need a preacher or a book to tell me right from wrong.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love travelling and meeting new people on my travels. Prefer to interact with local residents of any destination rather than impersonal hotel staff. Also love hosting people from all over the world to exchange ideas.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted many times and surfed a few times.
Hosted a CS charity BBQ event for 40+ guests at my place on behalf of a CS member from outside London
Held kitchen-surfing dinners at my place 3 times

Interests

Travelling - as follows

visited 27 states (12%)Create your own visited map of The World or Free android travel guide

And especially travelling within India as follows -

visited 12 states (34.2%)Create your own visited map of India or Free android travel guide

And then reading, films, music, spirituality, yoga, holistic massage, nature, wildlife, sunrise, sunsets, beaches, mountains.
Have started to apprecaite art - mainly abstract paintings and sclupture too.
Have started to learn painting using acrlyics - any help in this area will be greatly appreciated!

Music, Movies, and Books

Books -
Things fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga -
to understand India!Bombay: Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Life of Pi - Yann MartelMovies -PakeezaDevdasSlumdog MillionaireAmelieJodaa AkbarLa vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)Music -Dhrupad, Jazz, Ghazals, Sufi, Chet Baker, A R Rehman,Fela Kuti
TV Series - Breaking Bad, Fargo, Better Call Saul, Orange is the New Black

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visiting Jain temples in Ranakpur, Rajasthan and in Palitana, Gujarat.
Experiencing Dev Deepawali celebrations in Varanasi, India.
Watching the annual wilderbeest migration in Serengati in Kenya.
Viewing the Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania.
Experiencing the laidback life of Lamu, Kenya and the backwaters of Kerala, India.
Travelling for one month throughout Europe on Euro Rail on a grand budget of £70 (admittedly this was quite a few years ago but without the benefits of internet or Couch Surfing at that time).
Walked in total silence thru a forest from pre dawn to sunrise - awesome
Watching the sun rise over snow peaked Himalayas

Teach, Learn, Share

Share life experiences., travel experiences, good food and jokes and more

What I Can Share with Hosts

My company, good conversation over dinner. I can guide you through a basic stretching exercises using yoga postures. I am learning Thai Yoga massage and can offer that.
Maybe I can cook simple Indian vegetarian meals.
Can guide you about London.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Burundi, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Rwanda, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kenya, United Kingdom

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