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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Swiss German; learning Arabic (Gulf)
  • 66, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Author and photoreporter
  • Law
  • From Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

ABOUT ME

I am a passionate and generous man who prefer to reach out to build a bridge that connects people rather than raise a wall between them.

PHILOSOPHY

As my personal description ;-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For now, i've only accepted guests. I never used Couchsurfing for myself.

Interests

Photography (my job), motorsports (my passion), writing (another of my jobs), horses (another of my passions), ...

  • horses
  • writing
  • photography
  • fishing
  • camping
  • journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Too long and too various to be detailed here ... :-(
Andrea Corr, Dire Straits, Ludovico Einaudi, Gong, Birdy, Frank Zappa, Moby, Alan Parson's Project, Al di Meola & Paco de Lucia, Bernard Lavilliers, Led Zeppelin, Dido, Alex Hepburn, Agnès Obel, Mike Olfield, peter Tosh, Tangerine Dream, Ange, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Some good moments in my career as a reporter : reporting about the situation of Christian refugees from Mosul (Iraq 2017), fishing for crab off the Ushant Isle (2007), following the competitors of the Historic Monte Carlo rally from Oslo (2007), sharing the life of a monastery in Mustang (1999), meeting refugees in Palestinian camps in the Lebanese Bekaa valley (1987), discovering a provincial market in Bangladesh (1987), living with Syrian refugees in camps (2016), helping in a Christmas humanitarian convey for refugees trapped in Greece (2016), ...

Teach, Learn, Share

I do a lot of conferences to speak about my reports about the refugees crisis and I help refugees to learn French.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bangladesh, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macedonia, Monaco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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