CURRENT MISSION

The object of foreign travel, is not so much to set foot overseas as to see one's own country as a foreign land - Chesterson (1874-1936)

ABOUT ME

I'm an easy-going guy (something of a cliche on CS), discovering the world and getting in touch with its inhabitants.What I like the best is the combination of travelling (mostly hithchiking) and couchsurfing. Although I grew up in the small farmervillage Nieuw-Lekkerland (litteraly translated: 'New-tastycountry) I do like visiting cities and hanging around in urban areas. Since I'm studying I have plenty of sparetime (except for the testweeks of course) to travel.

PHILOSOPHY

- not because it's easy but because it's hard (J.F.K)- doing things that seems almost impossible. Although it can be hard sometimes, we have to keep in contact with other-minded people in order to stay nuanced about the world, cultures and people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Both are wonderfull ways to meet new people. Here are two short video fragments about me Couchsurfing in Belgium (both were on national television): http://nieuws.vtm.be/binnenland/88398-overheid-jaagt-op-couchsurfers
http://kanaalz.knack.be/nieuws/z-nieuws-items/informele-logies-onder-vuur/video-4000597500899.htm
Thanks to the fanatic defiance of Belgian CS'ers the plan wasn't carried out.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed many times.(pretty difficult verb to change, for a Dutchman at least). The first time we stayed in Antwerp for one night on our way to France, our hosts showed us the city,especially the bars, and we had a lot of interesting talks with them, at any rate; a pretty good begin of my CS-Career.After this wonderful experience I decided to couchsurf as much as possible.

visited 5 states (2.22%)Create your own visited map of The World

History:
Antwerp - on our way to Fecamp (2013), with Casper (@Remco and Patrick)
Cologne - with William (@ Frank Kraft)
Brussels - (@Jerrick)
Ghent - with Jan-Maarten
Brugge - (@Mattie)
Monchengladbach - with Niels (@RealNew)
Antwerp - with Patrick (@Alex)
Hamburg - with Gersom (@Stephen)
Leipzig - with Maarten (@Simone)
Dresden: with Elian (@Alexander)

Interests

(post-war) history (especially the International Relations part of it), military history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, languages, cultures and utopias.

• traveling
• guitar
• surfing
• history
• international relations
• languages
• psychology
• sociology
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies; The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, The pianist, Equilibrium, Lord of the Rings, Forest gump. 1984 Music: Johnny Cash, John Denver, ToTo, Hits of the fifties, Destine, Simple plan, The rasmuss Books: A brave new world, the Hungergames, 1984, The hobbit, The Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared and The girl who saved the king of Sweden (to summarise: I really like Jonas Jonasson)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking to Berlin, we were not able to reach Berlin in one day, so a few vagabonds were our hosts

Teach, Learn, Share

People who're into their community, country, town or village so that you can exchange knowledge with them.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Play a little guitar, learning languages, showing Leiden.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovakia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands