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Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
@TUNGUS
Member since 2006
CURRENT MISSION educating people about the useful properties of buckwheat ABOUT ME two wheels, spokes, saddle, handlebar, baggage rack, sometimes punctured tyres. I almost forgot - I always have a spare tube! In short I am a pretty ordinary rusty piece of machinery, but sometimes I surprise even myself. Check my website for photographs of some of the best places I have seen, if you can read Russian - you can read the travelogues. PHILOSOPHY current mood- Dont you know we are riding on the Marrakesh express, All aboard that train....(from a song) а вооб
Interested in Adventure Sports
Fluent in Chinese (Simplified)
Learning Persian (Farsi)
7 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING hosting those who ask for a couch, when my couch is available and when I am around COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE It is getting more and more difficult to surf people\s couches. I can tell you that. In the CS hubs out of 20 Definitely hosting, 50 percent definitely say no and maybe one says it is OK for a day. Good thing people reply.
Music, Movies, and Books
I read and watch and listen to everything Led Zeppelin,Metallica, Tool and Janes addiction, STP, Dagestan Pandur, Holly Golightly, Curandero, Akosh, Dazkarieh and even Michael Jackson´s Billy Jean. THe music of the old couch is particularly attractive. I also like the music of the wheels of the train going home. the sound of avalanches far away, darbuka+tabla jamming. last good movie seen - "Komsomolsk", about how young people built a city just out of enthusiasm. Books reading now - Latour , Iconoclash other good books - Ballard, Russian literature of all times.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
amazing things seen - Snowdrifts in Africa(Mokhotlong, Lesotho)) a black bear from a train in British Columbia. a. thing done - been born in Russia amazing sounds heard - hyenas howling outside my tent in Damaraland. One amazing thing which happened to me is almost being shot dead from a rifle in Tuva Republic. And having a night visit of a brown bear on Sakhalin island (the tent smelled of foul fish and so the big guy got attracted). I still think - maybe it was a cow?
Teach, Learn, Share
I have got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket. A bell that rings And things to make it look good I'd give it to you if I could But I borrowed it
What I Can Share With Hosts
humour and dinner, navigation
My Interests
Drinking tea at the porch in the old summer house
