Hi there! I'm Ulysse :D

Junior software engineer gradute. I litteraly chose this job so I could work remote and get to travel the most as possible haha!!

A casual fellow traveler of the community. I'm super outgoing, cheerfull and my friend say I'm funny but I don't know about that 😅 It goes without saying I love meeting new people, my girlfriend even says I would "have a conversation with a stone".., so yeah I like sharing stories :')

To me it's all about the experience and memories we make as a group, I don't have a todo list of places to see when I'm in a country I could care less about doing this 'must' or ‘that’ I just wanna feel genuine atmospheres, and meet authentic people.

One thing I dislike much is this expression we hear all the time: "doing a country" that people say when they've been to a place for a week. I never get the feeling I "did" a country, I'd say it's quite the opposite, the country has done me, or rather I grew, in a certain sense, with it

I've always been in the mountains as far as I can remeber, growing up we would go to the French Alps all the time with my family. I love hiking and seeing nature, trees the fresh scent of forest etc.

I’m still new to couch surfing and I hope to meet interesting people along the way.
Oh and one last thing, I love learning languages, so if we do meet, please teach me a bit of yours that'd make me the happiest, cheers :)

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For surfers who I will host!

I live in Issy-les-Moulineaux, next to Paris in an appartment, with my girlfriend. Since it also concerns my companion, I WILL be picky, sorry

Try to send your request like 2 weeks in advance max, if it's much more than that I don't have visibility and want to do my best for hosting you! But feel free to contact me

This is not free airbnb, and I will not host you if:
- You're not polite
- Think I'm some kind of hotel (I expect for some kind of interaction between us)
- Send copy/paste requests
- Either my girlfriend or me have a weird feeling about you

Other than that, I'll make my best to host you or answer you! If I take a bit to respond don't worry I'll come back to you :D (I might just be busy or have a lotta requests)

Edit: Currently traveling in Japan until May ! So I won't be taking request until then! ✍️

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

===Not on Couchsurfing to get free accomodation!! I can pay for a guesthouse for myself ^−^.. ===
-> What I care about tho is meeting people who live there and are open to talk and do stuffs. So if you want to host me we'll have fun 100%

As I said before I love meeting new people! So to meet people and live life fully!!!

My one dream is to see the WHOLE world one day, islands, countries, regions, the real deal🌎
But it's so sad to me to go from airbnb to guesthouse, sure I love my fellow travelers! But if I go to chile and only see Americans and Frenchs I don't think I will have learned/traveled much

So I want to meet people from everywhwere🐟🗺️🦦

Interests

I love cinema and music. Couldn’t live without hiking, seeing the mountain and sights 🍃
And I wanna see further than the mountains of the country I was born in. Be it by sea, by foot or bicycle I wanna see it all
I also play Kendama (Japanese skill toy) I’d love to share that with you ☺️
We could talk about sport ⚽️ 🏀 or informatics 💻 or games (video 🧑‍💻or tabletop 🎲), music, cinema, society, or just crack jokes

• cooking
• classical music
• jazz
• rock music
• piano
• hiking
• backpacking
• skiing
• sports
• rowing
• languages
• software
• cinema
• pastry
• japanese culture
• kendama
• software development
• informatics
• kanji

Music, Movies, and Books

Music always gets me going, it’s so great to discover what makes other people groove 🤙 always love to share that with others. From Queen, to Bob Marley or Avicii, even Central Cee or Fujii Kaze!
If you like either rock, jazz, electro, classical music, pop, blues, Jpop, Jrock we’re gonna have great time
Let’s share our music together 😗

I’ve seen all kinds of classics, cause I love cinema too! I met my girlfriend volunteering at a cinema festival! From Charlie Chapline to Jean Luc Godard, Christopher Nolan or Akira Kurosawa I love cinema! 🎦
We could talk about New wave, Hollywood, early American cinema or Italian cinema, my favorite above all is Japanese through all the years, so really if you like cinema just a bit I’d love to hear about your thoughts and suggestions.

My favorite movie would be “the Wind rises” by Hayao Miyazaki
A top would be:
・M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
・Any Ghibli movie (by 宮崎駿, Hayao Miyazaki)
・Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
・Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (偶然と想像 by Ryuusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I hitchhiked through Italy

Also I spent 5 years in France renovating heritage monuments forming youth camps !! ~

And went on a solo trip for 3 months around Japan 🇯🇵

Teach, Learn, Share

I am French so naturally, je parle français! Si vous voulez parler avec moi c’est avec plaisir 🇫🇷🥐

Can cook french food as well as bake pasteries.
I play Kendama! I’ll teach you any trick you want 🪀
Also I play a bit of piano, I could play you a lil' something ahah

Can teach French and English maybe give an introduction to japanese too🤗
Learning languages is my one passion, I learned English, Spanish, and Japanese (まだまだです（−＿−；）)
And a tad of Polish, Russian, Italian, German and Korean

If you're a nerd like me I do love math physics tech, and definitely games, be it tabletop or video (Retro games of course or nintendo, maybe some PC games too)!
Take me to any second store and I'm a happy man haha!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Want to share good times, memories, either be it a crazy night or a chill afternoon. We will one hundred percent have fun. I'll share my jokes, stories, food, water and aaaair !!! xD

I don’t get satisfied with the superficial world we're offered through media, so let's have a real human connection :] !

I’d like to hear about your way of living, stories if you've got some to share, your recommendations, bars or small shops, even hikes if you know some! There is so much to see and so much to learn I can’t wait to meet ya! 🙃

I try my best to bring goods from France so if you're lucky I might have some for you, and of course we'll have a good time 😚

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France