CURRENT MISSION

finding my way out of the urban maze (update: I managed : )

ABOUT ME

I can settle dow-own and be doin'just fine
Til I hear an old train rollin'down the line
Then I hurry strai-aight home and pack
And if I didn' go, I believe I' blow my stack
I love you ba-aby, but you gotta understand
When the lord made me
He made a ramblin' man.

Some folks might sa-ay that I' no good
That I wouldn' settle down if I could
But when that open ro-oad starts to callin'me
There' somethin'o'r the hill that I gotta see
Sometimes it' har-rd but you gotta understand
When the lord made me, he made a ra-amblin'man.

I love to see the tow-owns a-passin'by
And to ride these rails 'eath god' blue sky
Let me travel this la-and from the mountains to the sea
'Cause that' the life I believe he meant for me
And when I' go-one and at my grave you stand
Just say God called home your ra-amblin'man.

- Hank Williams -

PHILOSOPHY

Patience, Love, Forgiveness, Humor, Empathy.. Mix 'm up and the outcome should be what it's all about..

I am living together with my lovely wife and our little love terrorist Noortje.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'll just be me and help people around me getting along on their trip.. Whatever their trip may be..

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have always been inviting "strangers" over at my place.. Way before couchsurfing came to exist. Its one of the great pleasures in life.. To give and to share..

Interests

Bikes
Banjo´s
Fat furry cats
Dark beers
Smelling old books
Quirky Architecture
I want to make my own Ger (Yurt)
Being a couch potato watching films all day
Lentil soup
Borders
The 'Nothing'
Sea
Dancing
Baglamadaki
Art Brut
Stealth Camping
People with an extreme bad taste for esthetics
Sneezing sheep
Sharing stories
Flea market junk

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Man without a past, Night on Earth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Science of Sleep, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus
Music: Taraf de Haidouks, Hackensaw Boys, Bach, Horace Andy, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, RL Burnside, Bootsy Collins, Old Alan Lomax shit, Charlie Parker, Satie, Ramses Shaffy, Old Crow Medicine Show, Herman Brood, Velvet Underground, , Mudhoney, Earl Scruggs, Neil Young, Crazy Pakistani Sufi stuff, Public Enemy, Solon Lekkas
Books: Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Bohumil Hrabal, Hermann Hesse, dr Hunter S. Thompson
Humor: Gummbah!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I cycled from Amsterdam to Kathmandu.. 12.000km of wwooooowwwww and waaaaaaaaahhhhh....

Teach, Learn, Share

Lentil soup, staring out of windows, baglamadakis, blues harp, basic bicycle maintenance, manoeuvring thru moments of derealisation and near insanity..

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Tajikistan, United States

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