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Overview

  • 6 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish; learning German, Italian
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • highschool teacher
  • What a question! I studied History in Spanish Philologie ...
  • From A Corunha, Galicia, Spain
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to fight against pragmatism and the horrible tendency to useful purposes

ABOUT ME

hum...I was born at a very young age in the NW of Spain, but soon I get tired of rain and I came to live to the even more rainly French Britanny, so everyday I wake up asking myself why I didnt try to live under the sun of the Sicily or something like that :-(

I'm a simple person, even if some of my friends finds me so complicated, who likes to read, to write, play theather ( and write it), going out to bars, listen to music, travel and enjoy the time with my girlfriend, my baby, my friends...I like to find new people from different countrys and learn about them. Met a new person and speak with a bottle of red wine, that is something I really love!

PHILOSOPHY

Those are my principles and if you dont like them...well, I have others

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd like to host people but also have the opportunity to be hosted in my travels. I would like to visit Northen Netherlands and Germany this next summer

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I used Couchsurfing when I travelled to Rotterdam with a friend, and it was a magnific experience, but travelling is something that I couldnt do too much the last two years, so I really don't have too much experience!

Interests

I think that I have a lot of different interest so it's difficult to elaborate a "list" about them..so let's try:

I love the History, the Celtic Civilisation, the Middle Age, after all the old traditions wich are still alive in
so many European countries, as Britanny ( that's why I live here), but my biggest interest is to write. I also like the Middle Age gastronomie ( I can cook some medieval recipes!) and everything relationed with wine.

I also adore to go to concerts in bars, more than festivals, and of course, cinema and theather.

  • concerts
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • wine
  • red wine
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

what I like;

the Monthy Phyton
The adventures of Jeremy Johnson
Woody Allen, The Marx Brothers
The man that should be king
All John Ford
All John Huston
Sam Peckimpah
Tarantino
Zoolander!!
Italian neorealism, Vittorio De Sica, Francesco Rosi, etc
I dont know..

Literature....betwen my favorite writers there's a lot of English and Americans writers from the XIX century, but also Spanish of Latinoamericans or Italians/ Germans: I love Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Stevenson,Chesterton, Borges, Kafka,Swedenborg,Pirandello..always a litle bit in the dark side!

In music I love after all ( it's my generation) the Grunge, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl
Jam, Foo Fightersetc. Even if I listen a lot of differents musics I always love these groups..I like Tom Waits, Pj Hrvey, Those poor bastards, Sons of perdition, but I like also Dylan, Led Zeppelin and even metal groups as Mastodon, Intronaut, or more
classics as Metallica. I listen some folk music as Devendra Banhart or european traditional music, but even if I'm spanish I hate Flamenco!!

and everyday I listen more classic music..oh my old age!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I crossed the Ocean (for love) to try to recuperate my American girlfriend from the arms of another guy, until Nebraska, She came with me again, but finally it didn't work C'est la vie!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Spanish and Galician, that's sure, but also I have a good knowledge of the Irish,Scottish,Welsh,Briton and Galician popular superstitions and traditions from the Megalythic to the XX century!:-) I don't know if that can interest someone apart me...:-(

And I will love to learn more guitar, I'm tryng alone for two years without success!

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Spain, United States

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