CURRENT MISSION

Having fun, follow my path, and accomplish my childhood dreams.

ABOUT ME

[LAST EDIT 10/2024]

Currently in France, soon heading back to the Indian Ocean, to the island of La Réunion, for one last season as a mountain guide there.

And then, we’ll see. It’s probably once again time for a return to India. It’s been far too long since I came back in that country that has always called somehow to me (oddly enough, it all started when I was 6 years old..) and where, strangely, I always felt at peace. A little veg thali in the Delhi train station would be just perfect !

And then, the world is still a vast open field !

Druidz, the wild edible plant geolocalization app and the collaborative cookbook project are reaching Beta soon. The onebag project (all around compact discret combo bagback/sleeping bag/tent/mattress) is almost fully prototyped. Everything is in place for new adventures, new projects, and new inspiring connections, trying to bring something meaningful here to share with my fellow co-planet living forms !

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[EDIT from last year]

Going up North to Tromso from Paris to enjoy the northern light, plan the next moves (cycling to Kyoto from there ?) and working as a guide in the middle of nowhere !

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[EDIT from far away]

Travelling in New Zealand, walking the length of the archipelago from North to South following the Te Araroa Trail.

3000 km on 5 months of wild fun incoming :-D

I m realizing a map of wild edible NZ natives medicinal and edible plants that i share to everyone on my website (www.eat-the-road.com)

I love meeting new people to share about plants, life, yoga, happiness, and everything else :-D

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For now, working on AntarctIca and subpolarian topics for the French Southern Territories. Fun job, and sedentary for the moment on Saint Pierre !

[Old présentation from super far away] I m traveling by bike crossing France and maybe more. Studying edible plants, and enjoying meeting peoples !

Montpellier look like a great city.

If a CS could make me discover it, it could be great !

PHILOSOPHY

Don't think, do it !

If you think it will make you feel good do it !

Enjoy !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I grew up in the suburbs of Paris, a beautiful place close to forests and fields.

It’s in the Val d'Oise, a region where many Impressionist painters, like Van Gogh or Pissarro, came for the unique light.

I also host on Réunion Island, a volcanic island near Madagascar, where I have my main address. However, I’ve only spent about 3 months per year there on average over the last 9 years, and I haven’t been back in almost 2 years (as of October 2024).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Many of my friends have been surfers and hosts.

I like the concept, and I enjoy talking with travelers. It’s always interesting to meet people who have a different perspective on places you already know. I’m convinced everyone has something to teach you—people are treasures in their own way, and it’s always enriching to share experiences together!

I can also practice my English this way (or my Spanish).

Interests

I'm really into study of edible wilds plants. I worked in WWOOF and write an essay on economics potential of a permacultural farm.

I also dance Tango, play piano, practice mountain running, cook vegetarian...

Many differents things actually. For the moment I'm preparing a cyclo trip from Paris to Spain or more in total autonomy. (edit : i m still into now)

[NOW from few years]

In Aotearoa, enjoying the wild side of the forest, trying new tasty plants :)

[\NOW]

• animals
• birds
• books
• dancing
• tango
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• running
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• piano
• cycling
• economics
• wwoof
• art
• freedom
• authenticity
• astrophotography
• pianos
• wild edible plants

Music, Movies, and Books

Many differents. I change my kind of art interest many times during a day.

I can like trash poetry or biografic-fiction in a Bukowski way. To a polar-novel Shantaram style. Classical philosophic books. Dickens, Thompson, Gide, Platon, H. Hesse, Fante, Tolstoï and other (like Miyamoto Musashi's biography, for example). Reading La Horde du Contrevent of Damasio right now. Really have a vast interest in any kind of art, since it keeps me captivated too.

All the Qatsi trilogy, yes, a very big yes!

Hidden gem talking of Walkabout in the bush filmed with an analog camera, a big yes too. Globally, road trip contemplatively drifting in-between movie, please more.

Tango (Argentino, most of all for me) is great! Some piece of pure essence in it.

And Hariprasad Chaurasia so much, so so much..

Stars of the Lid also in a very different way, but yes, Stars of the Lid!

Justin Vernon - Hazeltons era, I like it too!

YouTube unknown also, like the voice of Merival.

And Born Free from M.I.A in another very different way.

Don't forget the PINK FLOYD like Fat OId Sun moments !!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

If I'm grandfather one day, sure I will tell the day when grandpa Vincent was close to be eat by a Bengal tiger in a Nepali National Park, but many more are even weirder! My full numbers are even stranger, though they’re really better to share in real life.

Special mention to the Made in India category. Like the time I found myself negotiating how much my parents would pay to get me back alive during a night hitchhike in a forest full of tigers. Or that day when I couldn’t find anywhere to sleep and ended up crashing in the corner of a hotel manager's room—while said manager farted in his underwear, and some kind of mongoose ran through the room every now and then during the night. But it was fine. It wasn’t as bad as the time a deadly snake fell on my head in a hut in a small village, biting one of my far-off dreadlocks, turning into a living extension in front of my face for a split second.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can most of all share what i know of edible plants.

I know also birds, animals, interesting books (at least enough interesting for reading a part) and good place in India !

Then, I can also share 2-3 tips on cooking wild plants, and other knowledge gathered during my adventures as a business creator around making and selling tropical dried fruits from ugly and uncalibrated fruits, or when I had a jewelry-making or origami business (origami has been a little personal passion of mine for a very long time already).

Not to mention maybe other things weird or not picked up here and there, and maybe some tips for astrophotography, and other things, I have a lot of curiosity for many topics !

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share about wild edibles, weird story about how to spot animals in the wild, astrophotography tips, way of saving fruits and travel forever, or many other things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belize, Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, Poland, Réunion, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Réunion