CURRENT MISSION

Trying not to be a missionary

ABOUT ME

My friend Bill says: ...has a well-developed sense of irony ...
... someone (a biologist apparantly) who can sometimes tell you more about the bugs you meet on a walk than you might want to know ;-)
...has a curiosity about other people(s) and their culture(s) and will certainly keep you up talking till all hours...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

hosting - surfing - hosting - surfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

... surfed many a couch - before joining CS.

Interests

Bird Watching; Slime Moulds, Sociobiology; Evolutionary Biology (Scientific, Anti-Creationism); Chaos Theory; Pattern Formation; Biological Clocks; Photography; Southern Africa; Zazen; Paradoxa ...

• birds
• culture
• photography
• surfing
• biology

Music, Movies, and Books

Douglas R. Hofstadter (Metamagicum), Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, A Devil's Chaplain, The Blind Watchmaker),Mat Ridley (The Origins of Virtue); Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency); Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle); Frederic Vester (The Art of interconnected thinking); Raymond M. Smullyan (What is the name of this book ?); Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point; Blink); John Briggs (Turbulent Mirror);...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

... went by train from Moscow to Vladivostok in winter - sitting or lying on a sofa for almost a week and watching the siberian winter landscape pass by. Now I do know what "couchsurfing" literally means. ;-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Macao, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Botswana, Germany, Lesotho

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