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👤 Hi! I'm Wiktor, 21yo backpacker. I hitchike every spare time and I want to meet new people and take a part in cultural exchange. I'm from Drezdenko (Lubusz voivodeship) next to Gorzów Wielkopolski and moving to Kraków in october to study at Jagiellonian University.

👍 hitchhiker and backpacker
📷 (wannabe) photographer
🌍 climate activist
🫑 vegan
🏕️ ex-scout in Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego

instagram: @wiktorpahl
facebook: Wiktor Pahl
trustroots: @verde

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

because "Happiness only real when shared" 🌞

Interests

- traveling/backpacking/hitchhiking
- climate change
- labor unions
- vanlife
- veganism/vegetarianism/cooking
- graphic design/art
- filmmaking and photography
- history
- public transport
- skiing
- listening to music from around the world - from venezuelan rap to mongolian rock
- listening to podcasts
- reading books
- graffiti
- tattoos and piercing
- squatting
- foodsharing/food not bombs
- dumpster diving
- gardening/farming/plants
- zero waste
- activism

• graphic design
• cooking
• survival
• camping
• ecology
• languages
• hitchhiking
• art
• food
• activism
• cuisine
• climate change
• vegan cooking
• renewable energy
• public transportation
• yerba mate
• moomins

Music, Movies, and Books

🎵 music:
Vance Joy, Lorde, Girl in red, Adala, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, of monsters and men, Harry Styles,
my Spotify: Viktor "Verde" Pahl

📚 books:
Naomi Klein's books, Gorączka Latynoamerykańska, Tam, To dla Pani ta cisza, Anne of Green Gables,

🎬 movies:
Into the Wild, Forrest Gump, Cloud Atlas, Expedition Happiness,

📺 tv series:
Avatar, Friends, How I met your Mother, Gravity Falls, Hilda, The End of the f*****g World, Sex Education, Heartstopper, Bojack Horseman, Stranger Things, Euphoria, Absolutely Beginners,

🗣️ podcasts:
[Polish] Dział Zagraniczny, Brzmienie świata z lotu drozda, Mao powiedziane and Dwie Lewe Ręce,
[English] Queer as Fact,

🍝 food:
tomato curry, pasta with pesto, scrambled tofu, jollof rice, dall, sambar, pastéis de nata, bola de berlim, francesinha, tortilla de patatas, pierogi, life-changing tofu, burrito, mac and cheese, brownie, gingerbread, chocolate chip cookies, vegan mackerel paste, tomato-pepper soup,

🍵 non-alcoholic drinks:
yerba mate, zapatistas coffee,

🍻 alcoholic drinks:
calimocho, cuba libre, aperol spritz,

💬 favourite quotes:
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow”
– Anita Desai
“Not all those who wander are lost”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!"
- Tove Jansson

✅ like: food, languages and cultures, books, art, nature, 100 montaditos,
❎ don't like: lakritz, racism and prices in Switzerland 😅

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hitchhiking/backpacking:
2021: Berlin, Bieszczady mountains,
2022: Germany, Copenhagen, Prague,
2023: Slovakia, Hungary, Ljubljana, Trieste, Venice,
2024: Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay
➡️2025 plans: Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Morocco,

DiscoverEU in 2023 (Switzerland, France, Catalonia, Spain and Portugal)

I lived for a few weeks in a barracks in Bieszczady Mountains (Turnicki National Park).

vegan art camp in Herzershof in 2020

Woodstock festival in Poland

Polish Scouting rally (zlot Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego) in 2018

🌍 countries I've visited:
Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Ukrainie, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, England, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Italy, Sicily, Vatican, France, Catalonia, Basque Country, Spain, Portugal,
🌏 countries I want to visit:
Georgia, Palestine, Albania, Greece, Moldova, Finland, Ireland, Mexico, Bolivia, Morocco, Tunisia, Greenland, Nunavut (northern Canada), Basque Country, India,

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn more languages (russian, arabic and farsi) and yoga.
I have to finish my driving license and learn playing guitar.

I can teach you cooking good vegan food (mostly indian and mexican) and few words in Polish.

What I Can Share with Hosts

my hitchhiking stories,
spending time together,
my knowledge about the world
and good recipes from around the world

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Poland