✪ ABOUT ME
Visited more than 150 countries and who always looking to travel somewhere and especially to unusual travel destinations, to discover all the secrets of our beautiful planet, with friends or independently. More enjoying and comfortable with cities than countryside when traveling, but nature is sometimes interesting to see too.

VERY curious and open minded guy who can be both unserious and very serious. Get´s easily excited especially when talking about specific topics.

Please notice that all 370 of my profile photos can´t be seen in the mobile app, only around half of them. Check them all in a regular browser on your mobile or laptop.

✪ MADE IN TAIWAN - GREW UP IN FINLAND - LIVED ABROAD
Made in Taiwan, grew up in Central Ostrobothnia, 500 km North West from the capital of Finland in Western Finland as Swedish speaking Finn since a baby. Dual citizenship, both Finnish and Taiwanese (ROC - Republic of China) , therefore having currently three valid passports, two Finnish and one Taiwanese. Lived and worked abroad in different countries as Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Thailand and Turkey between the years of 2002-2007. Lived in the capital of Finland, Helsinki, since the beginning of the year 2007, after moving from Spain.

✪ NON DRINKER/SMOKER AND PETS
I don´t drink alcohol or smoke. Enjoys the nightlife with good company and with good electronic music (of course without alcohol). No pets at home since a bit of allergic to them.

✪ CHEESE IS WEIRD BUT I LOVE FOOD!
Things has changed, though in the past, I never drank anything which is black or ate anything red. Still struggling with cheese, but ate my first pizza when I was 18 years old and had my fifth hamburger in my life in the summer of 2014, since that I´ve been eating tens of them. I´ll tell you the story behind if you´re interested to know why! Even though this, I love food over all! Don´t wonder why I am usually double as slow to drink or eat compared to other people, I just wanna enjoy the experience!

✪ CURRENT AND PAST WORKS
Been working with marketing and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) -strategies, -customer analysis and -IT technical solutions in the Nordics in one of the world´s largest leisure travel group. Previous working experience as publisher and editor in chief for own made small newspapers; IT -sales person, -technician, -teacher, -freelance reporter, -company owner; webmaster, junior freelance reporter; net café & bar owner; tourleader for Nordic people abroad in five countries etc.

✪ PHILOSOPHY
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: get experience, be open minded, be curious, feel, taste, travel and live now, tomorrow might be too late! Never give up!

✪ NEWSPAPER ARTICLES / INTERVIEWS ABOUT ME
★ Read more about my travel experience in North Korea, an interview of me written in the largest Helsingin Sanomat -newspaper in Finland 31:th of August 2012. In Finnish (web site - original).
https://www.hs.fi/matka/art-2000002555710.html

★ Read more about my travel and couchsurfing experience around the world, an interview of me written in the local Keskipohjanmaa -newspaper in Finland where I grew up, 17:th of November 2013. In Finnish (pdf - original, bit.ly quick link to my dropbox).
http://bit.ly/1xJPbWy

★ "Sohvalla" (On The Couch) -tv show on Video in Finnish, about Couchsurfing. Interview of me about Couchsurfing experiences between the following times: 5:46-12:54 if you don´t want to check out the whole video.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/127163425

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I heard about CouchSurfing.com from one of my best friends in the year of 2010 and because it sounded interesting, I decided to join it too!

✪ COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Currently I am an experienced Couchsurfer and getting more and more experiences every day. I have hosted more than 60 people, surfing in more than 25 places, traveled with several Couchsurfers as well as organizing around 150 events during 2013-2016 and attended to several events around the world. Made up my profile in May 2010. When traveling I´ve been mostly stayed at the hotels, sometimes in hostels and a few times stayed at someones apartment/couch. Looking forward to more great experiences that CouchSurfing community will bring me in the future! Until now I have only very good experience of the following activities:

✪ HOSTING IN HELSINKI, FINLAND

63. Kohei Norota 07-08/17 - Tokyo, Japan - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/kohei.norota
62. Alex Miller 06/17 - London, United Kingdom
61. Norbert Szilágyi 06/17 - London, United Kingdom - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/globalcitizen95
60. Chris Bachmann 07/15 - Frankfurt, Germany - https://www.couchsurfing.com/users/1717854
59. Anıl Ünlü 06/15 - Ankara, Turkey - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/anilunlu70
58. Tushar Malik 06/15 - New Delhi, India - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/tushar1990
57. Guido Blugerman 06/15 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/bluger
56. Okan Okyay 05/15 - Lüleburgaz, Thracia/Turkey - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/piogi
55. John Yeung 05/15 - Toronto, Canada - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/johnyeung
54. Peng "Lee" Li 05/15 - Beijing, China - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/lipeng2095
53. Zhiyou "Kim" Jin 05/15 - Beijing, China - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/zhiyoujin
52. Steven Carluer 05/15 - Paris, France - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/stevenca
51. Kaushal Karkhanis 02/15 - Mumbai, India - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/kaushal

50. Alexander "Alex" Mühlendorfer 02/15 - Vienna, Austria - https://www.couchsurfing.com/users/1006854294/profile
49. Lucyna "Lucy" Kruszynska 02/15 - Elk, Poland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/krystian.kruszynski
48. Krystian Kruszynski 02/15 - Warsaw, Poland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/krystian.kruszynski
47. Benoit "Ben" Luisier 01/15- Lausanne, Switzerland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/fabienne_benoit
46. Fabienne Rohner 01/15 - Lausanne, Switzerland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/fabienne_benoit
45. Mark Billy Yang 01/15 - Taipei, Taiwan - https://www.couchsurfing.com/users/1153223
44. Carlos Melo 11/14 - Porto / Portugal - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/cvmelo
43. Xavier Allard 10/14 - Belgium/France - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/maitrecortex
42. Eric Bolikowski 10/14 - Stavanger, Norway - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/phantasmate
41. Daniel Bolek 08/14 - Havířov, Czech Republic - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/danielbolek

40. Roman Sydor 08/14 - Lviv, Ukraine - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/roma-sydor
39. Roman Ilkiv 08/14 - Lviv, Ukraine - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/romanlvivyanin
38. Chris Michaut 08/14 - Paris, France - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/christophermichaut
37. Mihai Candet 07/14 - Iasi, Romania - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/mcandet
36. Kohei Norota 07/14 - Tokyo, Japan - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/kohei.norota
35. Polyanna Rocha 05/14 - Oslo, Norway / Brazil - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/polyandtomas
34. Tomas Bjerved 05/14 - Oslo, Norway - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/bjerved
33. Ricard Polls Boadas 04/14 - Girona, Catalonia - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ricardrostit
32. Roberto Bautista 04/14 - Sevilla, Spain - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/kiyosoyelrobe
31. Ruben Arnal 12/13 - Valencia, Spain - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/diavoleindrumx

30. Lei Zhang 10/13 - Qingdao, China - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/sixzi
29. Husam Chadat 09/13 - Damascus, Syria - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/mchusam
28. Christiaan du Randt 09/13 - Stellenbosch, South Africa - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/hemes
27. Youngsoo Yang 08/13 - Seoul, South Korea - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ysyang1213
26. Ethan Folk 08/13 - Seattle, Washington, USA - ttps://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ethfol
25. Norbert Szilágyi 08/13 - Salonta, Romania / Hungary - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/globalcitizen95
24. Kuan-Ting "Lear" Ho 08/13 - Taipei, Taiwan - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/learho
23. Corrado Zhocci Hansen 08/13 - Trieste, Italy / Denmark - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/aksel07
22. Emmanuelle "Manue" Lhermitte 07/13 - Clisson, France - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/emmanuelle.lhermitte
21. Stéphane Thomas 07/13 - Clisson, France - http://stephanemanueentandem.wordpress.com/

20. César Dezfuli Rello 06/13 - Madrid, Spain - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/cesar.d.rello
19. Mody Salman 05/13 - Diwaniyah, Iraq -https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/modysalman
18. Gert Danielsen 04/13 - Oslo, Norway - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/gertceville-danielsen
17. Álvaro Sánchez 02/13 - Madrid, Spain - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/aalvaro
16. Jakub Kaminski 10/12 - Warsaw, Poland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/skubik
15. Adam Sielatycki 09/12 - Warsaw, Poland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/a.g.adams
14. Konrad Rudnik 09/12 - Warsaw, Poland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/kondi-bondi007
13. Igor de Almeida 09/12 - Recife, Brazil - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/iguinhoz
12. Roland Bisewski 08/12 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/roland.erra
11. Luca Crivellari 08/12 - Milano, Italy - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/luca.crivellari

10. Yosef Yip 08/12 - Toronto, Canada - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/yosefff
9. Joachim B. 08/12 - Düsseldorf, Germany - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/joachim-b
8. Petja Stipanovic 07/12 - Novo Mesto, Slovenia - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/petja-slovenia
7. Rod Afonso 06/12 - Caxias do Sul, Brazil - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/rod.rod
6. Daniel "Dani" Dobre 05/12 - Galati, Romania - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/daniel.dobre
5. Simon Gripner 11/11 - Göteborg, Sweden - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/smingu
4. Martin Ryan 08/11 - Montpellier, France France - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/jumpingjackflash
3. Helen Liu 07/11 - Shanghai, China - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/chaochaode
2. Christian "Chris" Höck 07/11 - Wien, Austria - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/neveatears
1. Kwai "Kobe" Leung 08/10 - Hong Kong, China - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/hkkobe

✪ SURFING WORLDWIDE

27. Bright Munsa 12/17 - Livingstone, Zambia - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/bright-munsa
26. Ward Jacobs 12/17 - Lilongwe, Malawi - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ward.jacobs
25. Donald Massyn 12/17 - Johannesburg, South Africa - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/donald.massyn
24. Ninyo Lozada 12/17 - Maseru, Lesotho - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ninyolozada
23. Peter Prix 09/16 - Doha, Qatar - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/peterpausk
22. Abdul Qadir 09/16 - Al Khor, Qatar - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/abdul.qadir.abid
21. Chris Michaut 12/15 - Paris, France - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/christophermichaut

20. Andrei Shestackov 09/15 - Yekaterinburg, Russia - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/simonscat
19. Kadri Teider & Leif Neuvonen 12/14 & 09/15 - London, England - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/kteider
18. Attila Nagy 09/14 - Mitrovica, Kosovo - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/attilanagy1
17. Jakub Kaminski 05/14 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/skubik
16. Artёm Titov 05/14 - Kaliningrad, Russia - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/arteom.fen
15. Mateusz Rybicki 04/14 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/mat87
14. Samwell Otieno 04/14 - Mombasa, Kenya - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/samwellotieno
13. Tim Larsen 02/14 - London, England - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/tim.larsen
12. Mohsin Gillani 09/13 - Lahore, Pakistan - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/mohsin.gillani
11. Bahadur "Baha" Aly 09/13 - Karachi, Pakistan - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/baha.aly

10. Ignacio "Nacho" de Salterain 12/12 - Montevideo, Uruguay - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/zvuho_nacho
9. Ezequiel & Liesje 12/12 - Buenos Aires, Argentina -
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ezequiel & https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/l_in_b
8. Javier Rodriguez 12/12 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/javisrodriguez82
7. Anton Gurakov & Alexandra "Sasha" 10/12 - Kiev, Ukraine - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/anton7
6. Abdulmagid "Mego" Yakoube 09/12 - Tripoli, Libya - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/megolibya
5. Marcel Thannhäuser 11/11 & 04/13 - Berlin, Germany - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/derthanne
4. Helmy Ibrahim 10/11 - New York, USA - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/why_me0202
3. Alex Nickodem & Jeremy Enright 09/11 - Arlington, Virginia, USA -
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/drago & https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/whoameye
2. Alexander Kolyada & Yuliya Kaliada 10/10 - Minsk, Belarus -
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/alex_kolyada & https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ulechka
1. Johannes Weller 09/10 - Chișinău, Moldova - https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/hannes_maximus

✪ TRAVELED WORLDWIDE TOGETHER
★ Johannes Nygård Estonia, Italy, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/dsgn81
★ Markku Pyykölä Estonia, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/adderi
★ Sebastian Slotte Belarus, Estonia, Cyprus, North. Cyprus (TRNC)
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/helmet
★ Mikko Ekström China, Democratic People´s Republic of Korea
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/mikko_ekstrom
★ Maxim Egorov Estonia, Russia, Sweden, Thailand
https://www.couchsurfing.com/
★ Miia Pajala China, Gambia, Iceland, Greece, Myanmar, Philippines, Russia, Senegal, Spain, Tibet, Thailand, Scotland, Andorra, France
https://www.couchsurfing.com/

✪ MEETING AND ORGANIZING/HOSTED COUCHSURFING EVENTS AND OTHER STUFF
in the local Couchsurfing community by attending the Helsinki CS Weekly Meetups (since July 2012) almost weekly to meet great new people!
★ Have organized and hosted the Couchsurfing Helsinki Weekly Summer Picnic´s and Couchsurfing Helsinki Weekly Meetups weekly (since February 2013 until June 2016).
★ Been helping the local Helsinki CS community to organize the CS Birthday Celebrations on the second weekend 13-16th of June 2013 with 100 Couchsurfers who joined the party as well as in the year of 12-15th of June 2014 and 9-12th of June 2016. Weekend of Love event in 2015 from 24-26th of July.
★ Been helping the local Helsinki CS community to organize also the CS Christmas Party - Back to the 50´s! on 7th of December 2013 with 170 Couchsurfers who joined the party, the 6th of December 2014 with also 170 Couchsurfers as well as 20th of November with 130 Couchsurfers.
★ Been helping the local Helsinki CS community to organize the CS Weekend of Love Celebrations and Midsummer Night´s Dream - Theatre Theme Party on the second weekend 12-15th of June 2014 with more than 50 Couchsurfers who joined the party.
★ One of the organizer to the Couchsurfing Summer Madness - Weekend Cottage Camp with 120 Couchsurfers. Hauho, Hämeenlinna, Finland. 15th to 17th of August 2014.
★ Been designing the local Couchsurfing Helsinki community logo
★ Attended to local Couchsurfing meetups in Copenhagen (Denmark - 04/16), St Juliens (Malta 05/15), Belgrade (Serbia - 09/14), Budapest (Hungary - 09/14), Saint Petersburg (White Nights - Russia - 06/14 & 06/15), Bangkok (Thailand -03/14), London (England - 02/14), Playa del Carmen (Mexico - 12/13 / picture below), Barcelona (Spain - 07/13), Copenhagen (Denmark - 05/13), Stockholm (Sweden - 04/13 & 05/18), Oslo (Norway - 03/13), Montevideo (Uruguay - 12/12) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil - 12/12).
★ Beta tester of the Couchsurfing.org web site.
★ Administrator of the the Helsinki Couchsurfing Facebook page - Like the page!
https://www.facebook.com/CouchsurfingHelsinki
★ Moderator of the Helsinki Couchsurfing Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/54040862957/

Interests

✪ TRAVELING IS MY PASSION
Traveling to different cities and especially countries/autonomous areas since "collecting" them by pinning them on the map, trying to visit as many countries/autonomous/dictatorship areas as I can during my lifetime. So far I have traveled in 152 countries. Ranking by NomadMania.com is by following in March 2024: Overall 555; NomadMania; UN 148; UN+ 170; TCC 182; WHS 200; MTP 477.

✪ OTHER INTERESTS
Likes different kind of small adventures, reading magazines, travel literatures, local and international cuisines (e.g. Nordic, Mexican, Italian, Middle-East, Greek, Spanish, Indian, Nepalese, Slavic, Japanese, Chinese, Thai etc.), electronics and gadgets, computers (Mac/PC), photographing (shooting/editing) and video recording/editing, listening to music (more into electronic music like electronic dance music, techno, dance, house, trance), watch a nice movie/tv-series (mostly into action, also documentaries, drama, comedy and horror is okey) or go to cinema/musical/theater, fashion, gym, biking/spinning/indoor cycling- and Bodypump -classes.

Likes trains (especially fast ones like Shinkansen in Japan, Maglev in China), airplanes (especially big ones like jumbo B747 and superjumbo A380 and the newest A350), cruises/boat trips, collecting eurocoins from EMU (European Monetary Union) countries, collecting a local souvenir and a bank note from countries I visit. Collecting also a newspaper from a country where the country has it´s own alphabet (e.g. Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Thai, Hindi, Greek, Arabic, Ethiopian etc.).

• photography
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• cycling
• geopolitics
• languages
• adventure travel
• food
• gadgets
• gym
• spinning
• tv-series
• apple products

Music, Movies, and Books

✪ MUSIC
Enjoys listening to electronic music like techno, trance and dance as long as there's a lot of loud bass! :D. Therefore I do love to visit clubs playing that kind of musics, e.g. Ministry of Sounds Club (London), Summer Sound Festival (the biggest electronic music festival in the Nordics, Helsinki July 2012), or musicals (e.g. Broadway etc.).

✪ MOVIES
Likes mostly action, comedy and drama movies, sometimes horror too. Documentaries, travel related tv programs and tv-series. Likes to go to cinema as well.

✪ BOOKS
Not much of a book reader but likes travel literature and guide books.

✪ MAGAZINES
Reading mostly travel, men's lifestyle/fashion/fitness, gadgets/electronics/computer and design/interior magazines.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

✪ MAP STATISTICS

★ Visited 152 countries in the world´s 5 continent (by 04/2022: https://bit.ly/3MkHHkF or https://bit.ly/3JZLNNG)
★ Visited all capitals and countries in Europe.
★ Visited all countries in Asia except the Maldives.
★ Visited states in the US: https://bit.ly/3MhPX4W
★ Some of my European flight routes: https://bit.ly/3xCd0Dw
★ Some of my international flight routes: https://bit.ly/3ExsBWd

✪ MAKE YOUR OWN MAPS
★ http://douweosinga.com/projects/visited
★ http://bighugelabs.com/map.php

✪ AUTONOMOUS REPUBLICS VISITED
Visited in addition to the following autonomous republics/province/areas/territories or so called ”independent states”: Republic of Abhazia (Georgia), Republic of Artsakh (former Nagorno-Karabakh - Azerbaijan), Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), Republic of Kosovo (Serbia), Kurdistan (Iraq), Palestine (Israel), Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Moldova), Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka), Taiwan (Republic of China), Tibet (China), Republic of Vevčani (Macedonia-FYROM) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Cyprus) as well in the micronation Freetown Christiania (Denmark) and Sealand (England).

✪ OTHER AMAZING THINGS I´VE DONE/EXPERIENCED
★ Visited the 151 countries and five continents.
★ Lived in six different countries in two continents abroad.
★ Experienced gun shots and bomb blasts around me in Baghdad, Iraq!
★ Experienced traffic police to shoot with a gun in the air, to clear up the traffic jam, in Mogadishu, Somalia and Baghdad, Iraq!
★ Armed robbery occured just five minutes before arriving to the airport by taxi in Pakistan when two motorbike stopped the vehicle and snatched my bag including my laptop, passports, credit cards and cash money. Luckily someone found my passport on the road a few days after and sended me my documents and I could continue my roundtrip into Afghanistan, otherwise my trip would have ended.
★ Experienced a never ending jungle trek for me in Sumatra, Indonesia, where I ended up shaking hands and fed the orang utans in their home hoods.
★ Feeling the speed 420 km/h inside of world´s fastest high speed train at Shanghai Maglev in China.
★ Flew with the biggest commercial super jumbo Airbus 380 aircraft from New York to Frankfurt.
★ Enjoyed the ashtonishing view and survived without accidents at the enormous gas crater "The Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan´s desert.
★ Informed hundreds of travelers in Thailand about the terrible tsunami that happend in Phuket the day after in December 2004. Helped with evacuation at Bangkok airport during the new years night 2004-2005.
★ Helicopter sightseeing tour above New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Capetown, Dubai and Annapurna BaseCamp.
★ Walking to the "Devil´s Throat", helicopter tour above the Iguazu Falls and having a Iguazu shower by speedboat on the border to Brazil and Argentina.
★ Driving a car on the highway in Turkey when suddenly a bus turned aggresively to my lane to avoid an accident on his lane and causing almost a frontal accident with my car.
★ Making roundtrip in the world´s most isolated country North Korea.
★ Feeling the freezing cold winter in Kokkola, Western Finland, with down to -38 C and sweating hot temperature up to +48 C during the Golden Triangle roundtrip in New Delhi/Agra/Jaipur, India.
★ Visited one of the world's most spectacular Roman ruins Leptis Magna, Sabratha and Cyrene in Libya.
★ Understanding the tragedy with sightseeing in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and ghost town of Pripyat in Ukraine.
★ Jumped off the plane (tandem) in 4,6 km (15 000 feet) in Queenstown, New Zealand with an amazing view. Bungeejump from a bridge between the borders in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Paragliding in Pokhara, Nepal.
★ Iceland's unique natural wonders as geysirs, glaciers, volcanos, northern lights, hot springs, waterfalls and rich sortiment of new culinary experiences with tastes of horse, whale, puffin etc.
★ Had a wonderful experience by staying in casa particulares (private homes) practising my Spanish language while in the fascinating capital of Cuba, Havanna and the picturesque and colourful village of Trinidad.
★ Did Umrah (Islamic pilgrimage) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
★ Roadtripping almost 10 000 km alone by car for 1 month in Western Russia.
★ Brought medicines to the Polish/Ukrainian border and brought 6 Ukrainian refugees to Finland by minibus (1 to Lithuania) in March 2022.
★ Trans-Siberian Railway with several stops along the way from west to the east.

Teach, Learn, Share

✪ TEACH
I can introduce you to the Nordic languages (Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, except Icelandic), how to improve your computer skills (Mac/PC) and plan your future travels or/and how to move around to/from Helsinki to visit the neigbour cities and/or countries.

✪ LEARN
Would love to practise some more Russian and Spanish language with someone that´s their native language, I know just the basics. Russian and Spanish small talk practice would be fine with me ONLY IF you know only the beginners English! Otherwise I am too shy to speak! ;) Keen to learn some basics of Arabic and Chinese too!
Would love to learn some more about video editing on computers (Mac/PC) and basic photographing techniques and editing on Mac/PC.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Show around the capital of Finland if I have time. Share my knowledge of travel experience. Help to make travel plans in Finland or nearby countries like Russia/Estonia/Sweden/Norway/Denmark.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, North Korea, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Wales, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Åland Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey

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