Hello Masked Travellers !

My name is Xavier, I am a 32 years old engineer from France specialised in thermal performance of buildings. I am also travel addicted and need to cure myself as often as work allow me to do so.

After having a year off again for a big project : the panamerican road, from Ushuaia to the top of Alaska. I am back home in Lyon and just started a new job. So I won't get hollidays this summer and decided to try hosting through Couchsurfing. At least I will get to hear your travels stories, unable to live mine !

I share a big flat right in the center of Lyon and I may have some proper rooms available if my flatmates are in hollidays ! I will be happy to show you around and enjoy this after Covid new freedom with you.

I am pretty new on couchsurfing (created this profile in 2012 but never used it much). Most of the time I volunteer for accommodation using HelpX or Workaway websites .That is how I found myself building an ecological sustainable, character filled straw bale house in a national park in Australia, how I had the opportunity to work on a dinosaur’s dorsal vertebra in a prehistoric museum. I worked in some other places around the world, building fences with aborigenal people, helping morocan women in a very tinny village, farming in Greece, working in hostels, restaurants, mooving furnitures, sorting macadamia nuts, etc.

I am not the « I need my comfort, beaches and tequila sunrise » kind of tourist but more someone trying to experience a country by living with the inhabitants and being part of a project.

Looking forward to meeting you

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Even If I am more used to work for accomodation (volunteering), I see in Couchsurfing a similar advantage : You get to meet local people. How can you pretend to know a place without knowing its inhabitants ? Plus, locals are obviously the best advisers of their surroundings.

Interests

• photography
• juggling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• snowboarding
• travel

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Let's keep some for the real discussion !

What I Can Share with Hosts

Some good beers I guess. And some weird debates.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Kenya, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Peru, Russian Federation, Serbia, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia