Travelling since early 2017 (mostly Australia and Europe).

Most of my time in Australia I've spent in an amazing community where we lived together, cooked for everyone, played games, created and laughed together. This mind opening place brought me much love and happiness, difficult to describe in a few lines. It's an incredible experience, a sensation of belonging to a crazy creative and eccentric family of like minded people where everyone has space to be themselves.
I want to give this feeling to my guests and hosts around the world.

Thanks to amazing friends I've learnt to dumpster dive and try to do it whenever possible. I love this feeling of rescuing food from such a tragic ending and giving them a second chance.
Opening a dumpster is often like unwrapping presents under a Christmas tree !
Thanks to couchsurfing I met a great host in Bratislava (Malek) whose actions and permanent fight against food waste and irresponsible consumerism were truly inspiring. I try to keep in mind everyday my impact on my surroundings and aim towards diminishing it as much as possible (GoVegan guys !! 🕉🐋🏞💚)

Over the past years I've opened up and discovered myself much more. I feel peaceful and very lucky to stand where I am today. That's why it's great to meet travelers who can question your position or your values or your upbringing. By going out we manage to analyse what we have inside.

I like to study religions and still have so much to discover and understand. I'm not actively religious myself but I feel closest to a Tibetan buddhist monk than to a catholic priest if anything. I'm mostly into religious history and their consequences than the actual religious dogma. I get my values and ethics from life experience, not by thousands year old books written by a bunch of old dead men..

I love learning languages to open new possibilities of exchange.

One goal I have is to start a traveler's rest stop in Jordan. I was hoping to go back there around springtime 2019, settle in one of the many caves hidden in the desert around Petra and surroundings and start a little donation based coffee cave. However plans change and from one bad fall in Queensland I ended up being homeless on the Australian west coast.

Life goes on, now I'm back home, can host anyone who's visiting and who'd be willing to stay even up to a week and HELP IN THE GARDEN. We have a patch of land behind the house. Long term project would be to turn it into a livable veggie garden. It is everybody's mission to learn how to feed themselves without relying on processed products coming from the other side of the globe.
Strive to be minimalist as a choice before it becomes a necessity (which is a privilege)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Of course this is a way to travel cheaper, but if anything I'd sleep in a sleeping bag anywhere, that's not the point. Obviously I'll always try couchsurfing before sleeping on the sidewalk or in a park though.
I just get really excited when reading profiles, I get amazed by what I see ! I can spend hours doing it, selecting the correct hosts with whom I really want to connect. It's such a heartwarming feeling to receive a positive response and to get hosted in someone's house, or flat, or cave or wherever they're willing to host.

Through this I'm sure to get introduced to like minded hosts, genuinely interested in what I have to share, excited to hear about my travels, who probably have been through the same kind of situations and who are simply happy to help out a brother.
And what more beautiful gesture than to wholeheartedly offer your roof if you have the chance of having one.
That is most certainly something I will take on if I ever end up sedentary.
People are amazing and I'm always eager to meet new one.

Interests

I studied to become an aerospace engineering but left my diploma back home to become a hippie.
I like to study anything I found interesting, from religions and ancient history, to new sciences and technologies.
For now I want to gather skills and knowledge to be able to cultivate my garden and build sustainable living houses.
I'd love to travel to the Himalayas to get closer to Tibetan Buddhist communities and perhaps find the opportunity to spend some time in a temple, to deepen my practice of meditation and further abnegation, which I believe to be key to happiness.

• birds
• cooking
• coffee
• vegetarian
• vegan
• organic food
• meditation
• gardening
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• world music
• hiking
• backpacking
• martial arts
• swimming
• hitchhiking
• food
• permaculture
• community living
• techno
• ancient history
• farming
• religions
• freeganism
• didgeridoo
• japanese culture
• psytrance
• organic farming
• tibetan buddhism

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything from classical to metal, drumming circle and world music. Really interested in the power of music and the importance given to it by ancient civilizations. It is truly a natural medicine, which is why I consider it to be one of the most beautiful things to share. It's essentially a conveyor of emotions, it's the universal and timeless language. And inspired to humans by the sounds of nature !
Love books that are based on reality, science, history or religions. The power of books is also incredible, they are traces of our existence and transmitters of knowledge.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking !!
Hitchhiking race in Tasmania over 4 days with some friends, got stranded at a cross road for 18h, slept over night under an information shelter, got picked up the following day by an exorcist pastor.
Hitchhiking through Palestine to visit its beautiful cities and meet the incredible population of the West Bank.

Being held at gunpoint by the army in Jordan for sleeping under the stars.

What I Can Share with Hosts

2 hands that are very helpful in the kitchen if needed or to do anything around the house, a head full of memories and travel stories, good laughs. I'd love to help in a garden as well.
I believe in give and take, so anyone hosting me can be sure that wherever we meet again I will be available, if not with a roof, then with anything that can make their stay even more enjoyable.
We are building a vast and intricate network through these exchanges, multiplying all our possibilities together, we're making travelling more convenient and affordable for everyone, and for this I thank all of my hosts and relations in here. Let's share our resources people !

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Netherlands, Palestine, Peru, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, South Korea