Job 💼 : environmentalist, tour guide and musician. I am currently working for the Tourist Office of Saint Gervais les Bains and I play country and folk music as a side hustle.

Hobbies 🙌🏻 : hiking and all sorts of mountain sports, discovering nature, observing the stars, learning about history and other cultures…

Music 🎼 : I sing, play guitar, mandolin, harmonica, and go to concerts. Feel free to share your classics with me (:

Personality 🧐 : People often find me super spacey and offbeat, and that’s true. The thing is, I do not agree with the consumerist and arrogant aspects of the modern world, so I just refuse to have those tendencies in my life, plain and simple.
I value independence, freedom of opinion and strict ethical values above all.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

🌍 I like traveling around to meet new people and reunite with friends. I think meeting new people and learning from them is the most important thing to have in mind while traveling abroad. Like when you go abroad, it's always better to stay with locals to discover 🧐

Also, I’d like to welcome people from all origins to my place. It’s always nice to have some company from time to time when living on your own. I want to share my place with people coming to visit the region 🗺️

Last but not least, I want to offer accommodation to as many people as possible while using CS to travel on my own. Before asking for anything in life, it’s good to offer it first to others. If I ask for hospitality, I must be able to offer it to my fellow humans. That’s my philosophy 🙌🏻

Interests

• birds
• books
• poetry
• education
• environment
• cooking
• cheese
• music
• country music
• folk music
• guitar
• metal music
• hiking
• skiing
• agriculture
• astronomy
• cartography
• ecology
• entomology
• environmental studies
• geology
• history
• science
• historic sites
• nature
• harmonica
• heavy metal
• meeting new people
• sustainable development
• scouting
• pedagogy
• dark humor
• hard rock
• punk rock
• agroecology
• blues music
• global warming
• celtic music
• celtic culture
• street performance

Music, Movies, and Books

🎵 🎶 Music is an universal language, a medication for the soul.

I listen to diverse but specific styles such as :

rock’n roll 🎸 , blues 🎷 , country 🪕, soul 🎙️, Folk ✍🏻 , punk/hard rock and metal music ☠️🤘🏻 , but also french classic songs 🇫🇷, salsa 🇨🇺, flamenco 💃, bossa nova 🇧🇷 , US hip hop 🇺🇸 , instrumental jazz 🎺 , armenian traditional music 🇦🇲 , irish rebel songs 🇮🇪 , and even eastern orthodox chants ☦️ . I’d love to discover new styles.

Favorite songs ever : Bob Dylan - Don’t think twice it’s all right ❤️‍🩹
Brother Dege - Too Old to Die Young 💀
Jackson C. Frank - Blues run the game 🎲

Favorite books : Alexandre Dumas - Les Trois Mousquetaires ⚔️ ⚜️
E. P. Lovecraft - The Call of Chtulu 🐙 🌊
Antoine de Saint Exupéry - Terre des Hommes 🏜️ 🌍

Favorite movies : Sergio Leone - Il buono, Il brutto, Il cattivo 🔫
Christopher Nolan - Interstellar 🚀
Michel Hazanavicius - OSS 117 🥴🇫🇷

History nerd here ! 🤓

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Ascending the Dômes de Miage with my best friends 🏔️

- Wandering through brazilian cerrado alone at night to observe the stars 🔭

- Obtaining my driving license after five years and 100+ hours of driving lessons 🚘

- Hitchhiking for thousands of kilometers all around France 🗺️

- Starting my side hustle as a solo artist 🎸

- Working in the environmental sector to participate in mitigation and adaptation to climate change 🌳

Teach, Learn, Share

👋🏻 If you come to my place, I’ll take some time with you to visit the the town and the Valley, to share a bit of my day-to-day life. My availability will depend of work, sports, family etc, of course.

I can teach to others how to play harmonica 🪗 , guitar 🎸 and how to recognize the stars in the night sky ✨

I’d like to improve my guitar, singing and harmonica skills and/or anything you would share with me. I like learning to cook new dishes as well 👨‍🍳 📈

All kinds of people are welcome, especially musicians 🤘🏻

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share stories, music, dishes... I like to share experiences with people in general 🤝🏻

Oh also I don't drink alcohol neither do I smoke 🚬🍷🙅🏼‍♂️

I don't mind other people drinking, but I do not tolerate any kind of smoking, weather it’s tobacco, marijuana or whatever 🚭

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, Germany