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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Italian
  • Unspecified age, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • architect/builder
  • Educated by Masters, Jedi and the like, and also a bit of...
  • From Sydney
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy my new self employed life

ABOUT ME

This list is about 31 years long and open to much debate over a beer on a couch somewhere. Been loving living in Bondi of late, making the most of the beach by becoming a surf lifesaver an even more avid scuba diver and an ocean swimmer.

Less recently I completed an Erasmus year as an Architecture student in Holland where I have met some of the world personified as great friends who came to my endless Attic dinners and 300+ house parties.
Went to a funtastic high school full of goodness and jolly times. Got a beautiful family full of love that extends in all marital directions.
Been a host brother to about 12 international kiddies, most of whom I have been to visit in their homes around the universal traps.

Being Australian explains some things, but not everything, but I do love the sun and the beach.

PHILOSOPHY

It can be done and probably should.
Never say no and always keep on the go.
Education, experience and exchange...need anyone say more?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have hosted a few people in Sydney. Also stayed with a few cats when Lorenzo and I hitch-hiked from Rotterdam to Genova a few years ago. Good times. Except when we got stuck at a petrol station and had to sleep in my tent in the forrest nearby. Where was my couch then!?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Nothing better than meeting randoms and hearing tell tales and ludicrous 6 degrees.

Interests

Art and Architecture
Books, bikes and bodies.
Peoples, parties, pics and playtime.
Sounds, sun and summerfun.

  • cats
  • arts
  • books
  • architecture
  • education
  • beer
  • walking
  • partying
  • house parties
  • traveling
  • scuba diving
  • swimming
  • teaching
  • study abroad
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

This list is endless and open to debate over a beer on a couch somewhere.

Big electro/breaks/drumNbass/hiphop fan.

Gotta love the work of James Jarmusch, Wes Anderson and good old Mr Murry.

Reading is my contact sport and the game never ends and neither do the titles.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm am daily greatful to be as lucky as I am to be able to do the things I seem to be able to do: Travel, meet and greet, learn and eat.

Most amazing? Humm, thats a tough one....walking alone down a "Arrivals" ramp of a new city is always a massive buzz; my Erasmus year in Holland will take some topping, but I got time yet.

Waking up hung over on white cliffs looking at the sunrise over the mirrored Adriatic see with my buddy Mattia... Man...this list is endless and open to much debate....blah blah blah

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Samoa, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Italy, Netherlands

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