CURRENT MISSION

trying not to lose each other, nor our backpack in the gigantic airports!

ABOUT ME

some peculiarities about us,...

Melissa: "Why I choose to travel with Ann? She can say the alphabet in reverse, and she can even do it with her eyes closed! When we went to the zoo, she tried to imitate a sea lion and suddenly we were surrounded by lots of pinguins! Luckily pinguins are our favourite animal..."

Ann: "Why I love to travel with Melissa? Her orientation skills are zero! Give her a map and a compass, and she'll get lost..., but tell her where to find chocolate and she doesn't even need a map to get there! During our visit to the zoo, she tried to imitate a pinguin and suddenly we were surrounded by sea lions..."

PHILOSOPHY

"Er bestaat niets, dat niet iets anders aanraakt" (Jeroen Brouwers)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We don't have any experience on couchsurfing yet, but we heard so much about it that we're keen and enthousiastic to discover it for ourselves. Are there really people so nice (or maybe a little crazy) to offer complete strangers a couch?

Apparently there are! Some amazing people offered us their couches and even comfy pillows! It s a great way to meet the nicest locals! :)

Interests

Ann is a walking concert agenda! Every spare minute she goes jumping around at a concert/festival...

During summer Melissa guides backpackers in her hometown, she tells them the stories that aren't published.

• animals
• singing
• concerts
• festivals
• chocolate
• sauna
• walking
• traveling
• music
• backpacking

Music, Movies, and Books

Mel: Léon (L. Besson), Kin dza dza, La Meglio Gioventu, Water (S. Anand), Warriors (P. Kosminsky), Lost in translation, Shooting dogs, Le Huitième jour, Two days in Paris, La grande vadrouille, ... // Arsenal (no not the soccer team!), Lykke Li, Boban Markovic, Kings of Leon...// G.G. Marquez, A. de Saint-Exupéry, A. Nothomb, H. Murakami, K. Hosseini, K. Abdollah, A. Oz,...

Ann: Instinct, LOTR, The Sixth sense, Der Untergang, La vita è bella, The Pianist, Twilight, ...// Milow, Novastar, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, Enya, Mika, Beatles, Sarah Bettens, Sinead 'o Connor, Neil Young, Luka Bloom, ...// A. Horowitz, A. Nothomb, H. Haasse, J. Gaarder, S. Meier, D. Tartt, I. McEwan, J.R.R. Tolkien, S. Marai, K. Hosseini, U. Eco,...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- ending up in a sauna with naked Chinese in Beijing (China)
- politely refusing a lift in the back of a funeral car in Ukraine
- Walking on a frozen sea on high heels in Talinn (Estonia)
- Being kicked off the bus in Siena in the middle of the night, for no particular reason (Italy)
- Avoiding an attack of local youth by cowardly hiding behind a taller/ bigger guy in Geneva (Switzerland)
- Singing the whole chorus of the Sound of Music in Salzburg (Austria)
- ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, Thailand