Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm interested in meeting & connecting with people from all over the world

Interests

Travelling is my number 1 interest.
Hiking & Trekking
Literature.
Cinema.
Astrology.
Chess.

• literature
• flying
• movies
• chess
• traveling
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing
• tourism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite films:
"Splendor in the grass" (Elia Kazan) Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty.
"The ballad of Cable Hogue" (Sam Peckinpah) Jason Robards, Stella Stevens.

Almost all films by John Huston, David Lean, François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Elia Kazan, Max Ophüls, Louis Malle, John Ford, John Schlesinger, Roman Polanski, Sam Peckinpah, Sydney Pollack, Sydney Lumet, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen.

Favourite actors: Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Dustin Hoffmann, Burt Lancaster, Steve Mc Queen.
Favourite actresses: Natalie Wood, Kim Novak, Claudia Cardinale, Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner.

I also like Film Noir. And we'll always have "Casablanca", of course.

Favourite TV series:

House of Cards, Edge of Darkness, The Thorn Birds, Shogun, Kung-Fu, Man about the house, Robin's Nest. From RTVE: Fortunata y Jacinta, Los Gozos y las sombras, La Regenta.

Favourite writers (I'll cite at least one book by them):

Henry Miller (The Air-Conditioned Nightmare), Hermann Hesse (Demian) Hisako Matsubara (Cranes at Dusk), Stefan Zweig (Letter from an Unknown Woman), Yukio Mishima (The Golden Pavilion), Jules Verne (The children of Captain Grant), Mark Twain (The adventures ofTom Sawyer), Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island).

William Shakespeare (Hamlet), Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote), Joanot Martorell (Tirant lo Blanc), Charles Dickens (Bleak House), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov).

Poets: Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman.

Other books: Tao Te Ching, Baghavad Gita.

Music:

Classical, Jazz, Pop... Rachmaninov, George Gershwin, Michael Franks, Baroque music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing Mount Fuji in Japan (Elevation, 3,776 m (12,388 ft) overnight to watch the sunrise in the land of the Rising Sun :-)

I did the same in Mount Teide ( highest peak in Spain in Tenerife, Canary Islands). Mt. Teide kind of lunar landscape is singularly impressive.

Watching a total solar eclipse in the desert of Libya, March 2006.

Taking a ship in Tokyo to the Ogasawara Islands (very small islands 800 km south Tokyo) I swimmed with dolphins (and sharks!) there.

Sleeping in a buddhist monastery in my trekking to the Everest base camp in Nepal.

To awake the 1st of January 2001 (1st day of the New Millenium) in a very small village in the Atlas mountains (Morocco). The second night I slept in a mountain hut and the next day I climbed to the top of Djebel Toubkal, the highest peak in Northern Africa. I went to Marrakech by train (Barcelona-Algeciras , took a ferry to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, then Tangier - Casablanca by night train & local train to Marrakech. It's easier getting there by plane but I liked doing it this way :-)

Flying over the Grand Canyon (USA) by helicopter.

Playing a chess game vs the World Chess Champion, the Indian Vishwanathan Anand, in Zürich, summer2009. I lost :-)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Catalan and Spanish.
I also can teach:
Chess,
Astrology.
I can be (if you wish) your guide (or helping to that purpose) in Barcelona and surroundings. We can hang out together.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach Spanish and Catalan.
I can teach chess, astrology...

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Libya, Liechtenstein, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain