I am “retired” violinist and a photographer

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Trying to get to know a little bit of the world.
Meeting new people and experiencing different cultures.

Interests

Music, Photography, Cinema, Wildlife, History, Politics, Geography, Science, Literature, Cooking, Sports...

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Brahms, Sibelius, Mozart, Bach, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Steve Reich, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Saint Saens, Dvorak, Paganini, Wieniawski, Smetana, Rimsky Korsakov, Mussorgsky...

The Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Dire Straits, Carlos Santana, Joe Cocker, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Ten Years After, BB King, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull... Oasis, Blur, Kasabian, Gorillaz, The Fratellis, Temples, Tame Impala, Pond, Gogol Bordello, Taraf De Haidouks, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Gary Clark Jr, Melodys Echoe Chamber...

Jazz, gipsy, folk, funk, bluegrass, blues, rock, indie, post-rock, rock... pretty much everything

Movies: Big Lebowski, Snatch, Ghost Dog, Forrest Gump, The Lord of The Rings, Inception, Shutter Island, Pulp Fiction, Django, Inglorious Bastards, The Wristcutters, Fight Club...

Books: Dostoievski - The Gambler, Crime and Punishment, The Dream of A Ridiculous Man. Gogol - St. Petersburg's Tales. Jack London - White Fang, The Call of The Wild. Yamamoto Tsunetomo - Hagakure. Kafka - Metamorphosis. Tolstoi - Khadji Murat. Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises Calvino - Cosmicomics

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Volunteering in Ukraine
Slept in the Thar desert
Witnessed a monsoon and a desert sand storm

Countries I’ve Visited

Cabo Verde, England, India, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cabo Verde, Portugal