"Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures." - Lovelle Drachman

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I was born in Regensburg, Germany and grew up in a small town near Regensburg. When I was 18, I moved into my first own apartment and lived there for 3 years while going to nursing school. At the age of 21 I decided to give up my apartment, sold most of my furniture, quit smoking and headed to Australia - a country 15,000 kilometers away that I had never been to. I spent one year working & travelling there before I came back to Germany to live with my grandparents for a few months, then lived in Dublin (Ireland) for half a year and then moved to London to work as a flight attendant for a year. After being stuck in Germany due to covid for 8 months I moved to Iceland and worked there as a nurse for 2.5 years. After that I spent 15 months full-time travelling Africa & Asia and now I’m currently living and working in New Zealand 🇳🇿

I've been a vegetarian since 2006

If you wanna find out more, here is my Instagram handle: annika.hrtl

I'm an openminded and spontaneous person and I like people who don't take life too seriously but are also able to have empathy and listen actively.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

I wanna meet new and interesting people, get to know different cultures, make new friends from all over the world, have fun, travel a lot.
It's all about having this special and amazing feeling of LIVING instead of just existing ✨
My dream is to visit every country in the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted:
Paul from France 🇫🇷
Marketa from Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Ajay from India 🇮🇳
Jiyoon from South Korea 🇰🇷
Arun from India 🇮🇳
Rini from Indonesia 🇮🇩
Jari from Finland 🇫🇮
Mareek from Estonia 🇪🇪
Michał from Poland 🇵🇱
Michael from Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Dan from the USA 🇺🇸
Regitze from Denmark 🇩🇰
Zeynep from Turkey 🇹🇷

I stayed with:
Giulio in London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Rían in Perth, Australia 🇦🇺
Femi in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
Allan in Cabramatta, Australia 🇦🇺
João in Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹
Reza in Guimarães, Portugal 🇵🇹
Jesse in Paris, France 🇫🇷
Rames in Zürich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Ram in Zürich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Mandeep in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Rajan in Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴
Mattias in Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰
Frankie in Swieqi, Malta 🇲🇹
Toshi in Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵
Yazafaris in BSB, Brunei 🇧🇳
Jehad in Doha, Qatar 🇶🇦
Haroon & Junaid in Manama, Bahrain 🇧🇭
Nidhal in Tunis, Tunisia 🇹🇳
AJ in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

Interessen

I'm interested in so many things. I just love to get to know other cultures and lifestyles.

• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• skydiving
• languages
• road trips
• english
• vegetarian food
• humor
• exploring
• living abroad
• australia
• meeting new people
• spanish
• honesty

Musik, Filme und Bücher

🎶 Music: Afrobeats, Punjabi/Hindi Pop
🎞 Movies: Lion, Tracks
📓 Books: Wild - From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

🚭 Quit smoking on 02/10/2016
🐨 Cuddled a koala in Perth, Western Australia
🎆 Experienced NYE in Sydney, Paris, London, NYC, Reykjavík, Budapest, Sarajevo & Madrid
🪂 Went skydiving in Cairns, Australia
🇿🇦 Went bungee jumping in South Africa
🦙 Went trekking with llamas in Liechtenstein
🐕 Drove a husky sled all by myself in the Finnish Lapland
💒 Attended 4 Punjabi weddings in India, one wedding in the Sahara (Africa) and one wedding in Brunei 🇧🇳
🌋 Roasted marshmallows and baked a pizza on the lava of an erupting volcano in Iceland 🇮🇸
🇦🇫 Rode a donkey in Afghanistan 🫏

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I could teach you some German

I'd like to learn a lot of things. Hard to list them here. Tell me what you can teach me, I'm always happy about having the chance to learn something new!

And of course there’s a hell of a lot of stories to share

Was ich mit Gastgebern teilen kann

Travel stories, life stories, food, laughs

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales, Western Sahara

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Australia, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom