CURRENT MISSION

to live, love, learn, and play

ABOUT ME

How reliable are a person's self-descriptions? :-)

Well... I think I'm gregarious, helpful, energetic, impulsive, inquisitive, creative, practical, and independent-minded. I love meeting people, hearing stories, and discussing ideas.

I just recently left a perfectly good job to run my own projects. Take a look at Impromptu, a musical theatre group I set up; and the blog of a recent road trip I made in connection with my here+now project.

I love good food, but I'm a crap cook. :-)

PHILOSOPHY

How long have you got...? :-)
I suppose it hinges on this: the universe is basically a friendly and generous place. So be happy, and play your part in it!

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm confident I can help in lots of ways. By offering a couch (actually two beds), for a start.
And I once put on a trip round Amsterdam's canals in my boat Y, a 100-year-old, solid iron salmon fishing boat. That was fun and I will do it again; watch the Amsterdam group.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just one occasion, rescued by a couchsurfer in Maastricht after I escaped from Nazi Germany in July 2007. It's a long story...

I did lots and lots of hitchhiking in my teens and twenties. I used to watch the Citroen DSes go by and wish they would stop to pick me up. Now I drive my own Citroen DS and I pick up every hitchhiker I see - but there don't seem to be as many as before; perhaps people are warier of strangers than they used to be. :-) If you ever see a bright yellow Citroen DS Break, stick your thumb out!

兴趣

People: music, singing, dance, theatre, language, culture, behaviour, psychology, philosophy
Places: travel, history, architecture, nature, swimming
Things: technology, evolution, design, the kind of food I could never cook

• culture
• singing
• architecture
• design
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• running
• boating
• technology
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• music
• guitar
• piano
• fishing
• swimming
• history
• psychology
• hitchhiking

音乐、电影和书籍

Yes, yes, and yes. Oh yes.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Too many to count... I'm only allowed one? The first that comes to mind right now is when I stood amongst the huge church bells of Amsterdam's Westerkerk tower while a friend, Boudewijn Zwart the carillonneur, was playing Elvis Presley songs on them

教，学，和分享

I can share these skills:
- choosing/using Linux
- playing saxophone + mandolin
- dancing salsa
- maintaining a Citroen DS

I want to learn to:
- play guitar, double bass and piano better
- dance in 7/8 and other exotic time signatures
- cook simply but well

我游览过的国家

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Spain, United States

我居住过的国家

France, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, United Kingdom