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Overview

  • 49 references 29 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch; learning English, French, Spanish
  • 45, Other
  • Member since 2007
  • Homework.
  • Occupational therapist
  • From Antwerp / Belgium
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Working at the chicken shack.

ABOUT ME

I am laid back. Praised by friends for my exceptional humor and to be modest about that. I have got interesting interests and I like my friends. But actually, I don't like talking about myself. If you want to know me, just say helo..

I live together with my girlfriend in an old house at the countryside near forest and fields. Cows are our neighbours and it's a paradise for walkers and cyclists. Also the camino to Compostela is passing by the house.

PHILOSOPHY

Everyday is a new day. Whenever you want, you can change direction and bring something new in your life. That's why I enjoy to be in new situations.
I am not the man of big words or blabla. No big deal - easy going. But actually - what is my personal philosophy? I just live this life - I 'try' not to think about it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As a couchsurfer, I hope to meet people and to discover a country in a different way - away from the guided trails.
Back home, people from over the world are welcome at my place. I invite them to bring a bit of their culture to my house - I will show them my city (or even my big big country)and may my house and me inspirate them to keep on travelling in a couchsurfing-spirit. Hmm..

At the moment we don't have a room to invite people, but there's a shelter or you can build a tent in the garden.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

While couchsurfing in Argentina, I met some great people with other stories than the random travelers. It was really a good decision to start couching!

Interests

Mmusic. Sometimes on a friends party I'll turn out to be a dj (aka Dj Cannonball Waldek).
Good food.
Hiking. Walking in the mountains or even climb them.
Discovering the globe.
Movies.
Working in the garden.
People of all kind.
Go to markets to buy some 2nd hands stuff.
Cities.
Rockabilly.
Gipsys.
Nightswimming.
Books. I got my own hobby-bookshop/library: De Chicken Shack.
Old cars (R4 - Lada Niva - VW Transporter - ...)
Ecology.
Walking on naked feet.
Tomar mate.
Adventure in small things.
Beertasting.

  • culture
  • books
  • photography
  • dining
  • walking
  • partying
  • gardening
  • movies
  • traveling
  • cars
  • socializing
  • jazz
  • guitar
  • hiking
  • ecology
  • hitchhiking
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Tarantino, Almodovar, Black cat-White cat, Snatch,..
Music: wow, here a little list: Alifarka Toure, Belcanto Guido, The Breeders, Goran Bregovic, Johnny Cash, dEUS, Nick Drake, Eels, Fugazi, Grace Jones, Grandaddy, Joy Division, Kiss my Jazz, Kraftwerk, Metal Molly, Theloneus Monk, Morcheeba, Mylo, New Order, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Pj Harvey, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Weezer, Ween, Charles Mingus, Dinah Washington, The Kills, Stooges, Dizzy Gillespie, Scissor sisters, Señor Coconut, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Jack Johnson, Tricky, Ennio Morricone, Gene Krupa, John Coltrane, Interpol, Shantel, Billy Holliday, Tiga,..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking in Patagonia.
Driving a scooter by night in Paris.
I walked on a (frozen) sea in Finland and played frisbee by minus 27 degrees.

Teach, Learn, Share

If you want I can teach you the cardgame 'chinees poepen' - but it's hard to beat me.., to breath in and out at the same time, how to make wormcompost, nice words in flamish,.. At a good eve and you like throwing wooden sticks, we can play Kubb - a game made bij the Vikings.
I wanna learn about photography, jazz, easy things on the guitar, foreign meals, lindy hop,... It will be fine as well to practise my Spanish.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Morocco, Peru, Slovenia, Turkey, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Finland

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