CURRENT MISSION

Measure the distance between Brussels & Bologna with a thread of silk

ABOUT ME

Open minded, relaxed, easy going, not a table jumper but curious about almost everything!

PHILOSOPHY

Things aren't always what they seem.
So let's try to look a bit harder.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Started out with Las Fallas in Valencia - no better introduction possible

Interests

Learning from friends, strangers, books and life - hiking - nature, especially mountain rivers - dance the night away - terribly well phrased sentences - taoism/qi gong - the jokes of my niece - the world and its people - people and their myths

• books
• dancing
• hiking
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Spring, summer, fall, winter... and spring; Das Leben der Anderen; The weeping camel, Kill Bill, Persepolis, Crash (the one by Haggis, 2004), Meglio Gioventu, Cidade de deus, Bleu, Gegen die Wand, Richard III (the one by Loncraine), Microcosmos, Amélie Poulain, Heroes, Touching the Void
BOOKS: The unbearable lightness of being (Kundera), East of Eden (Steinbeck), almost everything by Mario Vargas Llosa, The year of the death of Ricardo Reis (Saramago), The Perfume (Suskind), Nick Hornby, Kartonnen dozen (Lanoye), De Geruchten (Claus) and loads of non-fiction
MUSIC: West-African music, funky stuff, lazy&loungy things, a nice Bach sonata in the morning, polyphony

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being present at some magical places in the world

Teach, Learn, Share

That's what we do every moment of our lives - if we want to

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Brazil, Spain