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  • 76 references 38 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Arabic, English, French, Italian; learning Spanish
  • 50, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Travel photography
  • Oh what's that? I know a coupla things!
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Resume travelling again.

ABOUT ME

- In three words I am: open to anything.
- Where I'd like to live: somewhere different every year.
- What in my life I feel most grateful: having a good health.
- My idea of perfect happiness: walking through a city for the first time not knowing what is around the next corner.
- The trait I most deplore in a man: irresponsibility.
- The traits I most deplore in a woman: creative mess-making
- The trait I most admire in a man: loyalty.
- The traits I most admire in a woman: Tenderness, naturalness and frankness in friendship.
- The trait I most deplore in myself: sometimes inability to decide when I have too much to choose from.
- What I dislike most about my appearance: the hair beginning to disappear at my crown.
- What I consider my greatest achievement: Having traveled plenty while I'm young, healthy and free.
- If I'd go back in time I'd set the clocks for: 1492, Granada. Spain.
- My greatest fear: having nothing to do.
- The last time I looked in the mirror I thought: not bad.
- If I had to leave a body part to science, it would be: my lungs.
- My motto: The 3 "R"s: Respect for yourself, Respect for the others and Responsibility for all your actions. Always!
- Favorite hero in real life: Noam Chomsky
- Favorite hero of fiction: Lord Henry Wotton
- My definition of love: harmony.
- The greatest lesson Life has thought me so far is: we fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
- How I would like to die: a better man than I am, and much beloved.
- I want my tombstone to read: I had such friends.

PHILOSOPHY

Do the day and let the day do you!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, meeting out with cs members

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Shared good times, shared good meals, and friends I made for life.

Interests

Youssef Amaaou Photography
http://photovogue.artandcommerce.com/artist-detail.php?artist_id=1413

Photography, of course!
Summers, travels, languages, sustainable living, friendships, other people's houses, swimming, books, eating out, chocolate, colours, ice-creams, the sea, wood, fruit smoothies, sunflowers, poppy fields, the smell of the countryside after rain.

  • books
  • photography
  • chocolate
  • walking
  • traveling
  • eating out
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • swimming
  • languages
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: The Constant Gardner, Goya's Ghosts, He Died With A Felafel In His Hands, Children of Men,American History X,The Last Samuray. ACTORS: Edward Norton, Jude Law, Sean Pen, Forrest Whitaker, Christopher Walken, Kevin Bacon, Keifer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Jessica Lange. TV SERIES: House of Cards, Hannibal. WRITERS/ESSAYISTS/AUTHORS/COLUMNISTS: Noam Chomsky, N.G. Finkelstein, Umberto Eco, Jean d'Ormesson, Garisson Keillor from the New York Times; John Grisham, Stephen King (80% for the words, the rest for the story. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde(Because the world is divided in two: Those who have read the book and those who haven't!)"Shantaram" by David Gregory Roberts (A dream...Thank you Mette) POETS: Oscar Wilde. MUSIC:Indie

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quit work for 5 years to travel, Death Road in Bolivia, 4167 m mount Toubkal ascent in Morocco, a 14 months Life in Central America and the Caribbeans.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach some photography skills! Share travel stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Norway

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