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Overview

  • 18 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning German
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Before I started this travel i was a Facility Coordinator...
  • Facility Management
  • From Netherlands
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

I'm travelling my life ahead! Travelling to go inside other cultures, enjoy nature and to understand people. I'm a social person, love to meet people and enjoy expanding my views.. I'm a positive person.
Enjoy life until the tiniest bit!
I'm very interested in yoga, meditation, mind-fullness. I have a spiritual mind set, whatever happens has to happen, so embrace it and make the best out of it.
Surfing and hosting are both interesting for me, to enjoy and learn from other people is a great pro about this concept!
I love to show you my city as i love to get to know about yours!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

CouchSurfing is for me a unique concept.. The fact that both sides are so open towards each other, sharing, giving and receiving... Sometimes it feels like you know each other for a long time. It gives me so much warmth and happiness to receive this hospitality from people and ofcourse to give the same hospitality to others. It gives my travel a special and delightful taste :)

At the moment I'm travelling, so I'm not ale to host. But as soon as I settled, I would be very happy to host people, treat them as hosts are treating me wonderfully right now and to show you around.

Interests

No need to say, travelling is my biggest interest :)! But it's absolutely not just ticking boxes and visiting sights.. It's the contact with people during my travel. To talk, laugh and eat together. I like to cook, all kind of dishes. Besides that I'm very interested in Yoga, meditation, energy work and mind-fullness. I'm interested in backgrounds of cultures and countries. Cultural activities like arts, movies and theatre are on my interest as well. And to finish, I love children, I love to talk with them, play and work. The brightness which they are looking with towards the world, is wonderful for me!

  • arts
  • dining
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • camping
  • surfing
  • swimming

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My two year travel was an amazing thing by itself! To absorb the Himalaya, travel in stinky trains in India, adopted by locals, Hakuna matata, swimming in wonderful oceans around Fiji, eat delicious food, camping in remote places in New Zealand, jumping in a container full of cotton and spiders in Australia ( for job)... It ALL was AMAZING! And mostly because of the people who participated these two years, people can turn the most terrible place into a wonderful place.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm open for anybody who can teach me anything I'm not aware of yet. Since it is an expansion of my inner self, which is a wonderful experience! The smallest and purest things can be more valuable than any diploma. So I hope I can teach somebody things, to expand his/ her inner self as well.
But of the more practical things, I love to cook, so anybody who I can teach some new recipes, i'll be happy. And of course I would love to learn new recipes :)! Besides that sharing Yoga, meditation or anything in that field I'm always up for..!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Fiji, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Netherlands

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