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Overview

  • 87 references 63 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Catalan, Valencian, English, French, Spanish; learning Basque
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • saving lifes, including mine
  • by my mom and grandma, quality stuff
  • From Requena, Valencia, Spain
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

discover the last number of pi

ABOUT ME

I was born in Spain some years ago but I have always considered myself a citizen of the world. Spending my youth in Alicante I began at 18 to combine travels, work in 1001 different jobs, and medical studies. Like this, I have crossed a good part of Europe and lived in several countries. Now that I finished my studies I keep in the same mood: growing as a doctor, growing as a traveller, growing as a person

PHILOSOPHY

have the balls to believe in your dreams

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I began in hospitality club and then moved to cs. Mainly host in Spain and guest in the rest of the world, more than 150 exchanges so far, not really a bad one, many many good, and some excellent ones. Hope you will be in this last category

Interests

people, medicine, humanitarian work, travelling, enjoy and preserve nature, mountain, climbing, speleology, canyoning, scuba diving, motorbike riding, backgammon and other board games, street life, circus, juggling, live in community, hike, hitchhike, diving, racquet sports, ukulele, all kind of musics with soul, arts, politics, social issues, science, gastronomy and cooking, comics, sailing, photography, making party till the morning, my family, el Mediterraneo,... and I hope you too

  • arts
  • photography
  • partying
  • politics
  • comics
  • juggling
  • hiking
  • scuba diving
  • sailing
  • sports
  • medicine
  • science
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

the list could change tomorrow cause very bad to remember movies and books (but I prefer the ladder)

MOVIES: gadjo dilo, big blue, dogville, dreams, matrix, nosferatu, network, el dia de la bestia la haine, blade runner, el viaje de shihiro, godfather, the ring, excalibur, big lebowsky, four rooms,Tarantino, one flew over cuckold nest, fear and loathing las vegas, conan,castaway on the moon , kusturica, Burton, amenabar, medem,...

BOOKS: Kapuscinski, galeano, bram stoker, brusolo, neruda, rulfo, asimov, welsh, belli, kundera, cervantes, garcia marquez, orwell, borges, melville, jodorowski, suskind, london, hemingway, tolstoi, bukowski,huxley,...

COMICS: Sandman, El Incal, 20th Century Boys, Death Note, Los tecnopadres, Watchmen, From Hell, Sin City, V de Vendetta, Pluto

For me, MUSIC is one of the things that makes life worth living. i m very ecclectic in my tastes: pink floyd, brassens, king crimson, the clash, siouxie and the banshees, blondie, carlos mejia godoy, abyssinians, bob marley, can, los fabulosos cadillacs, david bowie, the who, eskorbuto, kortatu, fito, extremoduro, goran bregovic, groundation, highlight tribe, hawkwind, kas product,la polla records, calamaro, patti smith, devo, deep purple, jethro tull, berruriers noirs, max romeo, pata negra, nina simone, calle13, thelonius monk, triana, paralisis permanente, goran bregovic, jazz , blues, rap, punk, psytrance, minimal, folklore, flamenco...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Help a person to give birth, help a person to be born, help a person to live better, help a person to keep living, help a person to die.

Do halfway around the world with just one hitchhike

Teach, Learn, Share

a lot of thinks to learn ones from the others, lets discover them

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Iraq, Nicaragua, Spain

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