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About me
Single expatriate in Paris area for work, I spend there eight months a year, but I come back near Toulouse for each holidays.
My life is a simple one. In general, I just use what I think necessary. I am easily happy. I can as well live "into the wild" or spend hours in front of my computer.
Even if english language knoledge is very practicle for foreign travels, I don't like the imperialism of american language, and it's the reason why I used online translators to make one of my website in 8 different languages and also why now I contribute to the free software for automatic translation Apertium.
Spoken languages
- French Mother Tongue
- English Intermediate
- Spanish Beginner
- German Can only say Welcome!
- Swedish Can only say Welcome!
- Esperanto Can only say Welcome!
My interests
- Hobbies:
Computers : Writing free softwares :
http://libremail.free.fr/ and http://cyloop.tuxfamily.org/
Translation of the wiki of Apertium project : http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_en_fran%C3%A7ais
Photo, motorbike (during my vacation), naturist freedom, astronomy.- Books:
Novels (Bernard Werber, Harry Potter ...) and science fiction.
Books of Lobsang Rampa.
Computer technical books.- Music:
The text songs from my youth and before (Brassens, Renaud, Pierre Perret, Boby Lapointe)
My own songs : http://chansonbech.tuxfamily.org/- Films:
Films about social issues that I see in a cinema "Utopia" in the Toulouse region during my vacation.
"La belle verte" from Colline Serrault suits my lifestyle.
"Into the wild" also (without going as far as the film's hero).- Organisations I belong to:
- Association for the Promotion of Naturism in Freedom (APNEL) http://www.apnel.fr/
- Association Tuxfamily (a web host for free softwares + free art) : http://www.tuxfamily.org/fr/about
- Astronomy club of Breuillet : http://astrobreuillet.free.fr/
- The Union Force Ouvrière.
Travel experiences
- Past trips:
All over western europe since my childhood in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden (3 times), Norway (Oslo only), Great Britain.
I was on the Berlin Wall the night of December 31, 1989.
Very few trips outside europe:
- 2 stays in American families around the age of 20 years (Los Angeles and Philadelphia)
- New Year on Reunion Island that ended with the theft of my things, as for the other tourists who tasted the good but strong punch offered on the beach by local peoples !- Planned trips:
Belongs to the following groups
50+ group
J'ai l'age requis / I am old enough
BeWelcome testing team
Why not / Pourquoi pas Déçu que le système informatique de couchsurfing.org soit un système fermé dont les défauts ne peuvent être corrigés même si on saurait quoi faire (ou ne pas faire). Unhappy to undestant the computer system of courchsurfing.org is a black box where defaults cannot be corrected evev if we could know what to do or not.
Accommodation
- Max number of guests:
- 1
- Maximum length of stay:
2 or 3 days
- I Live With:
I live alone.
- Please bring:
You, your sleeping bag if you wish, but it is not essential.
- I can offer my guests:
I have boxes of an excellent cassoulet that I bring from the Toulouse region and also some Floc de gascogne (a little like pineau (more known in France), but produced in the south west).
- I can offer my hosts:
Three times, I brought some of this cassoulet (a box enough big for a 3 persons meal), and one time also Floc, but my hosts were not interested, and I brought that back to home. My wish to share the cassoulet box was even an additional point of discord during a weekend at a CS ambassador's which was badly held.
So, if you wish I bring this kind of product, ask it explicitly.- Other information for guests:
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Next time out of Arpajon :
- 27 april -> 11 may 2013
- 31 may -> 3 june 2013
and I will live this part of the country at end of june or beginning of july.
I lived 12 years in a small apartment for myself with big problems of storage (even if the welcoming of my first traveler was a good reason to improve it). I succeeded to rent the upstairs apartment (bigger) but sorting things in disorder will take me months.
To sleep, the best will be in the same bedroom as me on another mattress, except if you prefer to share my single bed. The advantage is we will not have to lie down at the same time. Otherwise, there is the living room with the computer, but I may use it up to 1 H in the morning and it is very well lit.
I sleep naked. You, can do as you want.
When it's warm enough for it to be pleasant (at least 23 ° C, which occurs from May to September), I also like being naked in my apartment. If you like it too, enjoy it. In addition, the risk of being seen from the outside is limited.
For me, nudity is not sexual.
I leave the Paris region at each school holiday (C zone) to the south of France. In particular, I am not in this region during the months of July-August.
During my vacations, I have no internet access (or very few during summer vacations). - Public transport:
The town is accessible by RER C (direction Dourdan from Paris). There are two RER per hour in each direction most of the time in the day. Walking to the station takes 10 minutes.
Several buses at porte d'Etampes (6 minutes walking) like 91-04 (Evry) and Daniel Meyer bus to Paris and Massy.- Restrictions:
- No smoking
- Other restrictions:
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from ffred - 2013-01-06 20:50:32
Bernard est un joyeux compagnon, facile à vivre et simple. Nous avons partagé une soirée fruits de mer et il s'est bien greffé au groupe de copain. Après vallait mieux pour lui qu'il ne reprenne pas la moto et donc a utilisé le canapé pour la ... more
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