Let me introduce myself. I am nearly 29, I am a Slovak living in the Czech Republic. I have been unemployed for some time and currently I am looking for a job.

I started travelling by myself in July 2002. I went to France for the first time to visit people from IRC and I travelled to Paris, Montpellier and Mulhouse. My first independent travel lasted one month and was great in general (just one of my hosts kicked me out), but I was impressed by France very much and I returned there several times, I went there twice in 2003, in spring and summer. I visited also Egypt during Christmas 2003 and 2004 but I went there with the travel agency. 

When I arrived to France in April 2004 I visited Strasbourg firstly and then I moved to other side of France, I took a train to Salies de Bearn. My host and me visited Spain for one day. We went Pyrenees to take pictures of orchidees. The weather was unusually hot in April. Then I travelled to Bordeaux where one of my IRC friends told me about couchsurfing. I joined this website in June 2004 which makes me an old member :). There were only a few people in the Czech Republic at that time and I didn't have high expectations. I was planning to travel to France in summer again and I wanted to visit Bretagne, so I contacted a couchsurfer if he could host me, but unfortunately my first couchsurfing experience wasn't finished in a good way due to the several misunderstandings which occurred between me and my host. However, since that time I have been very active in couchsurfing and I have collected a large amount of positive experiences.