Category Archives: couch surfing

Couchsurfing.org

Sam & Laura surfed our couch. Want to know more; see couchsurfing.org .  It’s for the travellers of the future. For freedom and understanding in the world. For a sustainable earth, and a lot more of that kind of vague language. Cycling and couchsurfing are the keywords for this new generation !

full house

full house, originally uploaded by wim harwig.

two couchsurfers and Ellen were in da house …

Benjamin and Romain

couch

My parents-in-law bought this couch a long time ago. It went through a lot of family  happiness and resisted  several large dogs. After we inherited the couch we used it many years in our living room too. The past few years it stood on our porch.

If it only could talk …… many, many tales and secrets would be told ;-)

Today it was thrown into the garbage truck. Together with all the secrets and untold tales. Just a few minutes earlier, Mo urinated “his couch” just one last time, to be sure that it would be recognized as “his couch” in the couch-heaven.

D & T

Darby and Tammy came back to collect their cycling stuff again, after a 3 year working and saving period in their beloved New Zealand. They will have a long cycling trip in Eastern Europe during the coming summer.

cannondale

I started cleaning the Cannondale tandem and the Wilderbeast. Darby will go on a tour through the eastern part of Europe with his partner Tammy.

I started a fantasizing about a long bike trip myself, when I saw this combination. It’s a stimulating view ………

cannondale mt 2000

Darby and Tammy are planning to ride through the eastern part of Europe on their Cannondale MT 2000 tandem. But the tandem needs a tough overhaul first.

The tandem wasn’t used for about 3 years …..



couchsurfers

Cycling the LF1, along the Dutch coastline. They found us via couchsurfing.org

couchsurfers, originally uploaded by wim harwig.


Éric ; a Couchsurfer.

Éric surfed our couch yesterday. He had quite some days of heavy rainshowers and strong headwinds on his bicycle. Unfortunately we didn’t have much time to get to know each other better. He must have a lot of storys to tell ……..

Read all about him at http://roulerosieroule.blogspot.com/

Simonas & Alina

A couple from Vilnius (Lithuania) surfed our couch during their cycling-trip through NW Europe.  I showed them the Boulevard in Vlissingen and Simonas showed us some of his short films he made during their trip through Finland. We had some nice conversations.

The video shows how much time they invest in packing their bikes ;-)

On the photo you can see the good old fashioned GPS Simonas uses as “back-up” in case the Garmin refuses ;-)

more couchsurfers

Luke & Jean were with us. Two couchsurfers from England.

Luke had his 21-th birthday !