Back and forth between Ireland and London so I'm often looking for a cat sitter for my place in West Drayton - it's in West London near Heathrow airport.

I have some travel experience but I'm not one of those CS professionals you come across on here.
I just love chatting and getting an insight into other cultures and also what makes people tick.

I'm a musician, serious film fan and foodoholic.
Being Irish, I can't refuse a drink either, although I don't take too much!

PHILOSOPHY

Work hard, earn the right to play hard! Full of respect for nature and science. I also have an endless thirst for knowledge, even if my brain can't always retain it! I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

I once heard Albert Mazibuko from Ladysmith Black Mambazo say: 'Whatever you do in life, do it well.'

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I associate hotels abroad with work and find it hard not to consider CS when travelling! My host to surf ratio is still quite high so my credit is good :)

I think the best CS experience I've had so far was a party I threw for a load of surfers in London.... so much fun!
But then again other times were just as good in different ways... it's all relative!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had six wonderful people grace me with their presence! I think I have learned how to become a great host with time, balancing the expectations of others with what I consider to be fun.

On the flip side.. there's that amazing feeling of being on a train in a strange land.. venturing into the unknown.

Interests

Music times a million. comedy. films. war history. Guinness. being creative and sharing knowledge and thoughts. I also have some sort of a fascination for Scandinavia, and I want to meet as many people as possible from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and to a lesser extent, Denmark haha

• concerts
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• astronomy
• history
• science
• outdoors

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourites: Tool, Bjork, Meshuggah, Plaid, Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, SCOTT MATTHEWS, Martin Grech, Jeff Buckley, Mars Volta, System of a Down, Radiohead, Primus, jazz, reggae, electronica ect

I think my favourite movies of all time would include:
The Lives of Others - just brilliant
Lore - think I fell in love with her
Shotgun Stories - gritty good vs evil tale
Animal Kingdom - as above
Bodysong - AMAZING......will blow your mind
Dancer in the Dark - will destroy you, or irritate you
Antichrist - just good fun with great shots
Cache - will make you think like no other movie
Timecrimes - damned clever and so much fun

Other than that, general stuff by:
Werner Herzog
Lars von Trier
Gus Van Sant
David Cronenberg
Steven Soderbergh
Park Chan Wook
Hayao Miyazaki
Andrei Tarkovsky
Pedro Almodóvar
Zhang Yimou
Spike Jonze
Michael Winterbottom
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Darren Aronofsky
Stanley Kubrick
Woody Allen
David Lynch
Jane Campion
Olivier Assayas
Coen Brothers
Dardenne brothers
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Michael Haneke
Bruno Dumont
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Aki Kaurismäki
David Fincher
Frank Darabont
Michael Moore
Duncan Jones
Nacho Vigalondo
New French Extremity

Books I like:
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Robert Winston - Human Instinct
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
also getting through Dawkins, Joyce, Bukowski and Thompson, Kafka, Camus ect

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Iceland.

But I only got to see the tip of the iceberg. Literally.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to play guitar. Or give you a few history lessons! Also I want to learn about different cultures and absorb myself in them.

Somebody please show me the Northern Lights!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, United Kingdom

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