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.'
Interested in Adventure Sports
Fluent in English
Learning French
1 Vouch
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.
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!
My 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
