Easy going guy with a zest for life.

I am very open minded and I Iove to travel, meet new people, various outdoor activities and to party. I have lived and worked in Manchester since June 2018 and before then I spent a few months travelling around New Zealand and South East Asia. I spent 2017 living, working and travelling around Australia. Before then I lived and worked in London for about 3 years shortly after having come back from a 6 month trip around South America (I’ve blabbered on about that trip in the “one amazing thing I’ve done” section below if you want to know more).

Political stance: left wing/liberal.

LGBT friendly.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

What better way to meet locals and find out the best things to do and see whilst staying somewhere than stay with someone who is happy to host travellers?

Interests

• music festivals
• partying
• politics
• music
• extreme sports
• food
• travelling
• entertainment
• health and fitness

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Very eclectic taste - too many to mention but I'll try. Pretty much all genres, but not a huge fan of Dubstep, Rap, RnB, Heavy Metal
Favourite Genres: Techno, House, Electro, Indie, 80s
Favourite Artists: Arctic Monkeys, Belle & Sebastian, Blondie, Blur, Bonobo, Booka Shade, Boys Noize, Caribou, Crazy P, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Depeche Mode, Disclosure, Erol Alkan, Foals, Garbage, Hot Chip, Jon Hopkins, Kerri Chandler, Le Tigre, Massive Attack, Metronomy, MGMT, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Pulp, Stanton Warriors, Stereophonics, The Cure, The Prodigy, The Rapture, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths, The xx, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs... just to name to a few!

Favourite Films: Anything Directed by Quentin Tarantino: Django Unchained and Kill Bill especially, American Beauty, Blades of Glory, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Gladiator, Hunger Games films, Inception, Never Been Kissed, Pan's Labyrinth, Scary Movie, Seven, Slumdog Millionaire, Step Brothers, The Breakfast Club, The Lion King, The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption, What We Do in the Shadows, 28 Days Later.

Favourite TV shows: American Horror Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Come Dine with Me, Dexter, Friends, iZombie, I'm Alan Partridge, RuPaul's Drag Race, Shameless (UK version), Spaced, Summer Heights High, The Simpsons, The Walking Dead, The Valleys.

Favourite Books: Not a massive reader as it's so difficult to find the time! But even I can get hooked when it's a proper page turner. Notable books: Confessions of a Sociopath, The Da Vinci Code, The Hunger Games, To Kill a Mockingbird. I recently finished Gone Girl which was excellent!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went travelling around South America for just under 6 months at the beginning of 2013. My main reason for going there was to achieve one of my big ambitions in life and hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Overall the trek itself wasn't too challenging (except for the first half of day 2 to get to Dead Woman's pass where altitude was the killer - we started at about 2,700m above sea level at the camp site in the morning and ascended about 1.5km to 4,215m above sea level in a matter of a few hours!) but being too cheap to hire a porter and wanting to push myself, I did the whole trail with 10-12kg of hiking gear on my back. When we were having our big group meal at the end of trek in Aguas Calientes, I asked one of the (physically fit, may I add) guys from my group to pass my rucksack over and he was amazed I'd done the whole trek lugging it around with me. What we saw and learnt on the trek was amazing and seeing the sun illuminate Machu Picchu at dawn is a sight I will never forget!

That was a highlight of this trip, but the whole South American experience for me was very special as it was my first big stint of solo travel which I gained a lot from. As well as having the holiday of a lifetime by seeing and doing many amazing things, I was able to learn Spanish, volunteer working with wild animals at an animal sanctuary and worked behind the bar at a really fun party hostel. I also made some amazing lifelong friends (some of which I am still regularly in touch with today) from all over the globe.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am always game for a laugh and also a very good listener - love to find things out about people :)

Os hoffech chi ymarfer eich Cymraeg, byddai'n gallu'ch helpu chi gyda hwnna.

Hablo un poco de español tambien, entonces alguna oportunidad para practicar es bien.

Keen traveller - so happy to share experiences and any tips about the places I have visited.

Planning on going to or just want to find out more about Cardiff and London and what they are like as cities to live in? I am your man as these 2 places have been my homes away from home over the last several years.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United Kingdom