CURRENT MISSION

In Bergen, Norway for the month. Take me to your fjords!

ABOUT ME

I come from wonderful Johannesburg, and I live in strange but beautiful Cape Town in a little wooden house on a mountain overlooking the sea. In spring I see about five whales a day. And there are looooads of sharks at the beach below my house, but I swim there anyway. Badassss. I am an alien sojourner in the art world. I can't live without animals. Sometimes I think I'm actually a cat whisperer.Perhaps it follows, I am a vegetarian (most of the time). My weakness is gourmet saussage and biltong (south african delicacy - dried salted meat). One day I want to own a bookshop with a cattery in the basement.

PHILOSOPHY

"We hunger and cling to the amputated pancake" -- (Helene Cixous).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment I can't host, but I will gladly meet you for a coffee or a food etc.

I am in Bergen, Norway, til end Jan 2012.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Lately, much meeting up for drinks and dinners with people from all over (via CS). I have been a bit of a residential nomad recently, so scoring a bit low on the hosting figures. I have been hosted by truly excellent people: Knut (Oslo), Mhenna (Paris), Loan (Vietnam), Jan and Vendela (Brno), Ana (Vietnam). Other CS gems are Zlatka (Prague), Petr (Prague), Alex (London), Patrick (Prague), Steve (Australia), Young-jin (Munich). Ah, the fondness.

Interests

Art. Yoga. Maurice Blanchot. The Situationist International. Pretty dresses with pockets. Books. Architecture. Music. The Northern Lights.

• animals
• cats
• arts
• books
• architecture
• dining
• chocolate
• coffee
• vegetarian
• yoga
• drinking
• traveling
• poker
• music
• tennis
• swimming
• tourism
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Paul Auster,Sylvia Plath, Franz Kafka, Helene Cixous, Marguerite Duras, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, E.L. Doctorow, Jonathan Safran-Foer, Oscar Wilde, Theodore Fontane, Alain Robbe-Grillet Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Knut Hamsun, Dada, Surrealist and Letterist literature, philosophy, especialy continental philosophy, especially post-structuralist French philosophy. Music: Ida Maria, Klabbes Bank, Paavo, The Books, Joan as Police Woman, Death from Above 1979, Crystal Castles, Simon Bookish, Marc Johnson, Atomic, Carlo Mombelli and the Prisoners of Strange,Blonde Redhead, The XX, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Final Fantasy, My Brightest Diamond, the new Regina Spektor is nice. All sorts of yummy electro - I like to go out and dance like a crazy person.Movies: Hiroshima Mon Amour, Pan's Labyrinth. What else? Persepolis was cool.Developing dangerous series addiction: Bored to Death, Arrested Development, Breaking Bad

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I partied with princes William and Harry once at my cousin's wedding. I am roughly 378th in line to the British throne. Not that that has an implications for my couch - sorry.

A really amazing place I've explored is Ha Long Bay in Vietnam.

Teach, Learn, Share

SO, I love Johannesburg and I can tell you lots of amazing things about it that you will never learn from a travel guide. I like to think I know it a lot better than many people who actually still live there, because I spent so much time there going to the places you're "not supposed to go" etc. SO I can tell you some of that stuff. Now I live in Cape Town, where I'm learning a lot about all the great wines in the region. We can learn together:) I can teach you to stand on your head, how get your way with chocolate chip cookies and how to tell good art from crap art (just kidding). In return, I'd like to learn how to play tennis and poker and how to make shoes. Or you can just tell me something about where you're from ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Botswana, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mauritius, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, South Korea, Swaziland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa

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