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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 26, Male
  • Member since 2017
  • Student
  • Amsterdam University College
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Hi!
I'm a twenty year old from Oxford, UK, currently taking a break from travelling to study in Amsterdam, with plans to return to exploring as much of the world as I can as soon as I finish. In the past couple of years I've spent time in Australia, Bali, Thailand, Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Morocco working at surf camps, on farms, teaching English and living out of my backpack for as long as possible (and always with a smile).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Wherever I travel it's so important for me to meet the local people and get a true local experience of the places I visit. I also think CS is a great way to make crazy friends and share wild travel stories that never get old.

Interests

  • movies
  • reading
  • music
  • jazz
  • guitar
  • hiking
  • windsurfing
  • camping
  • surfing
  • sailing
  • wild camping
  • vanlife
  • vagabonding

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger
Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
Hemingway, Orwell, Huxley, Camus, Jorge Luis Borges

Music:
The Eagles
Simon and Garfunkel
A lot of jazz - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Sonny Rollins

Movies:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Blues Brothers
Into The Wild
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Scorsese, Woody Allen

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled the Australian East Coast in a camper van packed with surfboards
Solo hiked Corsica from North to South

What I Can Share with Hosts

Hours and hours of travel stories ranging from camper van cooking disasters in Australia to a fire in a host's house in Morocco to spending nine days solo hiking through Corsican mountains and everything in between.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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