On the road again! Tentative travel dates 2022-

Belgium until 4th February
Italy 4th-22nd February
Ireland 22nd-28th February
cycling between Belgium and Italy 1st-12th March
Cyprus 12th-20th March
Italy 20th March onwards (getting a job and sticking around?)

Just reactivated my Couchsurfing after a long hiatus. It's such a great nostalgia trip reading through old messages and such a relief to see the site is still somewhat alive after the paywall fiasco. :) Hello again everyone!

Into my 4th decade now, I'm getting ready to relocate my life once again, looking for sunnier climes and continuing my slow migration south towards the Mediterranean. I've led my previous lives mainly in the north of Ireland, where I was born; in England, where I did my first studies; and in Belgium where I was as settled as a nomad could be, and lived for most of my twenties.

In between I lived for shorter periods of time in France, Canada, the Netherlands and Poland. I've been lucky enough to travel around almost every country of the European Union, as well as a few little corners of North America, Africa and Asia.

For almost 2 years I've been taking on a new career - I retrained as a baker and I've been working in various organic sourdough bakeries in Belgium since then. Wherever I travel from now on I'm looking to learn from the local bread culture, and see how it can become a part of my craft. I'm also looking for a place where I can settle and start my own business baking bread.

I'm looking forward to reconnecting with this fantastic community of nomadic souls, and learning from the wide world around me once again. See you on the way!

Couchsurfing Experience

(I copied this from the 'old-school' CS profile so I could keep a little log) This includes people I met on Trustroots and Warmshowers as well.

Meeting up for events, tours and nights out - in Wroclaw, Dresden, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Gothenburg and Brussels.

Surfed with the following lovely people -

Ilias (Gothenburg '10)
Constanza and Alejandra (Biddeford, ME '11)
Rose (Somerville, MA '11)
Rebecca (Burlington, VA '11)
Petter (Gothenburg, '12)
Jenny (Isle of Man, '13)
Kira (Konstanz, '13)
Tomas (Bratslava, '13)
Halil (Istanbul, '13)

Hosted the following equally lovely people-

Marine (York '12)
Amelia (York '12)
Lexy (York '12)
Irving (Brussels '13)
Matthieu (Brussels '13)
Jonathan (Brussels '13)
Marisol and Zaira (Brussels '13)
Guntae (Brussels '14)
Alex (Amsterdam '17)
Elena (Amsterdam '17)
Stefan (Belfast '18)
Pauline (Belfast '18)
Gintarė and Paulus (Belfast '18)
Gwenole, Soazig, Matthieu, Stéphane and Anne (Belfast '18)

Saw the city with:

Jolene (Kuala Lumpur '09)
Jimmy (KL and Malacca '09)
Bart (Wroclaw '10)
Viktoria (Gothenburg '10)
Barbora (Bratislava '14)
Valeriya (Turin '22)

Interests

• literature
• environment
• bouldering
• cycling
• hiking
• agriculture
• hitchhiking
• language exchange
• cities
• sharing
• hip hop
• slow travel
• fermentation
• polyamory
• slow food
• arthouse movies
• indie folk
• sourdough bread

Teach, Learn, Share

Let's cook together and learn from different culinary traditions.

I'd love to learn the Italian language, I can teach you English or French in return.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Canada, England, France, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland

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