I love to sing, dance, make art, poetry/spoken word, go for long mountain walks (especially where there is water), make fires and try to play the guitar. I enjoy health and well-being, handcrafts and learning to be self-sufficient as a group/community.

At the moment I am working with constructing Green Roofs, learning more about traditional building crafts and horticulture.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I enjoy hosting others to show them around my familiar places and give them a less touristy but more in depth experience to my place. It's great to meet people on their own adventures, and getting to know some people from all walks of life that you may never engage with in normal day to day life.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing saved me on the hitch-hiking road in Paris. And have met some incredibly interesting, lovely and generous people! Every experience different and none bad.

Interests

Capoeira!

• arts
• poetry
• singing
• dancing
• capoeira
• cooking
• recipes
• crafts
• traveling
• guitar
• spoken word
• cycling
• hiking
• hunting
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Miyazaki films, Quentin Tarantino, Wong Kar Wai, Almodovar, City of God, I Heart Huckabees, Zatoichi, The Green Mile, Forrest Gump, Kung Fu Hustle, Leon, Amelie, The Science of Sleep, Amores Perros, Babel, Chicago, Survive Style 5, Reality Bites

I like all types of music, things that are old&new. But at the moment I really enjoy African jazz, and just jazz, afrobeat, bossa nova, brass bands, alternative rock, ska/reggae, hip hop, funk, soul, latin, psychedelic rock, Eastern European and electronic.

Books: The Alchemist, Shantaram, Born to Run. Philosophy: Fernando Pessoa, Masanobu Fukuoka,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cycling down a pass from over 5000m in the Himalayas.
Hitch-hiking from Italy to Dover, UK.
Seeing the moon rise and shooting stars for the first time.
Seeing a storm of lightning travel through the mountains towards us over night.

There will be more to come I'm sure...

Teach, Learn, Share

Capoeira: songs, rhythms, instruments and physical dance/martial art, philosophy.

I'm no expert, but I love to cook/bake/make healthy (but indulgent) raw recipes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Spain, United Kingdom