A few years ago I travelled solo for ten months through Europe. I worked at a retreat centre in Scotland, explored France, lived for a few months with a friend in Switzerland, and then spent a few months at a monastery in Greece before making a pit stop in Germany on the way back home to Canada.

Ever since then I’ve been wanting to do more travelling. I was very intrigued by so many aspects of Greek culture and would like to do more traveling in the Mediterranean and the Balkans.

In these last few years I’ve been re-assessing whether Vancouver is really the place I’d like to continue to call home. The travel bug is biting again . . . 😉

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love connecting with fellow travellers. The “openness” of attitudes and interests that you so often find in travellers makes for some great conversations and explorations.

I’m unable to host at the moment, but I love being able to show people around this city of mine that I’ve known for so long.

Interests

Art
Ideas
Conversation
Nature
Beauty
Silence

• arts
• writing
• performing arts
• dancing
• tango
• cooking
• gardening
• politics
• traveling
• drawing
• divinity
• ecology
• journalism
• nature
• activism
• museums
• journaling
• crafting
• nature conservation
• swing dance
• ecological restoration
• salsa dance

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOK:

Beloved, by Toni Morrison; soooo much poetry; more books than I can list.

MUSIC:

Folk Music of many different kinds; so many different kinds of music; I’ve spent so many hours of my life listening to music!

A few names and genres, in alphabetical order, starting at the beginning:

Alison Krause
Basia Bulat
Beirut
Bruce Cockburn
Cat Stevens
Fado
Florence and the Machine
Gillian Welch
Gregorian Chant
Gypsy Dance
Iron and Wine
Kathleen Edwards

FILM:

The Piano
Rouge, Blanc, Blue
documentaries

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travel solo for 10 months.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: dance for children, teenagers and adults

Learn: French, German, Greek, cooking

Share: I can bake you a cake.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Knowledge of the places I've been in Europe, plus the place I'm from - Vancouver and it's surrounding areas.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Switzerland, United States