ABOUT ME

Friendly, liberal, love chatting, going for walks, bike rides, swimming in the sea, gardening, fixing bikes, and cooking. I love learning new languages, experiencing new cultures and am deeply motivated to try and live in an environmentally sustainable way. I find a way to get on with most people, and I love trying most activities, except maybe competitive sports...

PHILOSOPHY

Ghandhi says it best: 'Be the change you want to see'

And, remembering that we're all just trying our best.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have surfed many, many couches through this website when hitching my way around the world. I have also hosted a few people when I've had a home and bed to offer. I love it, i think it makes the world a better place, and us happier people - the trust we build when putting faith in strangers' kindness is incredible.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Did a similar thing to Couchsurfers, called Servas, my family were hosts during all of my childhood. Then I stayed with lots of hosts in Reunion and Mauritius in 2002/2003. I loved it, it was an amazing way to jump straight in to experiencing every day life in a new country, meet open friendly people, and, as a lone traveller, feel safe doing so. In 2008/2009 i joined couchsurfers, and surfed many couches throughout the Canary Islands and the Caribbean. Again, it was fantastic, a constant stream of friendly faces to meet, welcoming hugs, fascinating lives, ready-made friends wherever i went. I particularly love how different the hosts are - you absolutely cannot stereotype a couchsurfer host, there is just one thing that unites them - open friendliness.

Intereses

Main interests are environment, ecology, sustainable living, education, social issues, politics, languages and culture. Things i like doing: cycling, walking, dancing (to ANY music ANYwhere), singing, chatting, lying under trees, jumping in rivers, picnicking on the beach, swimming in the sea, growing food, interesting films, facilitating/teaching, speaking French, cooking with friends, eating, afternoon snoozes, picking wild food and going to the pub with friends. And sailing.

• animals
• culture
• singing
• beauty
• dancing
• education
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• walking
• pub crawls
• flying
• politics
• movies
• music
• cycling
• sailing
• swimming
• ecology
• teaching
• languages
• beaches
• rivers

Música, películas y libros

Films i love - off the top of my head... Amelie, Delicatessen, I Love Huckabees, A Life Less Ordinary, The Life of Brian, that Mongolian one with the Crying camel, Dancer in the Dark, and most independent non-English films i've seen! And from childhood - Labayrinth and Mary Poppins. Music - most, but less so current anglo-American pop (i'm so bored), and particularly (i like) funky stuff to dance to, sea shanties to sing along to, jazz to listen to, Gypsy punk (just one band i know and love - Gadjo), Indie to remind me of my teenage years, reggae to take me back to the Caribbean (not stereotyping - it really was played everywhere), Tori Amos and... Bjork, no category, she is just amazing and i love her music/art in all sorts of situations.. Books, fiction that takes me to another culture/world, last few books I read and loved - The Red Tent , The Fifth Sacred Thing, Station Eleven, Wolf Winter, Cargo Fever, Purple Hibiscus... All set in other countries and other times, other worlds - I Iike to travel through reading books!

Algo increíble que he hecho

I once hitched on sail boats across the Atlantic, around the Caribbean, to Bermuda and back, to visit my family without flying, and for the adventure. And here I am doing it again, I'm half way round, in Bermuda...

Enseña, aprende, comparte

See above..

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

I'm pretty chatty and love to listen to others life stories... I can fix bikes, share food growing skills, I know hundreds of short songs from around the world which I'll happily share... I'm a goodish, experimental and happy cook, will cook anything (except animals and their products, I'm vegan...) and I can show you a magic trick with an elastic band.

Países que he visitado

Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Dominica, France, Germany, Ireland, Madagascar, Mauritius, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Réunion, Spain, Ukraine, United States, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Países en los que he vivido

Bermuda, Réunion, United Kingdom