I'm a translator/historian, based in Rio for 10 years, where I've been researching and writing about colonial Brazilian history, when not wading through legal and other translations.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

To meet people and get to know places via the people who live there.

Centres d'intérêt

Art, history, film, books, food/cooking, yoga, tennis, football, nature/wildlife, talking and laughing.

• wildlife
• arts
• writing
• books
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• socializing
• soccer
• tennis
• history
• languages
• law
• beaches

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Electronic, dance, jazz, hip hop, Brazilian music. Non-fiction books (history, biographies), the novels of Charles Dickens + Latin American authors such as Cortazar, Gilberto Freyre, Otavio Paz

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Being helicoptered out of the surf on Ipanema Beach

Pays que j'ai visités

Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Brazil, Mexico, United Kingdom