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.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

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

Interests

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

Music, Movies, and Books

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

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being helicoptered out of the surf on Ipanema Beach

Countries I’ve Visited

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

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Mexico, United Kingdom