I've been back in the UK since July 2016, before then I was living in New Zealand for 2 years, before then I lived in Australia for a year, before THEN I taught English in South Korea for 2 years. My travelling all started in 2010 with a 3 month trip to the US and Canada, and now I'll be back in Canada from 17 July 2017 on a two year working holiday visa.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It's cheaper than hostels! and staying with bona fide locals is wayyy better than staying in a smelly 8-bed dorm.

I'm a pretty tidy, well behaved, polite, interesting house guest.

Interests

Music. Playing it, watching it, listening to it, loving it, hating it, talking about it. But being left-handed means I can't often get my hands on a guitar I can play while travelling. Film, Books, People.

• books
• traveling
• music
• guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

Modest Mouse, Bon Iver, Louis CK, Mike Kinsella, Maria Semple, frankie, Tina Fey, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhall, Robert Downey Jr, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Regina Spektor, The Weeknd, The xx, Rainer Maria Rilke, Julien Baker, David Foster Wallace, Ryan Gosling, Broad City, Girls, Girlboss, Kanye West, Keith Lemon, David Sedaris, Dave Eggers, Bukowski, Fleetwood Mac, Aesop Rock, Frightened Rabbit, The Beatles, Eminem, Modern Baseball, Manchester Orchestra, The National, The Front Bottoms, Arctic Monkeys, Dave Grohl, The Tallest Man on Earth, Rick and Morty, Woody Allen and Minimalism.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Scuba diving with thresher sharks, Orca whales swimming in my front yard, swimming in phosphorescent water (Punga Cove, Marlborough Sounds, NZ), biking through the hills in Vietnam, hearing true silence in the Doubtful Sounds, standing infront of a classroom full of Korean students and teaching them English for two years (more terrifying than scuba diving with the sharks!), feeling the force of Naigra Falls up close, Red Sox game at Fenway Park, Glastonbury Festival, Sasquatch Festival, Grand Canyon. sorry it's more than one thing...

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Philippines, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, United Kingdom