My great passions are photography, finding out about different cultures, arts, literature, movies, theatre, eating out and talking.

I am learning Italian, watching old Italian films and reading a wonderful novel by Vasco Pratolini: "Cronache die poveri amanti" about a street and its inhabitants in Italy around 1925. Pratolini actually lived in that street, Via del Corno, as a young person. So it's full of detail about everyday life in this poor area, the rise of the fascists and the desperate struggle against them, all intermingled with love stories, treachury, and all else.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Opportunity to meet new people and find out about their ways of life and seeing things.

Music, Movies, and Books

All kinds of music from the classics through pop (love the Stones), to guitar, piano, jazz ...

Love all sorts of movies, though more the more serious ones

History, novels ... Marcel Proust, Kafka, Pratolini

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelled through the USA by car with my son in the summer of 2015

Teach, Learn, Share

Teacher of English, French and German

What I Can Share with Hosts

I cook wonderful pizzas, Chinese sweet-sour, lasagne, fish and chips

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, France, Germany, Lebanon, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom