CURRENT MISSION

To leave my job and move!

ABOUT ME

Hello there,

I'm David, 31, from Birmingham UK, and I want to see the world - including your couch / bit of floor.

PHILOSOPHY

Do your best and leave the rest.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfing has always seemed like an amazing idea to me but I have not yet fully engaged with it. I registered while I lived in France but had no surfers come to stay.

I am keen to travel in a way that is different from the 'average tourist'. I want to try and experience a place , as much as possible, from the perspective of someone who lives there. I want to avoid the tourist traps and see what people who are from a place really cherish or enjoy - or even see those things that are completely mundane to the people who live there but might blow my mind!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Spent four days with Guillaume and Martin in Montreal. A very positive experience. I think I might be getting the CouchSurfing bug...

Interessen

I like music ('indy'), swimming, the clarinet, a bit of cycling here and there, and cities...

.. In fact, I am pretty much obsessed with cities. I am going to dedicate my career to Urban Planning - and I'm always fascinated by their complexity and diversity. I also love seeing how they function, or not, as the case may be.

I like food, all types of food especially pain aux raisins and sushi.

I also really like films, especially 'foreign' cinema (french, japanese and korean in particular) and i love Little Miss Sunshine.

I have also been known to enjoy a good old-fashioned BOOGEY!

• dining
• movies
• traveling
• music
• swimming
• swimming in the sea

Musik, Filme und Bücher

see above
also books that open my eyes to other worlds and cultures
Small Island, Brick Lane, Wild Swans, Memories of a Geisha, a boy called H, La tailleuse chinoise, Modernité, ma Mere! - and crazy quirky french childrens books like Le petit prince and Catherine Certitude.

My music choice is pretty eclectic though have the tendency to forget names of bands and lyrics - check out http://www.last.fm/user/yelnik/ for what i've been listening to recently - currently lots of The XX, Sigur Ros and Mumford and Sons.

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

I stayed in a Japanese temple on the side of a mountain for one night - relying on the priest to come and collect me from the station and take me to where he lived. It was a bizarre but amazing experience.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Greece, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

France, United Kingdom

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