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Overview

  • 13 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Physiotherapist
  • University
  • From Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Get stuck into Ghanaian life and learn a bit of twi

ABOUT ME

Friendly lad, with a strong interest in travelling. Another big past time is sport, love my football (soccer).
.Love the idea behind CS: meeting the people who actually live in the places i want to visit, seeing them and learning new things! Meeting people makes travelling much more rewarding so hopefully CS will help with that.

PHILOSOPHY

Expect nothing and everything else is a a bonus

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfed and hosted quite a few people now. Would love to surf some more when i get the time!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed with some very good couchsurfers in Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Finland and Estonia.

Interests

Sport (mainly football), travelling, film, music, animals, tv. Having fun with friends

  • animals
  • beer
  • tv
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • sports
  • soccer
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Blood Diamond, The Last King Of Scotland, Oldboy, City Of God, Amor es perros, kiss kiss bang bang, lucky number slevin, walk the line, ray, crash, scarface, collateral, hotel rwanda, dirty pretty things, blow, snatch, fight club, the departed, man of the year, lower city, anchorman, blades of glory, shooter, into the wild, in bruges

Pretty much any music: Kanye West, Common, Dirty Pretty Things, Serio Mendes, John Legend, The Kooks, Stereophonics, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nikki Costa, Jurassic 5, Blackalicious, The View, Plantlife, Fried, Milburn, The Verve, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Modest Mouse, N*E*R*D, Rifles, Jet, Artic Monkeys, The Fratellis, Wolfmother, Futureheads, Outkast, Audiobullys, Editors, Fat Freddy's Drop, Kings Of Convenience, Foo Fighters, Gorrillaz, Groove Armada, Gym Class Heroes, Incubus, Jack Johnson, Libertines, Babyshambles, Morcheeba, Suba, Marcelo D2, TY, Roots Manuva, Snow Patrol, CSS, Calvin Harris, The Good The Bad and The Queen among others

Books; Brasil: Life, Blood Soul by John Malthronas
Futebol; The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
The Happy isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swam with whalesharks and dolphins and spending time at Linga Linga in Mozambique
Watched the sunset over Rio from Corcovado, and then copacobana and ipanema beaches
Morning beer in a hot spring in the bolivian hot springs
Proper steak in a Buenos Aires Steakhouse
Met Ryan Giggs!!!!!!!!
Being invited to play football with the waiter's of a posh restuarant on my second day in brazil.

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Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Qatar, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Ghana, Spain, United Kingdom

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