CURRENT MISSION

There is literally nothing witty left to write here.

ABOUT ME

You can find me on BeWelcome too (username 'Dunk'). I don't mind which site you request me through.

I'm 27 (or 28?); I live with one lovely Estonian girl, one lovely Lithuanian girl, and one lovely Kiwi girl, in a big old flat in the West End.

I grew up in the country, and I'm generally calm and very occasionally intense. I like learning and experiencing over achieving. Not that I dislike achievement - I mean, it's about balance, right?

As a result of some combination of upbringing and genetics I am prone to spend too much time wondering what life is about; I find climbing mountains the most acceptable cure for this.

When I am not climbing mountains (read: worrying profusely about life, and completely forgetting to climb mountains), I am a bartender.

(I should mention here that I work most evenings - in general this means Wednesday to Saturday from 5, and all day Sunday, but this sometimes varies.)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sometimes I host...?

You should know that I'm not really into taking people by the hand around the city. All I mean is that in general I find I can do a lot more hosting when what I am giving is a relaxed place to be yourself and do your things, like sleep and wash your stuff and cook and whatever. That's not to say we wont hang out, but just that I'm not always in the mood to be intensely sociable... like anyone I guess.

Please take a moment to read the references my previous hosts (older references) and surfers (newer references) have left for me. I worked hard for them! Ha.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I signed up at the start of 2011, because I was travelling and I gathered this could save me a shit-load of cash, which it did (yay!). And anyway it was much more fun and interesting than hostels. But after three solid months of it I decided that stability is actually quite nice sometimes, so I settled in Toulouse, France, where I hosted about a thousand people a day as a part of a big house-share/hippie-collective. After that I was kinda burned out for a while so I took off hitch-hiking again with a tent, and didn't even CS once, except in that way that someone who picks you up hitch-hiking gives you a bed for the night, or takes you to a beach to party for a weekend. Generally I think that impromptu hosting is the best, but I guess CS beats it in any situation where you need to 'plan ahead'.

Interests

Cycling, hillwalking, cooking, breadmaking, brewing wine, making ice-cream, reading, occasionally writing, drawing things, playing my guitar (and when the house is empty or I'm a little drunk; trying to sing)... getting annoyed at how cliche it is to fill this section in with a straight-up list of hobbies and how I'm too tired right now to really come up with anything more witty...

• writing
• singing
• cooking
• wine
• partying
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• genealogy
• hitchhiking
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I almost never voluntarily listen to music. I think that's something which makes me a little different from most people because people usually ask me what kind of music I'm into, and it seems to me a little like someone asking what kind of tobacco I'm into, only maybe tobacco is a bad analogy. Maybe hats. I mean, I don't wear hats but at least I do have an opinion on them; some are really obnoxious and some are kind-of okay, and occasionally I guess I'll see one and think, "Wow, that is really a good hat." That said, I do occasionally play guitar.

I read books (I said that already). I prefer clever use of well-known words over correct use of big words (Jack Kerouac is great and Herman Melville bores me to tears), but I put up with these writers that seem obsessed with the size of their vocabulary because often you also find a pretty good story hidden underneath it all.

Quite often I watch films purely for their fun value (Iron Man was bloody great - as was Planet Terror). This actually goes pretty against what I am generally like. Slightly more coherent with my nature is my love for good sci-fi, like Moon and 2001 and Primer and Solaris, and even sort-of Looper and the first Matrix. My favourite film ever is called La Belle Noiseuse, which is a 4-hour French piece about an ageing artist and a young woman who he adopts as a muse. I also really liked Synecdoche New York. I could do that thing where I say "oh, there are so many more I can't even start..." but actually I think that's a pretty comprehensive list.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have to write something here, because CS's automated-security-whatever says I can't write a message to another member unless this "basic" section is filled in. That's also kind-of why I wrote something in "Interests".

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Estonia, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United Kingdom

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