CURRENT MISSION

Everything

ABOUT ME

Likened variously in the past to the Green Man, The Jolly Green Giant, Fry from Futurama, and the Janitor in Scrubs. Who knows...

Whatever the ridiculous comparisons - super easy going, eternally optimistic, good-hearted, perpetual smile, patient, generous, polite, helpful. Can be a little lazy at times, but only on my own watch!

PHILOSOPHY

Take it easy on yourself, on others, in life.
Learn to love food and three times a day you have an excuse to be happy.
Find excellent company to share it all with.
Tea.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

New to the community, currently living abroad and unable to host but always up for meeting interesting new people!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Crashed on plenty of couches in my time, though none directly through Couchsurf.com

Interests

Snowboarding at every opportunity, surfing when I'm brave enough (and it's warm enough), volleyball when its sandy, summer when it's summer, winter when it's winter, sunshine, snow, delicious food and wine, spontaneous adventures, green leafy growing things especially in spring, having a tail sometimes, the green taste of rivers and lakes, boats, champagne, haybales, music to live by, books that absorb, books that educate, anything that makes you laugh or smile, conversation in full swing.

• books
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• wine
• running
• music
• surfing
• snowboarding
• volleyball
• lakes
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Ferris Bueller's Day off, A Good Year, The Fall, Princess Mononoke, Chocolat, The Dreamers, Up in the Air, Yes Man, V for Vendetta, The Watchmen, Don Juan deMarco, The Royal Tenenbaums

Tunng, Aphex Twin, Four Tet, Ugly Duckling, Ben Howard, Broadcast 2000, The Cat Empire, Al Green, Otis Redding, Netsky, T-rex, Bonobo, cLOUDDEAD, Van Morrison, Django Reinhart, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Yann Tiersen, Massive attack, The Books, Frog Pocket, Why?, Sage Francis.

AS Byatt, Peter Carey, Milan Kundera, Daniel Quinn, JM Barrie's 'Peter Pan' (especially with illustrations by Jan Ormerod), Philip Pullman, Robin Hobb, Terry Pratchett, Niki Segnit's 'Flavour Thesaurus'.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living in the medieval fortified town of Briancon, in the heart of the French Alps. Ancient rickety buildings, French cobbled streets with fountains running down the middle, perched at the top of a huge steep hill and fortified with un-scalable,impenetrable walls. And yet, it was so high up, so precarious and so designed that it felt like a town floating above the valleys below.

Teach, Learn, Share

hmmmm... Cooking? Creative cooking, not recipes.
hmmmm... Snowboarding? Always a sucker for it.
hmmmm... Relaxing? Sounds strange but some people really don't know how to fully enjoy lazing around

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Greece, India, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Sweden, United Kingdom