CURRENT MISSION

To adapt to life at home...after a year on the road...aghhhhhh.

ABOUT ME

Well, I think I´m relatively normal....although sometimes I can´t help the feeling that I´m living in a Murakami novel or a Woody Allen film! Is that normal?? I´m an idealistic person and passionate about history, film, the Irish language and travelling of course...which is normal...I think. What is "normal" anyway??

PHILOSOPHY

Learn. Love. Live. Life....Travel.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and in Boston. Shared one too many pints of Guinness with my CS host from Boston around the pubs in Dublin.

Interests

History, film, travel, reading, sport, Irish language & culture, reflecting on the world over a pint of Guinness, red wine, bread, stand-up comedy, politics, swimming, trekking, quite a fan of tea (normal and herbal)...

• culture
• books
• wine
• red wine
• pub crawls
• clothing
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• equestrian
• backpacking
• sports
• soccer
• swimming
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Did I mention I love film??
Bicycle Thieves, Battle of Algiers, Citizen Kane, Chinatown, Pather Panchali, The Conversation, The French Connection, In The Mood For Love, Battleship Potemkin, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Amores Perros, Infernal Affairs, Rome Open City, The Squid and The Whale, The Exorcist, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Le Samurai, Seven Samurai, Wild Strawberries, Tokyo Story, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Psycho, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, Vertigo, Jaws, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, A Time For Drunken Horses, Osama, Friday Night Lights, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, The Truman Show, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Land and Freedom, The Spirit of the Beehive, Alien/Aliens, Badlands, The Thin Red Line, Heat, Die Hard, Batman Begins, The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Born on the Fourth of July, Full Metal Jacket, Goodfellas, The Silence of the Lambs, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Bourne Identity/Supremacy, La Haine, ,Good Will Hunting...

Books:
Non-Fiction - mainly History, Politics, Economics;
Lies My Teacher Told Me, A People´s History of the United States, Liberators: Latin America´s Struggle for Independence, New Ideas From Dead Economists. Globalisation And Its Discontents, War of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The General In His Labyrinth, The Heather Blazing, That They May Face The Rising Sun, Amongst Women; Star of the Sea; Enduring Love, Saturday, Amsterdam; The Transformation of Ireland, A Star Called Henry, The Quiet American, Silas Marner(!), Homage to Catalonia, Remains of the Day, The God Delusion, Of Mice and Men...

Music:
Anything & everything - no cheese please...unless I´m extremely drunk or, if I´m honest, when I secretly indulge in the occasional guilty pleasure;
Air, Bjork, Anthony & the Johnstons, Belle & Sebastian, Boards of Canada, The Cure, Cyndi Lauper, Carl Cox, David Kitt, Electronica, Gorillaz, Interpol, Jack Johnston, Keane, Radiohead, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, God is an Astronaut, Redneck Manifesto, Laurent Garnier, Kila, Sinead O'Connor, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Led Zepplin, The Beatles, U2, The Stone Roses, Orbital, Underworld, The Prodigy, David Bowie, Damien Dempsey, Johnny Cash

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Worked/acted as a "fake businessman" for a few days near Beijing while backpacking through Vietnam and China. Long story...but funny. Elephant-riding in Cambodia; Canyoning in South Island, New Zealand (best fun you can have with your clothes on); watched the sun set in the driest desert on earth, Northern Chile; 4wdrove through the world's largest salt lake, Uyuni, Bolivia; chewed coca leaves in the silver mines of Potosi, Bolivia; played football with local orphans, Sucre, Bolivia; mountainbiked, Santa Marta, Peru; cleaned Wooly Monkey shit in a cage in Ecuador; horseback-riding, San Augustin, Colombia; paraglided in San Gill, Colombia; chilled on the San Blas Islands, Panama; baked bread in an farming collective, Guatemala..............................................

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, New Zealand, United States

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