CURRENT MISSION

keep believing

ABOUT ME

I love to chat, socialise, eat, drink and dance. I'm a people person and love both giving and receiving good hospitality.

PHILOSOPHY

....these days I live my life doing the things I love, with people who's company I enjoy. I've become quite cynical but I understand what is important in life: family, friends, laughter, good food, fun and good conversation. I'm a humanist, internationalist and probably a deist, depends on what book I've read recently! I'm a typical Gemini, whatever that means.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted, surfed and participated in gatherings - it's what we do :-)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

hosting or surfing, this community is wonderful.

Interests

I hike, do yoga, read, cook and travel

• books
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• drinking
• clubbing
• traveling
• socializing
• hiking
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Apocalypse Now, La Haine, Dr Strangelove, Bugsy Malone, The Return of the Pink Panther & the Godfather
Music: Slayer to Sinatra, Cash to Chopin, Deep Underground House to free form Jazz, anything as long as it's played from the heart
Books: William Boyd, Nabokov, Christopher Hitchens, Camus, Martin Amis, Arthur Miller, David Mitchell, Andre Brink, Coetzee, Niall Ferguson, McEwan, Flashman............ etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1) Touring the Boland in South Africa, my favourite place on earth
2) San Lorenzo v Roasario Central in Buenos Aires, I fell in love with Argentina that night
3) the hospitality of the people of Talas, the greatest welcome in the world

Teach, Learn, Share

Agama Yoga. Ramana Maharshi. OSHO. Rumi. Amma. Love IS all you need. Kilts. the East Neuk of Fife. Ally McCoist. James Murphy. Stuart & Orde. the Beatles. Sub Club. Any Human Heart. good quality kitchen knives. the Tien Shian. the Isle of Skye. Highland Park. Vegetarianism. Adam Curtis documentaries. Udyana Banda. Do what you love. Bill Hicks, Billy Connolly, Peter Sellers, the Hitch, MLK, Jimmy Reid, my mum

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Malaysia, Moldova, Mozambique, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, India, Kyrgyzstan, Slovakia, South Africa, Thailand, United Kingdom

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