CURRENT MISSION

Iceland!

ABOUT ME

I'm a Londoner born and raised. I lived in Brighton for three years whilst attending Sussex University.

www.travelblog.org/bloggers/gavinbedford

PHILOSOPHY

Honesty, Trust, Loyalty, Respect

I also love the idea of bringing people together through the internet.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf whilst travelling and I host when I'm at home! I absolutely love both!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have hosted in Brighton, London and Damascus... had fun times with my guests and showed them around the town by day and by night! I have also surfed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Turkey, Holland and Syria.

I once hitchiked to Morocco. This included no couch surfing but lorry seat surfing, back of van surfing, service station floor surfing and ferry floor surfing! I think a couch would be more comfortable than those things!

I Hitchhiked and couchsurfed across the UK and Ireland last summer!

I couchsurfed in Turkey and in Syria Autumn 2008.

For more travel stories see my blog: http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Gavinbedford/

Interests

Music, Football (Hull City AFC and Arsenal), Cricket, Rugby, making films and International Relations/Politics

• politics
• movies
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• guitar
• piano
• surfing
• cricket
• soccer
• rugby
• international relations

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: American Psycho, Equilibrium, Lord of the Rings, Dog Soldiers, Dr Strangelove

Music: Queen, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Muse and a liking for late 90s, early 00s pop punk/ska!

Books: I'm not much of a reader but I really like freakonomics and the Jurrasic park series. Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks is very inspiring

TV: Current TV

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I found myself at the base of the awe inspiring Citadel in Aleppo with 5 hours before I was set to meet my couchsurfing host. A man came up to me and struck up a conversation in English. He turned out to be an amazingly nice guy who sat with for hours just to chat before asking who I was staying with. I told him my couchhost's name and he said "Oh yes, I know this man - I have his telephone number". In a city of 4.3 million people I met someone that knew my host! I then proceeded to find out that when I had scribbled my host's number down I had written it wrong!! It was an unbelievable miracle that this stranger I had met had the correct number for my host!!! Amazing!

Teach, Learn, Share

I have taught guitar for a few years. Could also give teaching piano a go and introductions to audio recording and adobe Premier, Final Cut Pro or photoshop

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Greece, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, Spain, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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