ABOUT ME

I don't have an open mind and I hate travelling. I spit at hitchhikers. I introduce puppies and kittens to class A drugs. I sometimes read books by Ayn Rand. I don't buy fair trade panda furs. But deep down inside I got a big heart of gold??

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted and been hosted many times on the whim. CS is a slightly more organised way to do so, I guess?

Interests

I like bizarre cultural practices.
I like climbing things like rocks and trees
I like drinking tea and coffee
I like science, pragmatism, humanism
I like trying to speak a language but ending up just flailing my arms wildly and hoping that I get the message across
I like spicy foods

• books
• beauty
• coffee
• running
• walking
• drinking
• traveling
• cars
• hiking
• rock climbing
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Eclectic mix of flamenco, pop, oldies, hip-hop, acoustic
Books: A confederacy of dunces, Haruki Murakami, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Steven Pinker, Milan Kundera, Henry de Monfried, Richard Feynman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiked the notoriously desolate yet legendarily beautiful Pamir Highway [Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan]

Walking and exploring through the Wakhan Valley [Tajikistan/Afghanistan]

Explored the ruins of Buzludzha, an abandoned communist monument perched on a mountaintop [Bulgaria]

Running and jumping onto countless old vehicles [Burma]

Jumped into a Himalayan hot spring after a grueling hike in the Parvati valley [Himachal Pradesh, India]

Hitchhiked from Srinagar to Leh and back [Jammu and Kashmir, India]

Breathing the rugged beauty of the Nubra valley wrested near the India-Pakistan Line of Control [Ladakh, India]

Received too much Kurdish hospitality [East Turkey, Northern Iraq]

Discovered the importance of Hygge in one's life[Denmark]

Realised that the world is a thousand times more horrid, a thousand times more wonderful and a thousand times more bizarre than previously imagined.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, New Zealand