An Icelandic journalist and librarian who loves cinema, music, literature, traveling, cooking, crafting and dancing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I prefer doing CS when visiting new places as it adds so much more to the experience than staying at a hostel does for example - it's just much more satisfying to meet locals and gain their insight and tips, which is something a travel guide can never capture. I've been incredibly lucky in my CS ventures and have met so many lovely people who I'm are actively in touch with and hope to meet again.

Interests

Cinema, traveling, literature, cooking and baking, cycling, writing, crafting, nostalgia, astronomy, linguistics, lindy hop, animals, trees and nature (I love walking in the woods), board games and lawn games, photography, comic books, flea markets and thrift stores, museums, pub quiz, new experiences in general.

• animals
• culture
• writing
• literature
• photography
• cooking
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• astronomy
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: northern soul, post-punk, indie, britpop
Top 5 bands: Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Orange Juice, Love, Blur

Film: The Shawshank Redemption, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, The Shining, Thelma and Louise, Donnie Darko, The Deer Hunter, A Clockwork Orange, Seven, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, The Commitments, Stand By Me, Dirty Dancing, The Graduate, The Big Lebowski, The Breakfast Club, Annie Hall, Edward Scissorhands, Billy Elliot, Little Miss Sunshine, The Life Aquatic, Moonrise Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore, Juno, 12 Monkeys, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Back to the Future, Quadrophenia, 24 hour Party People, Tron, Before Sunrise, Bonnie and Clyde, Don't Look Now, Searching for Sugar Man, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Mike Leigh, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Taika Waititi, Darren Aronofsky, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, Gus Van Sant, David Lynch, The Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Richard Linklater, Edgar Wright

Literature: American Psycho, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lolita, Revolutionary Road, Watership Down, The Great Gatsby, Fight Club, On the Road, Catch 22, Perfume, The Virgin Suicides, Anne of Green Gables
Comic books: Donald Duck, Lucky Luke, Calvin and Hobbes, Fables, Blue Monday, Scott Pilgrim, Sandman, Ghostworld

TV: Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, Northern Exposure, The X-files, Seinfeld, The Office, Peep Show, The IT Crowd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Parks and Recreation, Flight of the Conchords, Portlandia, Jeeves and Wooster, Glow, Master of None, Stranger Things, Veep, Silicon Valley

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking in Maramures (Northern Romania) and getting a ride with a group of farmers on a horse and buggy, waking up to the call to prayer at sunrise in the Middle East, gazing at the starry night sky in the American South West desert, hiking among the sheep in the Yorkshire Dales, cycling in The Valley of the Kings and Angkor Wat, cycling among the chateaux in France's Loire valley and the lavender fields in Provence, hiking in the Swiss Alps, watching local fishermen haul in the day's catch in a small Southern-Italian village, hiking from Manchester to Sheffield over the Peak District with regular pub stops along the way, spending a couple of lazy days in a bungalow on a secluded and serene beach in Koh Samet (Thailand), American soul pilgrimage (Motown museum in Detroit and Stax museum in Memphis), Manchester music pilgrimage, Washington state TV pilgrimage (Twin Peaks + Northern Exposure), San Francisco beatnik pilgrimage, Brussels comic book pilgrimage, autumn leaves in New England, jazz club hopping in Harlem, intense thunderstorm in the Badlands, visiting Carl Larsson's home in Dalarna, Bangkok streetfood, checking out Bristol's street art, spending Christmas in total darkness above the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway, afternoon tea in the English countryside, experiencing the hectic traffic of Ho Chi Minh City, living in Paris for 5 months and loving every minute of it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Iceland, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

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