Recent graduate of chemistry from the University of Manchester with a year of academic exchange at McGill University in Montreal and now I am a cocktail bartender! C'est la vie.

Here are my various social media profiles~~

https://www.facebook.com/timothy.gatwick.of.cleethorpe (not sure why I chose this as a nickname...)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrytainton/

and IG: @rldtffs I like film photography/photographique argentique/fotografía analogica

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

Living in one country for all your life is like listening to one band all your life.

Coach surfing obviously saves all its participants a lot of money, but, oddly it provides a much richer experience!

I've been fortunate enough to have got a lot of pleasure from meeting people who are local to the cities I have visited. Because they have shared their knowledge with me and made me feel welcome I have learnt more and have had a better time.

I would like to continue having those experiences and make sure others have them!

Centres d'intérêt

The scientist in me wants to experiment and so I'll give anything a go.

I have a pipe dream of becoming an artist but mainly photography/printing is just for my own pleasure.

Ultimately I'll probably go into research and help push the frontiers of bioinspired nanomaterials and other such green technologies... Hopefully.

But for now I'm throwing myself into bartending as I'd quite like a break from studying. Also, bartending is an internationally demanded talent! Why not make use.

• writing
• street art
• photography
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• cooking
• cocktails
• juggling
• hiking
• camping
• hitchhiking
• photo
• film photography
• ultimate frisbee
• frisbee
• analog photography
• hitch-hiking
• vegetarian cooking
• local culture
• photos
• street photography
• local cuisine
• landscape photography

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Music
Jazz, Funk, Soul, Ska, Latin, Electronic, D&B, Disco, House, Techno, Motown, Indie, Hip Hop etc. open to a lot.

Books
Genres mainly revolve around classics, travel, spiritual, political, historical and some decent fiction.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Have been fortunate enough to hike in the foothills of the Himalayas. By far my greatest walking and camping experience. We traversed a small glacier and walked alongside rivers. Were within the clouds during a thunderstorm. Suffered altitude sickness. Befriended a stray mountain dog called 'Patti'. Will always stay with me.

Hitchhiked down Big Sur and the rest of the west coast of California. Staying in a trailer park commune. Getting a lift off a speed-pursuit training state trooper; a silicon valley engineer and other characters. Slept outside the train station of the Grapes of Wrath town 'Salinas' after receiving all the left overs from a local Taco Bell.

Sat chatting for two hours with a Cuban gentlemen on the Malécon about Cuban politics, ration booklets, tourists, the changing way of Cuban life and other such things.

These are just a selection, but I'm sure I could dig up more. Surely the question should be: what is the next big thing you plan to do...?

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

Well... If you like photography we can definitely shoot together. Either the streets of wherever we are, or we can take portraits. Or spend the day setting up a budget studio and seeing what we can do. I always travel with my trusty Nikon FM2 and plenty of film.

Or, I'd you want to dance, I'd be down. Will happily dance to anything. Have had a tiny amount of street and salsa dance lessons. Can share what I know but there is a good chance you might have to lead...

But also I am a cocktail bartender! If you have a collection of booze/or are indeed visiting me and my collection of booze. We can see what we are able to make~~

Other than that I am outdoorsy (scout leader) and love a hike/camp.

Let me know what you think.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Happy to do the cooking and cleaning to make life a bit easier for the host.

Otherwise I guess I can just break the monotony of everyday life by serving as a hopefully-rewarding guest.

Pays que j'ai visités

Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Mexico, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Canada, United Kingdom