CURRENT MISSION

To visit loads of aweosme places and update my collection of comical stories from my haphazard way of life and of meet as many new and interesting people that I can.

ABOUT ME

I am an outgoing person who enjoys travelling and meeting new people. I think I'm quite an open and honest person and I get along with most people. I'm pretty laid back and am up for trying new things and food, :-)

PHILOSOPHY

Have fun and see as much as you can because you don't know when it will all be over.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to participate as much as I can by going to couch surfing gatherings, crashing with fellow couch surfers and hosting them when I return home.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

New to it but keen to get involved

Interessen

I prefer to spend most of my time out and about going on bike rides and swimming if I have free time. I love going to see live music and after spending three years in China without not so much of that I'm keen to start going to some live shows while I'm travelling.
I like to hang out with my friends and am partial to having a drink or three :-p
I am a big fan of films and enjoy going the cinema. I would love to get into some water sports and am determined to learn how to surf at some point. I did start to do a little rock climbing a few years ago and would like to pick that up again and get better at it.
That's kinda the main things I enjoy and I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff I could include like cooking and reading and what not but I feel this is going on a bit too long.

• animals
• dining
• cooking
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• cycling
• surfing
• sports
• rock climbing
• swimming
• history
• mountains

Musik, Filme und Bücher

I like bands such as; Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, B52'S, Hole, Le tigre, Babes in toyland, Sleater Kinney, Katastrophy Wife, Pj Harvey, Deaf cab for cutie, Audio Slave, Metric, +44, Blink 182, Brand new, Anya Marina, The wonder years, Bjork, Billy talent, Bloc party,coco Rosie, The Distillers, sioxsie and the banshees, Girl talk, I am kloot, No doubt, idlewild, James addiction, L7, Kings of Leon, MIA, Man Overboard, Auf Der Maur, Smashing Pumkins, Modest Mouse, A perfect Circle, Portis head, The Shins, Sound garden, Taking back sunday, The white stripes ect.......

Movies; Empire records, Scream, The third man, Charlie and the chocolate factory (Old school), Gia, Girl interrupted, Cruel intentions, The virgin suicides, A guide to recognising your saints, Psycho, Run Lola run, Running with scissors, Thirteen, seven, Fight club, Burn after reading, Drug store cowboy, Spirited away, Howls moving castle, Grave of the fireflys, City of God, Edward Scissor hands, sex, lies and videotape, pulp fiction, taxi driver, It's a wonderful life, and so on and so on .........

Books; love most things by Haruki Murakami, my favourite being The wind up bird chronicles, The catcher in the rye, Naked lunch, Alices adventures in wonderland, A tale of two cities, To kill a mocking bird, Sherlock Holmes, Animal farm, Also love lots of thrillers, Harry potter and I read alot of non fiction books too.

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

I've seen some awesome shit in pretty much everywhere I've been but if I have to choose some favourites I would say going to Cambodia and visiting Angkor wat and learning the history of Cambodia had a big effect on me and it was a brilliant country to visit.
Going into the mountains a few hours away from Beijing and climbing a snow covered Great Wall with just my friends and no one else was one of the best things I've seen and done.
This year I took a trip to the Philippines and went swimming with Whale sharks which were one of the greatest animals I've seen up close, they were so majestic and much bigger than I ever thought.
There's so many more moments I could add to this but these are three of my favourites.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Australia, Cambodia, China, France, Italy, Laos, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Philippines, Spain, Thailand

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Australia, China, United Kingdom