CURRENT MISSION

My current mission, while I am still at University, is to improve at jazz double bass, read a lot of the classic novels and become more film literate. In the long term, to become a conflict photojournalist.

ABOUT ME

Hello, I am Nathaniel, I am a student studying in Amsterdam, though originally from the UK. I love music and photography. I love to spend my time cycling, cooking reading and jamming.

I tend to have rather bizarre dreams.

PHILOSOPHY

All you need in life is Love, Food and Art

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It has been absoultely brilliant, everyone I have stayed with has been so welcoming and so interesting.

Interests

Photography, Theatre, Literature, Music, Art, People and Cultures, History, Film, Food and Cooking, Physics, Maths, Science in general, Busking, Absurdity, Urban Exploring, building and fixing bicycles, Whisky.

• arts
• literature
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• cycling
• history
• mathematics
• physics
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Freddie Hubbard, James Brown, Maceo Parker, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Young Blood Brass Band, Cat Empire, Toots and the Maytals, The Skatalites, Babyhead, Madness, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Beethoven, Schoenberg, The Specials, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Fat Freddy's Drop, Jehst, Roots Manuva, Cunin Lymguists, Hieroglyphics, Phi-Life-Cypher, Foreign Beggars, MF Doom, Nujabes, James Brown, Etta James, Nina Simone, Charles Mingus, Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf, Paco de Lucia, Rodrigo y Gabriela, John Fairhurst, Aretha Franklin, Peggy Lee, Biggie, Wu Tang, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, King Tubby, Errol Garner, Thelonius Monk, Esperanza Spalding, and many more, music is important.

As for books, Dostoyevsky, Zola, Wilde, Voltaire, Shakespeare, Swift, Camus, Nietzsche, Lee, Coatzee, Mann, Austen, Stevenson, Dickens, Pinter, Fitzgerald...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watched a sunset over monument valley, crossed a road in Delhi and lived, Cycled over the alps (the maritime ones aswell), Saw the Milky Way, Walked through the Atlas Mountains, Motorbiked the length of Vietnam.

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to learn anything absolutely anything, I would especially love to jam with any traveling musicians. As for what I can teach, perhaps a bit of quantum theory, or how to make the best rice pudding in the world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United Kingdom