Hi!

I'm an avid traveller and outdoors enthusiast, I love most extreme sports (snowboarding, (kite) surfing, wakeboarding, cliff jumping etc. etc.) and just being in nature (hiking, swimming in rivers/lakes/sea etc). I'm down to send it even if the water's cold! I also really enjoy (fly) fishing although I'm not very good yet!

I'm pretty easy going, don't get annoyed easily and always down to find somewhere scenic to chill. A cold beer goes down pretty smooth in the evening.

I studied Physics at university and I like sharing about my perspective on how the world works with other people if they are interested! I'm currently working as a snowboard instructor in Fernie before I go back to the UK to start a PhD in Astrophysics.

I listen to a lot of very varied music and love sharing it with others.

I like meeting other interesting people and sharing experiences over a beer/coffee/juice/?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To be able to explore new places through the eyes of people living locally rather than as a detached tourist

Interests

• beer
• jazz
• fishing
• hiking
• skiing
• snowboarding
• philosophy
• science
• techno
• doom metal
• astrophysics
• artificial intelligence
• wild swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

FILMS
Snatch, City of God, Victoria, First Reformed, Old Boy (Korean Version), The Lives of Others, Apocalypse Now, Silence of the Lambs, The Matrix, The Revenant, Dunkirk, The Witch, Ghost In The Shell (Anime not the film!), The Dark Knight, Raw, Moon, Fantastic Mr Fox, Get Out, Hunt For the Wilderpeople, Starred Up, True Grit, Interstellar, American Psycho

MUSIC
Pharoah Sanders, Aphex Twin, Al Green, Alice & John Coltrane, Andrew Weatherall, Drexciya, Big L, Black Sabbath, Bulbous Creation, Underground Resistance, Convextion, DJ Bone, DJ Assault, DJ Stingray, The Doors, Dopplereffekt, Dorothy Ashby, Eazy E, Egyptian Lover, Electric Wizard, Eminem, Fatima, Gang Starr, Gesloten Cirkel, Mr Fingers, Ghostface Killah, Gil Scott Heron, Helena Hauff, Horace Andy, Jeff Mills, Jeru the Damaja, Moodymann, Kraftwerk, Lena Willikens, Mad Mike, Margaret Dygas, Basic Channel, Melvins, Sleep, Sunn O))), Pink Floyd, Midori Takada, Miles Davis, Mobb Deep, Mos Def, Muslimgauze, Nas, Nightmares on Wax, Nils Frahm, Nina Simone, Nirvana, Notorious BIG, Om, Omar S, Wu Tang Clan, Pete Rock, Livity Sound, Plastikman, Portishead, Radioactive Man, Raekwon, Rainforest Spiritual enslavement, Reddog, Theo Parrish, A Tribe Called Quest, William Onyeabor, Yusef Lateef, JJ Cale, Robbie Basho

TLDR - techno, jazz, hip hop, psych rock, doom metal

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Riding semi-feral horses through the Altai mountains

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music, stories, beer, food

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, England, Germany