Currently traveling Europe: www.mrjjwilson.com

I love travelling and believe everyone who can travel should do it!

I'm a software developer, focused on Android mobile app development and freelancing at the moment.

Born and raised in London, lived in Uganda for a short time when I was a child.

The more I travel, the more I want to see the rest of the world and I enjoy speaking with other travellers, finding out something interesting not widely known about another part of the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love experiencing the culture when I travel to a new place and believe that couchsurfing is a great way to do this by meeting locals. I pick up the basics of new languages quite quickly and like to greet people with their native language.

Once I have settled somewhere, I look forward to hosting people on their travels and learning something new from my guests.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I have stayed with many hosts and met many travellers on my journey so far. It has been amazing, the best travel decision I have made was to create a Couchsurfing profile!
I have kept a blog about my experience, current link is here: www.mrjjwilson.com

Interests

- Travelling!
- Exercise (mainly Calisthenics)
- Reading
- Partying
- Programming
- Mentoring
- Public speaking
- Carnivals around the world
- and more that i've forgotten to list

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC

I mainly listen to UK Grime/HipHop/RnB/Soca/House/Mainstream club music, but I can listen to most genres outside of that for a short while.
Classical music is great for moments of deep concentration.

PODCASTS

I started listening to Podcasts in 2014 and they have been amazing! I highly recommend listening to podcasts, so easy to learn something new about a topic you like while commuting, cooking, etc.

I use the PocketCasts app on Android.

Current podcasts:

Tim Ferriss, Eric Thomas, Fragmented (Android Developers), Android Developers Backstage.
I listened to the first season of the Serial Podcast, that was amazing, I still go back and forth about who actually did it!

I recommend you pick only a small handful, I made the mistake of subscribing to 10+ podcasts and then when I missed a week because of a holiday, I was overwhelmed with the amount of episodes I had to catch up on. It then felt like a chore, so I trimmed down to the best ones, much more manageable that way.

MOVIES

I mainly like action and horror movies but i do like other genres.

A short list of favourites that come to mind at the time of writing:
Training Day, Flight, American Gangster, DejaVu, Inception, Social Network, The last House on the Left, Hostel 1-3, Batman:The Dark Knight & DK Rises,
The Rock! (Nicholas Cage), A Beautiful Mind, The Pursuit of Happiness

BOOKS

The majority of my books are non-fiction but the fiction books I have recently read have been amazing.

Short list of favourite books so far:

- Built to sell (by John Warillow)
- The Alchemist (by Paulo Coelho)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (by Dale Carnegie)
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad (by Robert Kiyosaki)
- The Richest Man in Babylon (by George S. Clason)
- The Martian (by Andy Weir)
- High Society (by Ben Elton)
- Twelve Pillars (Jim Rohn)

I am always open to new book suggestions, so drop me a message if you have any!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- 4 month Couchsurfing travel around Europe (March - July 2016)
- 100mile night time bike ride for St Crispins Day (2014)
- Zip-lining in Oslo backwards (2015), it's a must wherever you do it! Try it!
- Canoe boat in Entebbe at the source of the River Nile and the fish after! (2013)

Teach, Learn, Share

I love reading, mainly non-fiction and sharing what I've learnt from them and my world travels so far.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my travelling experiences so far and also teach on what I know:

- Budget planning and money management,
- Software development (I focus on mobile apps at the moment),
- Fitness and nutrition (I LOVE calisthenics)

I also know a few cooking recipes and have a lot of experience in bulk cooking :-).

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom