CURRENT MISSION

It's university holidays so I'm leaving the Australian summer behind for the chance to explore wintery North America.

COME AT ME, SNOW.

ABOUT ME

I teach English lit and creative and academic writing at an Australian university. I love writing stories and I have a passion for history, especially eleventh century Norman and Byzantine stuff. I love DC Comics, Twin Peaks, classic Russian writers, and Frank Zappa. I first fell in love with travelling when I went to New Zealand and six months in Iceland made travel a passion. I once followed the route of the First Crusade through Turkey and Israel to research a story.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Smuggling cigarettes and whiskey in kangaroo pouches to various outback couchsurfing rave parties.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in Turkey and Israel back in the early 2010s and it was great. Those were some of the best travelling experiences of my life and some of those hosts are still my good friends. Now I am out and about on holiday again.

兴趣

Writing manuscripts and silly radio plays, reading literature and comic books. I own a few too many Doctor Who, Star Trek, and James Bond blu rays. I may own multiple suits of armour but I swear I got them for research. I'm a sucker for a castle or a Byzantine church. Mosaics make me tingle.

• writing
• books
• literature
• partying
• reading
• traveling
• drawing

音乐、电影和书籍

Dostoevsky, Chekov, the Brontes, Camus, Austen, Pushkin, 'The Thousand Nights and One Nights', 'Journey to the West' and plenty of others. Movie-wise, David Lynch is a god. TV-wise, too, because 'Twin Peaks'. Music, well, Frank Zappa is always on top. Andrews Sisters, Sun Ra, Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Melvins, Frank Sinatra. Then more Zappa.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Driven a camel-powered car.

教，学，和分享

I can draw you a special commemorative French baby chicken.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

My boon companionship. And, if you are ever dishonoured, I will avenge your dishonour. Forsooth!

我游览过的国家

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

Hungary, Iceland

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