ABOUT ME

I like to pursue different interests all the time, so I get on well with people with passions and the curiosity to explore them. I like not taking things too seriously.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live, maybe...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted a little and surfed a little, also done a fair bit of hitchhiking round Europe and sleeping on pretty awkward surfaces - or lack thereof.

Interests

Nature, films, history

• writing
• books
• film making
• movies
• mountaineering
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Some films I love: City of God, The Royal Tenenbaums, Into the Wild, Harold and Maude, Casablanca, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Magnolia... too many!

Books: anything by Ram Dass, David Foster Wallace, Jon Ronson... some books I like: The Ascent of Humanity, White Teeth, Brave New World, Infinite Jest, Master and Margherita, A Confederacy of Dunces, Crime and Punishment.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked up Mount Fuji in Japan in torrential rain and minus something degrees Celsius. Amazing thing seen: at the top of the mountain, the only other English guy there wearing shorts.
Or hitchhiking for days in the desert in northern Australia, that was warm...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Ecuador, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Scotland