ABOUT ME

finished studying geography at the uni of nottingham. headined to burkina faso to volunteer for 3 months in 2011. Started an olive oil business, and travelled for 5 months in south america.
Lived in Andalucia and Barcelona, making videos and teaching english, and now I work in london (for the last 5 years), making videos for a children's charity.

in my gap year a year-long trip of cuba and central america and SE ASIA, where i had to learn spanish to survive and then onto south east asia, Visiting practically every country. I still need to tweak the way i travel. I met such welcoming people with vibrant cultures and traditional ways of life...Especially in Burma.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

mi sofe es tu sofa.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

about 10 around europe, a few in asia. a few in south america. awesome with every one. puts your faith back into people

Interests

Love folk music and playing guitar. also getting into calypso music at the moment. Anything from Johnny Cash to the Beatles to Green Day.
Im a keen videogapher.

• running
• traveling
• music
• folk music
• guitar
• business
• geography
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies; favorites;
american history x, dead poets society, Oldboy, Requiem for a dream, delicatessen, natural born killers, amelie, pi, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, Pan's labyrinth. die welle. pulp fiction, inglorious bastards, mud, the cove,
Books;
Steinbeck's cannery row, His Dark Materials, Dylan's chronicles, Fitzgerald, Lonely Planet

Music;
cake, langhorne slim, buddy holly, gomez, ash, decemberists, the holloways, vincent v and the villains, the raveonettes, the strokes, johnny cash, elvis, dandy warhols, eels, less than jake, velvet underground, old crow medicine show, the shins, stereophonics

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Snorkelled with 10metre long whale sharks in the philippines.
Had a run-in with the burmese junta on a train from mandalay.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Guitar music, (basic!) indian cooking, conversations about international affairs,

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Laos, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Spain

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