CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life!

ABOUT ME

Well Neer (my husband) and I are in our late twenties/ early thirties - met at university in Manchester (North West England) and have been married since 2008.

With our colourful backgrounds, we love nothing more than exploring life outside our front door.

Neer was born and bred in London, across the road from the world-famous Wembley Stadium. His parents however, were born and raised in East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), with Indian ancestry.

I, Karen, was born in Los Andes - a sleepy, idyllic, Andean village in the heart of Chile. With my Chilean Mother and British Father, I moved to the UK when I was 8 and have lived there ever since.

We decided, after years of working in Central London´s rat race to see what else life has to offer and vowed to explore new cultures before settling down and having children etc etc...

We´re both experienced travellers, so decided a year would give us enough time to see our two ancestral regions: Latin America and Asia.

In May 2010, we waved goodbye to our loved ones and set off on our jouney to discover the gems of Latin America for 6 months and Asia for the latter 6 months.

PHILOSOPHY

Lao Tsu summarised it best when he said "be still like a mountain and flow like a great river."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Never couch surfed before but have been told it´s the way forward by many wonderful people so we are giving it a go!

Interests

Travelling, music, hiking, food, cooking, sports, films, art, photography, deep and light hearted chats, laughing, dancing, chilling, football (soccer), fashion, learning new cultures, foreign languages, bargaining/haggling... having fun!

• arts
• fashion
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• seafood
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• sports
• soccer
• genealogy
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

So many, here are some off the top of our heads:
Forrest Gump, City of Gods, La Haine, Motorcycle Diaries, Scarface, La Vita e Bella, Y Con Tu Mama Tambien, X-Men 1,2 and 3, Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, Goodfellas, Sex in the City 1 and 2, Coming to America, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Changing Places

Our fave books of all time are: Open Veins of Latin America and MacMafia - cool books! All classics and of course anything by Roald Dahl.

Music - here goes, please note this is only a selection of genres, otherwise we´ll be here all day...
Hip-hop, Reggae, Garage, House, Drum n´Bass, Dubstep, Dub, Motown, Soul, Swing, Classical, Blues, Jazz, Hip-hop, Latin (Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Bachata, Samba etc), Rock, Indie Pop, Cape Verdean music, Chillout, Spanish Guitar, Sitar, Tabla

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed Mount Kiliminjaro, survived SARS, hiked 60km from Nebaj to Todos Santos in Guatemala, climbed Volcan Tajamulco - the highest point in Central America, learnt Spanish in 3 months, learnt the basics of Mandarin

Teach, Learn, Share

We can cook and share our culinary knowledge. Neer cooks a mean Keralan Seafood Curry and Kenyan Cassava Soup, Fajitas and soooo much more.

Karen can teach Salsa and the basics of cookie and cake making!

Countries I’ve Visited

Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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