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Overview

  • 9 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish
  • 39, Other
  • Member since 2011
  • English teacher/ Foreign trader
  • Both degree level
  • From Bristol and the island of Jersey UK
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To travel to new places and see new things, enjoy the simple things in life.

ABOUT ME

We are a couple of British monkeys who have been together for eight years. We are living and working in Zhuhai,, Guangdong (CHINA). We were both working in Jersey UK for three years following graduation before heading out for a year long travel mission spanning SE Asia, New Zealand (with campervan), South America and North America.

We both enjoy a good balance of getting out and about, drinking, being active, sightseeing and relaxing with friends.

Paul kept a blog of our travels: http://paulbaileytravel.blogspot.com/

Now we are staying in one place, we welcome surfers to come and stay with us :)

PHILOSOPHY

When in Rome... yes? Do as the Romans do...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We host surfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have couchsurfed in New Zealand 3 times and South America 3 times and have loved staying with locals, getting sound advice and having lots of fun :) Time to make a hosting deposit into the favour bank!

Interests

Eating (SEAFOOD!!), music, sightseeing, socialising, English football, new experiences

  • seafood
  • cooking
  • partying
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • blogging
  • music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • fishing
  • camping
  • bungee jumping
  • soccer
  • sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: In to the Wild, Anchorman, Stanley Kubrick, films with Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, Uma Thurman

Music: Radiohead, The National, Flight of the Conchords, Placebo, Mylo, electro, all sorts really

Books: Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials, Bonfire of the Vanities, Neil Gaiman, George Orwell, Classics, Non-Fiction on where we visit

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

So far...
Learning to dive, partying with the Akha tribes in Laos, visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia, getting acquainted with leeches in the Taman Negara (Malaysia) rainforest, camping and bungee jumping in New Zealand, visiting Isla De Pascua (Easter Island), making friends with sea lions in the Galapagos islands, fishing for piranhas in the Amazon, mountain biking the world's most dangerous road, horse riding and visiting the salt flats in Boliva and making friends with lots and lots of great people

Teach, Learn, Share

We both speak fluent English and now warmed up on our basic Spanish, French and Mandarin Chinese
Play guitar (14 years) and happy to teach
Computer games skills
Cooking

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