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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning Arabic, Sinhala, Sinhalese, Spanish
  • Unspecified age, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • Self employed Project Engineer consulting on a series of ...
  • Post grad qualifications. College education, vocational e...
  • From Conway, North Wales
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Final preparations for project start in Asia and South Africa

ABOUT ME

Stepped out of the rat race 5 years ago after 23 years as a marine engineer.
Full time single parent.
Now I work at my pace - for the time being at least!

PHILOSOPHY

Live on the edge from time to time - it helps me to focus on real issues instead of frivolous or unimportant things.

Interests

Good company
My motorcycle
Vocational teaching
Getting out to the countryside

  • engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - listen to anything once!!
Movies - The Fisher King; The Twilight Samurai; Friends & Crocodiles;
Books - The works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailed up into the Arctic Circle mid December in a flat calm sea. Permanent darkness, almost no roll on the ship and absolute silence then the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) began to light up the sky. Such a surreal, mesmeric experience that we lost all sense of time - and temperature!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guadeloupe, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Montserrat, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Yemen

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Gibraltar, Oman, Spain, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom

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