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Overview

  • 6 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Dutch, French, German, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • coming up with implausible ideas
  • BEng Product Design and Engineering
  • From Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To have fun, learn and educate.

ABOUT ME

I live in Falmouth in Cornwall at the moment, where there is a lot of time for surfing at the beach. I'm pretty outgoing and love talking to people, especially people from around the world with new perspectives on things. I'm quite creative and i love to make things, both from wood, metal and other hardware as well as electronic gadgets. I also love nature and all the fruits it has to offer.

PHILOSOPHY

The grass is always greener on the other side so learn to appreciate your side. (this is quite hard). Do unto others as you want to be done unto yourself. (this is easier)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to be able to show people from around the world, the hidden gems of my lovely home county, cornwall. Also i would love to recieve the same in places that i travel to.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have friends that have travelled by couch surfing, and have shown around some people that have couch surfed.

Interests

Surfing all over the world, skating on fun ramps, listening to good music, dancing to good music, making things, using machinery and tools to make things, drinking with my friends, having lovely days at the beach.

  • design
  • dancing
  • partying
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • music
  • surfing
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I liked requiem for a dream and run lola run. I love watching films and definately don't have a favorite, but they are just 2 that came to mind that i was really impressed by.
I realy enjoyed reading 1984 recently. I'm reading crime and punishment now and it's pretty interesting. There are characters that can know practically someones life story just from the way that they are glanced at.
Good music that i listen to recently: Moderat, Major Lazer, Burial, The Rolling Stones, The Detroit Cobras, Frankie Laine, DJ Shadow, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lying on some sand dunes at night time in the middle of the Thar desert in northwest India, with a lightning storm going on around us, when a gap in the clouds opened above us and there happened to be a meteor shower just above us. Amazing

Teach, Learn, Share

Any idea or design that you might have is always made better by a contribution from another party. If you don't think the idea has been changed for the better by the other party, then you haven't communicated your idea well enough in the first place. 2 minds is always better than 1. 3 minds is always better than 2.......

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Senegal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Togo, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United Kingdom

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