CURRENT MISSION

Happyness.

ABOUT ME

visited 24 states (10.6%)Create your own visited map of The World

Like most people I would love to see the whole world; but I have not even seen most of Australia (or visited the closest neighbour to Sydney - New Zealand). Hopefully in the next few years I will be able to take some long holidays and do some more adventurous and long trips in Central Asia or Africa. One day I might own a bigger yacht which will take me to across the oceans to see more of the world from water too. Next time I go to Europe I would like to organise a cycling trip around Estonia and then perhaps a road trip south and through Eastern Europe. I would love to organise a charter yacht and sail the Turkish coast and Greek Isles. For some unknown reason I would also like to tour around Sumatra (Indonesia) - I quite like Indonesian food :)

PHILOSOPHY

Eat the fish.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting and couchsurfing. Drinking, eating and meeting new people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Anita in Wien. Jana in Prague. Many people in Estonia and Spain. I also met many people in Wien in July 2006 because they were there for the CS congress. I've hosted a few people in Sydney; attended meetings around Europe; met many CS members along the way, especially in Estonia.

Interests

Food, wine, classical music, sailing. I enjoy cooking - especially rustic simple foods. I like to make my own pasta and sausages. My favourite cuisines to cook are Indian, Italian, Middle Eastern, Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian. I like trying new foods from different cultures and learning new recipes.

I am a member of our local community garden and enjoy eating organic in-season fresh food.

I am not a raver or too much of a nightclub person. I do enjoy going out for dinner and/or drinks. I love a good conversation. I do tend to stay out too late sometimes, not getting home until after the birds are awake.

I like beer and wine and consume these to excess.

I enjoy simple pleasures, hiking and camping - although I do not do enough of it.

Earlier in 2009 I was on the delivery crew for a luxury sailing catamaran which we sailed from Sydney to the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland. Awesome experience. I would like to do some more ocean sailing.

• birds
• fish
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• wine
• beer
• drinking
• gardening
• yachting
• music
• classical music
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• camping
• sailing

Music, Movies, and Books

Mahler, 5th Symphony
Rachmaninof, 2nd Piano Concerto
Phillip Glass, 'Koyanisqqatsi' Soundtrack
Pink Floyd, Wish you were here.

Bach, Beethoven, Cream, The Doors, Led Zepplin, Indonesian Gamelan, Afro-Cuban, Brasilian jazz/Bosa Nova James Brown, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Sam Cook, Santana, Kraftwerk, The Cookie Monster ('C is for cookie - that's good enough for me!').

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (especially 'Love in the Time of Cholera'), Hermen Hesse (especially 'The Glass Bead Game'). I've read almost everthing those two have written. I left my copy of Louis de Bernières 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' in Frankfurt airport - now I will never know how the second world war ended.

2001: A Space oddyssy
Doctor Zhivago
Mon Oncles (Jacques Tati)
Koyanisqqatsi
Brazil (Terry Gilliam)

'Ground Hog Day', Nietzsche's eternal return, 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day'.

William Blake ('The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'),
Dylan Thomas ('Quite Early One Morning'),
Thomas Stern Elliot ('The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock').

Caravaggio.

The chant of the Seraphim. The murmur of water. Brass bands.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing experience in life is to be in love.

Teach, Learn, Share

Be nice to people.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Monaco, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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