I'm an outgoing, friendly and optimistic guy, currently living in Manchester working for Expedia. My girlfriend and I had our first child Matti in September 2016.

PHILOSOPHY

"You never look back on your life and remember the nights you got plenty of sleep"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Mainly I'm a surfer, but I host occasionally. I was pretty active in the Munich and Leeds community. My girlfriend and I met at a CS meetup - so our baby is a couchsurfing baby!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted in Finland, France, Germany & the UK. Surfed in Finland, Ireland, Germany, Austria & Ireland.

Interests

Festivals, Photography, Travel, Drum & Bass, Urban Exploration, Watching sports, Cooking, Good Food, Red Wine, Irish Whisky & Guinness, Sauna

But not all at the same time.

• photography
• glastonbury
• festivals
• oktoberfest
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• red wine
• sauna
• partying
• gardening
• boating
• traveling
• watching sports
• cycling
• sports
• rugby
• beaches
• mountains
• urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

The Lives of Others, Inglorious Basterds, Die Welle, Das Experiment, The Godfather, 28 Days Later, This is England, American History X, Four Lions, American Psycho, Trainspotting, Blow, Watchmen, Life of Brian, Gran Torino, The Kings Speech, The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Delicatessen, I Served the King of England, The Royal Tenenbaums, Walk the Line, Control, This is Spinal Tap, Eagle vs Shark, Zoo, Bjarnfredarsson, The Last King of Scotland, Milk, Goodbye Lenin, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Munich, American Beauty, Human Traffic, Pulp Fiction, The Damned United, Smala Sussie, Django Unchained, Sin City, Persepolis

George Orwell, Bill Bryson, Khaled Hosseini, Gregory David Roberts, Haruki Murakami

Dnb, Jungle, Reggae, Dub, Dubstep, Indie, Britpop, Acoustic, Ska, UK Hip-Hop, Folk-Pop, Balkan, German hip hop

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2007 First travel outside of the UK, to India!
2008/09 Drum and Bass nights, and realising my passion for rugby league in Leeds
2009/10 Drunken lazy days by the river on the Neckarwiese, falling off bikes and exploring in Heidelberg
2011 Summer of Festivals (Glade, Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party & Shambala)
Winter/Spring 2012 Northern Lights, Sauna, -35 temperatures and Parties in Finland
2012/13 Couchsurfing events, even more Sauna, Oktoberfest, snowy mountains and the Isar in Munich
Summer 2013 Cycling 1000km+ from Strasbourg to Budapest in one month
2013 Amazing friendly people, beautiful beaches and boat trips off the coast of Turkey, living in the amazing city that is Istanbul
2014 St Patricks Day in Dublin
2015 Lisbon & Porto, Prague, May Day in Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Back to Munich, Road Trip around Spain Barcelona/Soria/Basque Country/Zaragoza/Barcelona, Hamburg & Copenhagen
2016 Three weeks in SE Asia (Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand), My son is born! Germany then the Czech Republic for Christmas and NY.
2017 Saw in the new year on a Prague Old Town rooftop with my fiancée and best friend. Moved to Manchester.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm not bad at photography, and have an aptitude for fixing electronic things! I can cook. Oh, and I'm quite good at English, so I'm told, so if you're not a native speaker I can help you with language. I´m also a dab hand at Excel and will bore you will all things contact centre related if you give me the chance!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, France, Germany, Turkey, United Kingdom

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