I live in London and teach English as a foreign language to students from a wide range of countries. I sing, write songs and play the guitar and have also written for a couple of music magazines. I've written a novel called 'The Assassination of Adolf Hitler'. I'm currently working on a new (non-fiction) book. My social life tends to be centred around music and I go to a lot of gigs.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It looks like a great way to meet interesting and adventurous people.

Interests

Cinema, books, music, travelling, writing.

• writing
• books
• singing
• dining
• wine
• beer
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - jazz (Coltrane, Ellington, Mingus), alt-country/Americana (Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, Okkervil River, Johnny Cash), reggae (Culture, Black Uhuru), Ennio Morricone, Phil Ochs, Tom Waits and lots more

Movies - Orson Welles, Sam Peckinpah, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Bunuel, Sergio Leone etc etc

Books - Thomas Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, Arthur Koestler, Yukio Mishima, Ralph Ellison, Shusaku Endo, Poe Ballantine, George Saunders

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once rode a camel across the Sahara on Christmas Day and I've also climbed Mount Fuji.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Free English lessons and/or beer/wine/food etc!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom