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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Environmental policy and community projects
  • No education listed
  • From Devon
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To be as open as possible to new experiences, people and feelings, grow food and drink tea.

ABOUT ME

I love the stimulation and diversity of cities but crave the wilds frequently. I grow my own food and try and get involved in my community as much as possible as I know this is fundamental to being fulfilled.
I'm fascinated by how humans relate to their environment and work on food issues, climate change and pollution prevention. I'm totally inspired by, and have studied permaculture, and have been involved in the Bristol Transition Town movement.
I love the feeling poetry gives me and that it's a living, organic and beautiful example of something equalling more than the sum of it's parts.
I ride my bike lots too which feels like an extension to me. I drink pots and pots of different types of tea (out of the pot), from the pot (don't forget to warm the pot), and enjoy finding good music and dancing for hours...

PHILOSOPHY

Try to let thinking, feeling, sensing and intuition all be equal parts of my perception.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've just got back from travelling North America where I CS'd with some great people. Now I'm back in Bristol and want to host and show people this creative, diverse, green city.

Interests

  • poetry
  • dancing
  • environment
  • dining
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • music
  • cycling
  • agriculture

Music, Movies, and Books

Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Stephan Harding, Carl Jung, E F Schumacher, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Richard Brautigan, John Steinbeck, Keates

Music - folk, new folk, dub, dubstep, reggae, Berlin house, anything with depth or a beat which will get me moving.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know about bikes, agriculture, growing food on a small scale, environmental philosophy, permaculture, globalisation and the various communities of Bristol, which is a very special place.
There are so many things I'd like to learn. I'm open. Teach me please.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Fiji, France, India, Kenya, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Tanzania, Tunisia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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