CURRENT MISSION

To explore, experience, and discover

ABOUT ME

I`m open, curious and adventurous. I love meeting new people and hearing their stories, perhaps over a beer in a shadowy wood-pannelled bar I arrived in just a few hours before. And I love wandering alone through the streets of an unfamiliar town, losing myself in the ebb and flow of people and eyeing up the strange architecture. Mountains n forests n streams and wandering among them with a bed on one's back is wonderful too.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I couchsurf wherever I can, and host people when at rest in London.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couchsurfed in loadsa places around Europe and South America, reaching them by foot, thumb, bike, bus and plane.

Interests

people, the lives of my friends, books of all kinds (novels, poetry, history, politics, wildlife, DIY guides etc), discussions (but not debates), music (listening to, sadly not playing), art and art galleries, walking and cycling and camping and cooking spaghetti on a small stove on a mountainside, nature and animal life, self-subsistent living, dancing and talking and dissolving self-consciousness like Beatniks, films, food, wine and intoxication, psychoanalysis, other people´s interests.

• animals
• wildlife
• arts
• books
• poetry
• diy
• dancing
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• walking
• politics
• movies
• music
• cycling
• camping
• swimming
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Camus, Sartre, Hesse, Woolf, Lessing, Henry Miller, David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Laurie Lee, Kerouac, Hunter S, Conrad, Franzen, George Eliot, Will Self, Nietzsche, Foucault, Gormenghast, Keats, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Larkin, Hardy (but not his novels!), Plath, Dickinson, Burnside, Ted Hughes, Lawrence, and many more.

Music: Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, The Flaming Lips, Galaxie 500, Sparklehorse, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Patti Smith, The Shins, Boards of Canada, The Unicorns, Blind Rabbit, and lots lots more.

Movies: Eternal Sunshine, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Edward Scissorhands, Spirited Away, Godfatherssss, Dazed and Confused, Pan´s Labyrinth, The Big Sleep, Weekend n Breathless, loads more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wilting into unconsciousness as a friend (thanks becca!) and I bounced along sub-saharan tracks in a horse-drawn cart bared to the sun on our way to the local hospital to learn if I had malaria...