CURRENT MISSION

To bake a spiritual cake of inner peace and tranquility and share it with the world!

ABOUT ME

Hearing different peoples stories of how they've experience life in different cities is something that really interests me, I think this is why I joined CS and travel as much as I can.

PHILOSOPHY

I think 3 years of studying modules in philosophy, virtual reality and existentialism had an extremely detrimental affect to my grip on reality. Now I just spend my time bouncing of it's seams and slowly unpicking the stitching...

...but I still have the most rockin' time doing it!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love meeting people from different ends of the earth because it gives you a real look at what the rest of the world is really like, rather than what you see in the Media. I love hosting people, and being able to treat others to the particular places in my cities which have been extra special for me. It really makes a great journey when you see the world that way. I'm a born traveler, and love to get a taste of what lifestyles are like in different cultures. The same goes for when I travel, this are the parts I really want to see!

Having friends from all over the world is a brilliant feeling, opens your mind and puts you in touch your world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The best thing about moving to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2011/2012 was being able to have my friends come and visit whenever they wanted, free of charge to stay on my sofa and have a crazy weekend. It's almost a right of passage once you get to 18 to travel the 45 minutes flight from London to Amsterdam and experience a world so different from your own. Being able to help accommodate other to experience this feeling for people brought all it's own rewards. I went through the same process, fell in love with the city and made it my mission to live here for a little while before adventuring onto wilder and greater things.

My friend told my about couch-surfing, and quickly I began hosting strangers, travelers and visitors in the same way. The whole essence of couch-surfing appealed to me before I even knew what it was, so quickly I built up a group of like-minded, adventurous friends from all corners of the Earth. The stories of their own adventures from different areas (although not as good as traveling yourself) is enough to satisfy my traveling urges in those too often occasions when life pins to you down to a particular place for whatever reason...

Interests

I love music, live-gig and making music. I play piano and guitar and love the whole music process and entertaining people.

The other thing which has become quite an obsessive hobby of mine is film-making. I've set up my own productions group in Amsterdam which produces music videos, live concert records, promotional videos, documentaries and occasionally fictional works.

• documentaries
• perfumes
• concerts
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• piano
• surfing
• communications
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

O.K. this is no-where near exhaustive.

I really do like reading, but as students know, you end up having to read like 3 textbooks for every 1 chosen book that you actually WANT to read. Currently, I'm reading IT by Stephen King ... I've jumped aboard the Stephen King train, and this I think is one of the best... although, it's not really bedtime reading.

The last film I watched was Beerfest. I always suggest to people who travel around Europe to watch some trashy European holiday type film. Eurotrip obviously comes to mind, Taken and Hostel (for all the thriller lovers). I have a pretty wide taste when it comes to films.

Again with music it's a lot broader for me. I love learning new music and hearing local bands and music festivals. I generally tend to like the more extreme/periphery forms of music... rather than commercial cheese/chart stuff. Rock/Metal/Jungle/DnB/Dubstep/Punk/Psytrance etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was around 16/17, I was on a remote beach (of about 1KM in diameter) which functioned as a Sea Turtle Sanctuary off the NE coast of Borneo/Malaysia and spent the night in a little hut on the beach with my mother and two younger siblings. During the middle of the night, around 2AM we watched a giant turtle give birth to around 150 eggs and then crawl back into the sea. The wardens of the island collect the eggs and place them into the sanctuary to avoid being eaten by the crazy number of predators infant turtles have. The next morning, a number of turtle eggs that had been laid a few weeks before had hatched and we all carried baby sea turtles - fitting around 3 in the palm of your hand - down to the sea shore and waded into the sea with them, and released them. The ones which survive will be back in a number of decades to lay their own eggs. We were told these turtles always return to the same beach where they were born when they give birth, it's a natural instinct.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom