CURRENT MISSION

Listening, adventuring, growing, eating, laughing -all as much as possible.

ABOUT ME

I like little things. I like exploring. I'm quite chaotic. And curious. I'm interested in stories, in flavours, in memories and voices, in empty places. I want to eat long long suppers, drink wine, coffee, adventure, record, chatter. I can be excitable and positive but I'm not a morning person. At the moment I'm doing a PhD about memory, food and place, in Bristol and the Venetian lagoon... and then, well then I think we're going to try to take care of a little piece of earth in Catalunya.

PHILOSOPHY

Appreciating, noticing, caring.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Trust. I think I joined couch surfing in 2003 -- it was before 'the crash', then I re-discovered it when it popped back up. Over the years I've shared many bottles of wine & nights of stories; food & space, as a host, a guest and a friend.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Like everybody here, I have couch surfed without a website, but couchsurfing.com has taken me to Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and around home in the British Isles...

Interests

Being outside, Seeds, growing food, .
Windy days. Eating
cook books, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, word-books, square books - square photographs
coming across, finding, discovering
Stories, memories, voices, wine
Cooking surrounded by friends, wrapped in music, wine glass in hand, candles lit
food shops, food smells, recipes,
Coffee!
Strangers & Friends
places, spaces, Random happenings
printing a photograph.
Duvets
Paragliding, Squash,
swimming, walking along rivers
words, alone, together, words that make poems, new words, foreign words
camping, Hot baths, log fires, sleeping, snoozing
Faces. finishing a sketch book.
Getting lost,
travelling alone
Falling in love
dialects and idioms
Driving, being a passenger in the dark
being in bed in storms
Maps. afternoon light and evening shadows

• books
• poetry
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• wine
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• traveling
• scrapbooking
• music
• surfing
• paragliding
• swimming
• cartography
• dialects
• languages
• rivers
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Robert Macfarlane is my hero.
I like music happened across, outside, unexpected.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

couch surfing --when sometimes what started as an internet page results in long friendships. (perhaps this doesn't seem as novel these days but I still think it holds true)

Teach, Learn, Share

I love cooking together, working together, drinking together. I think I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none, but I will answer any question with care.

I hope I'm open enough to learn anything and everything you may be able to teach me. I'd like to learn things I haven't even thought of yet.

I'd love to speak Catalan -- I'm right at the beginning - any help gratefully received!

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United Kingdom

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