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Overview

  • 16 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, German
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • no occupation at the moment!
  • Shrewsbury High School, Aberystwyth University, Hochschul...
  • From shrewsbury
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I love couch surfing now, so my aim is to use it as much as possible!

ABOUT ME

Having recently graduated from Aberystwyth University where I studied Fine Art and German I am now at home till November, working for a while. I would welcome any couch surfers with open arms. I know that couch surfing and interesting stories go hand in hand and when I host people it makes me want to go and travel more myself! I do love travelling and going on spontaneous trips anywhere and everywhere, whether it be a local trip to a national park or a flight to somewhere completele new I am up for it!
I am someone who likes to be busy all the time and cannot sit still. I hate wasting time and always try to fit as much in the day as possible. I aim to have the most fun in everything I do. I am convinced you can make nearly everything in life fun if you just look at it a different way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couch surfed 4 nights altogether on my way to Budapest from Vienna. Really enjoyed it as all hosts were so different. Sometimes it was a bit of a challenge finding the exact place where they lived but when i got there it was well worth it for the valuable company and lovely people and cultures i got to know. It is a brilliant way of bringing the world to you if you can't go to that country yourself!
Also couch surfed while staying in Kassel, Germany for the weekend whilst doing the marathon there. Great, friendly host and so glad I was able to couch surf, unbelievably convenient.
Since then I have also enjoyed hosting people. It feels good to give something back to the couch surfing world!
Couch surfing also came in useful for my UK cycling tour. Each host was completely different. That's oartly why I love couch surfing- you just never know what to expect!

Interests

Swimming- in the pool and especially in the sea in all weathers. I love it sooo much!
Rock Climbing, or just climbing anything really, indoors or out.
Running
Cycling and Unicycling. :) Just getting really into long distance bike rides, it's a great way to see the world; so practical and cheap and not that much slower than public transport!
Painting and drawing have been lifelong passions of mine.

  • arts
  • marathon
  • running
  • traveling
  • billiards
  • painting
  • drawing
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • rock climbing
  • swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Books-all time fave is Harry Potter! Also-Cycling from home to Siberia,
Films-Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Man on Wire, Doctor Who, Mr.Bean, Sherlock Holmes etc action, action, action, action!
Music-Mgmt, Black eyed peas, Bob Marley, the bearded ladies, the resonators, laura marling, the xx, oasis, the venga boys! (just some of them)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitch hiked across half of Lithuania and the length of Latvia right to Riga on the coast.
Cycled from my house to Paris!
Cycled from Vienna to Budapest.
Seen great Pyramids and valley of the Kings
Hitch hiked to London in an evening.
Cycled from the length of the Uk on my own.
Run a marathon.

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