I take photos and I teach piano. A native Londoner who moved to Brighton in 2010, I love living by the sea and meeting new people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've surfed with and hosted hundreds of weird and wonderful people since around 2005 :)

Interests

shooting portraits of people. walking my dogs at the beach. riding motorbikes in the sunshine. poker. dancing badly to live music. trying to ski. galloping across the countryside on a horse. meandering conversations over a vodka-soda. practisin sirsasana b to bakasana. playin ragtime and classical piano. reading.

• dogs
• festivals
• dancing
• reading
• poker
• music
• piano
• hunting
• skiing
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Fight Club, Trainspotting, Requiem For A Dream, Brokeback Mountain, The Machinist, The Road, Pi.
Music: rock, drum'n'bass, classical piano, tuareg, Taylor Swift :)
Books: Mary Gaitskill, Brett Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

USA roadtrip, east coast to west and back again. 27 states, 6 weeks, 10,000 miles. Blagged VIP passes for a music festival, skydived over Nevada Desert, spent $1000 in 12hrs in Vegas, ate alligator, met Everclear, took harmonica lessons, raced a 1000cc Ninja down Route 66, camped in the middle of nowhere, fought off spider bites, surfed both coasts, shot ak47s in the desert, rode sand dunes in NM, cycled over the Golden Gate Bridge, chased ghosts in N'Awlins, danced 'round Graceland, partied with rednecks, rafted down the Rio Grande....

Where I've traveled: England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Albania, Portugal, Czech, Romania, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Monaco, Croatia, Hungary, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Egypt, Morocco, Peru, Mexico, Canada, 29 US states including Hawaii, Indonesia, Thailand, India.

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