CURRENT MISSION
Well I've been given several top secret missions from her Majesty's Secret Service over the last few years but I'm afraid I can't elaborate...

ABOUT ME
Asian Studies (Japanese and Mandarin) graduate living in Madrid, Spain. Self professed "guiri españolizado" and final bastion for the archaic Victorian stereotype (ironically suffering from post-colonial guilt and a borderline obsessive interest in Asia Pacific). My "mission" (excluding those pertaining to Her Majesty's Intelligence Service) is to reach fluency in at least 7 languages, and swan about the world like a premenopausal Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love.

PHILOSOPHY
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time."-- Leonard Bernstein

"Everything will be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, then it's not the end." -- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

"People are in constant motion, never stationary. No one knows what will happen next."-- Haruki Murakami, Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Mostly Asia Pacific. I spent one summer working my way across Japan and a second year travelling overland from Hong Kong to Bangkok, sleeping everywhere from beaches to fishing boats to the floor of an art gallery... that and Couch Surfing ;)

Hosting:
I've hosted several surfers from Europe, the Americas and Asia. Anyone is welcome, time, availability, and MI5 missions pending.

Interests

Foreign cinema, long walks on the beach... you know the usual stuff...

• arts
• movies
• traveling
• fishing
• surfing
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything vaguely postcolonial or Haruki Murakami-- Theres nothing like a guilty european or depressed trainspotter!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In my previous life I was a Condor, I saw and did many wonderful things I cannot begin to describe...

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach English... though if you can read this then you probably don't need my help...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Spain, United Kingdom