CURRENT MISSION

To experience as much as possible with as many as possible.....

ABOUT ME

I am an open, friendly person who always has conversation at hand, I think! Never stuck for a word hahahahah. I love travelling, conversation, food (both eating and preparing it!), wine (in sociable quantities), ecological farming (especially plucking geese and I can explain this!), reading and all things that open the mind.....and a good party!!!

I have been lucky enough to have travelled widely both for work and pleasure and have lived outside my home country for the last 18 years..... I have a home in Valencia, Spain but am currently taking time out to see more world and go to China....

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live and when your going through hell, keep walking.....

I live for new interesting experiences....I think we can make a difference on a personal individual level.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Any which way I can!!!!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am just starting and have had good experiences so far!!!!

Interests

Conversation.
Film (watching....)
Good books (I love interesting reading groups!)and great writers, especially the eccentric English ones that wondered around the world.....
Food and wine tasting.....
Jazz clubs.
Travelling and doing HelpX holidays....
Writing....
A well made drink!
Food with interesting people and friends

• writing
• books
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• wine tasting
• walking
• partying
• drinking
• clubbing
• reading
• traveling
• jazz
• karaoke
• boxing
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Spanish cinema, Italian neorealism, French cinema that really does your head in...envolving films....Thought provoking documentaries, sweeping films....Haneke (The Pianist), Eyes Wide Shut, Binoche and Huppert, The edgy Nicole Kidman films, Visconti (Senso, Death in Venice and el Gatopardo), All about my Mother, Bringing Up Baby, Peter Greenaway, Howards End, The Remains of the Day, Fellini, Ealing comedies, I ADORE "BRIEF ENCOUNTER"! Blade Runner, Interview by Steve Buscemi......

Have just read No Logo and the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein back to back. Great stuff but have switched to Irvine Welsh for light relief!!!!

Love the classics but always ready to be surprised by soemthing new and quirky!. Good biographies...

Music : Massive attack, Mozart, Baroque, la Traviata, Elgar, Fados, La Copla, Cecilia Bartoli, Bangra, The English Patient soundtrack, The Hours (anything by Philip Glass), Amy Winehouse (Will she survive?), Priscilla Queen of the Desert soundtrack, Mark Almond Yes I am eclectic!

Recent great reads that I want to share (quite a lot as I've just had a holiday!):

Picadilly Jim - PG Wodehouse
Terrorist - John Updike
Monarchy - David Starkey
Fire in Blood - Nemirovsky
Lee Miller - A life
Brighton Rock - Graham greene
Hippopotomus / Making History - Stephen Fry
20 fragments of Ravenous Youth - Xialou Guo
The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
The end of the Affair - Graham Greene
Le grand Meaulnes - Alain Fournier
Tremblements at stupeurs - Amelie Nothomb
Moi et toi - Yann Queffelec
La Mirada de la munyeca hinchable - Javier Torneo
The Chinese - Jasper Becker
Eats , shoots and leaves - Lynne Truss
Speak to the hand - Lynne Truss

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

DANCE WITH THE FUTURE QUEEN OF ENGLAND http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/YOOK3Av5atjjqZLV

Sunset on Formentera....Zooming round the island with friends on mopeds.....It will stay with me forever.

A month spent on Lake Orta in Italy in a retreat as a working guest.

A deserted beach in Brazil with one other person.

The Botanical gardens in Valencia on a sunny Sunday morning.

A month on an ecological farm in Galicia and eating the goose that attacked me (I can explain!).

Sushi and saki fuelled-karaoke in Tokyo (fortunately there is no audio eveidence!).

Bookbrowsing in Paris and finding real treasures...

Spending a weekend with a "Z" list celebrity (Rebecca Loos- claim to fame is that she had affair with David Beckham). Eating sushi is better.

Being taken to a Ukranian restaurant in Moscow and wanting to"follow the cultural flow" drank neat Vodka throughout the whole meal - this was how it was done! How did I get back to the hotel?

Being blindly and passionately in lurrrrvvvvv!

So many things.....OOOps I've just realised it said only one!

Teach, Learn, Share

I think I have tried to step outside the box all my life but believe in the importance of humility...there is always someone to learn from or something new to live, hence my teaching.....

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Spain

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