CURRENT MISSION

To enjoy life... through travelling, meeting people...

ABOUT ME

I'm a welcoming, friendly fellow who enjoys travelling, helping others (I'm a volunteer at the CS Lewis Nature Reserve) and who tries to live life to the max (in moderation!). I enjoy a good drink, particularly good red wines, good food (albeit vegetarian) and like spending time in my garden. I'm not religious. I am more of an introvert than an extrovert.

PHILOSOPHY

I don't really have a personal philosophy - people change throughout their lives - and their philosophies change.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I was introduced to the CS Project through a friend who lived in my pad for a couple of months.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am impressed.

Interests

Astronomy, football, drinking, rock climbing, rock / pop music, vegetarian cuisine, reading, gardening, neuroscience, travelling.

visited 24 states (10.6%)Create your own visited map of The World

• dining
• red wine
• vegetarian
• drinking
• pub crawls
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• rock climbing
• soccer
• astronomy
• neuroscience
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Shawshank, Watership Down, most Jimmy Stewart & Sigourney films,

Most music, esp. rock. E.g. Metallica, Eric Clapton, Chopin & Tchaikovsky.

Books, I'm a fan of sci-fi especially and, well, any decent fiction. E.g. Robert Heinlein, Asimov & Arthur C. Clarke. Other fiction: Steinbeck, Orwell, E.B White, Nabokov, Anthony Burgess. Non-fiction includes neuroscience & philosophy, history, ecology, politics, and evolutionary biology - Dawkins is my God.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching the sunrise over the Himalayas at Tiger Hill, Darjeeling, India.

Teach, Learn, Share

Well, since I'm not actually from Oxford but have made it my home (I own a house here) I feel that I'm a good person to share knowledge with. Oh, and I've drank at most of Oxford pubs.