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Overview

  • 12 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning Russian, Spanish
  • 69, Other
  • Member since 2009
  • We are both taking early retirement to travel the world
  • We both worked in Healthcare
  • From I am a Londoner, my wife is Malaysian Chinese from Penang
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Trying to learn Spanish and Russian. We are going on a big trip from March 2010 across Europe and Asia

ABOUT ME

We are keen travelers and have been to many countries. We previously swapped our home with many people in order to visit their countries. We mostly usedthis method to visit the USA and Canada.

This is our FLICKR page for our travel photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smeetravel

and our BLOG:
http://smeetravel.blogspot.com/

PHILOSOPHY

Open minded, easy going.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We were offering our sofa-bed until Feb 2010 and hope to find couches from then on our travels

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far hosting surfers and house swaps. We hosted many people from across Europe.

Interests

We enjoy travel, meeting people from other countries, film, listening to live music of all kinds, learning languages, reading, sports.

  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • blogging
  • music
  • live music
  • sports
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite films - Groundhog Day, Breaking Away, Funny Bones, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Big Red One, Kingdom & the Beauty

Favourite authors - George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Chong Yau.

Favourite music - Beatles, Calexico, Lambchop, Deerhoof, Elgar.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Amazing? - Las Cataratas Iguazu

Teach, Learn, Share

We especially want to learn Spanish, Russian

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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