CURRENT MISSION

To enjoy my hometowns year of glory as the 2013 City of Culture

ABOUT ME

I am a passionate traveller and tour-guide all over Ireland but especially in Northern Ireland. Sometimes I am not home, but my hostel-staff will provide an equally warm welcome if I am away tour-guiding 'on the road'!

I have worked for over a decade on my own and also with Paddywagon Tours and US Travel guru Rick Steves. I own a lovely backpacker hostel in the middle of my home-town, historic Derry. its called Derry International Hostel, but known locally as 'Paddys Palace' or 'the Derry Palace'! I love the principles of couchsurfing and to support the couch-surfing community I always leave a few couches (usually a nice clean bed actually) each night available free-of-charge to couch-surfers.
Happy travels

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I own a few beautiful properties and river-front apartments which I rent out to students and travellers on a short-term basis, all are in the centre of Derry (aka londonderry).

I occasionally have some empty beds, and empty couches, in a lovely backpacker hostel that I also own in the middle of my home-town, historic Derry. its called Derry International Hostel, but known locally as 'Paddys Palace' or 'the Derry Palace'! I love the principles of couchsurfing and to support the couch-surfing community I always leave a few couches (usually a nice clean bed actually) each night available free-of-charge to couch-surfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am relatively new (nearly a year) to the couch-surfing website though I have known about since last year when 6 really cool people came to stay at my hostel because they had no couches available in Derry that night, I had no idea wat they were on about but when they explained I thought it was a brilliant concept, and they were such enthusiastic travellers and brought a great friendly vibe to the the place, we had a lot of fun hosting them

Interests

Travelling the world, speaking and improving my french, walking my dogs and studying history

• dogs
• culture
• walking
• tv
• traveling
• backpacking
• surfing
• history
• tourism
• tours

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meeting the President of Ireland, appearing on US TV and reaching 20,000 twitter followers!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom