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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 53, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Travel Agent, actor and theatre director.
  • Elementary, high school and college.
  • From Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Be creative. Love unconditionally. Accept people. Travel. Savour beauty.

ABOUT ME

Find these hard to fill out ... I'm a guy with a heart who loves to laugh and have fun and serious talks. Likes to spend time alone and with friends (old and new). Love travelling. Am respectful and kind. Am gay. Very eclectic tastes from the finer things in life and classical music to dancing the night away at a gay nightclub somewhere! I am a developing nudist and enjoy the chance to join other naked men who appreciate this freedom.

PHILOSOPHY

To get all that's good out of life and to help others along the way, especially those who have not received as much as I have.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING:
Have hosted and enjoyed meeting new people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE:
Looking forward to it

Interests

Acting, dancing, laughing, helping others laugh, theatre, reading books and magazines and people's minds, watching movies and watching people, thinking about God, writing stuff, making stuff out of other stuff, surfing YouTube, doing crosswords and puzzles. And of course....travel, travel, travel!

  • writing
  • books
  • acting
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • classical music
  • lgbt+

Music, Movies, and Books

LOVE movies! Sometimes watch 3 a week! A few favourites: Amelie, Madame Sousatska, A Single Man, Signs, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, All Above Eve, Baghdad Cafe, The Hours and just about any movie that has Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman or Meryl Streep. Not into musicals so much! (Yes...for a gay man I know that is close to the ultimate blasphemy!)

LOVE Theatre and Contemporary Dance.

Music I like: Moby, Annie Lennox, Amy Winehouse, Icehouse ('80s Aussie band), Sade, Coldplay, U2, Alanis Morrisette, Adele, dance music (esp. house, deep house and techno house) and classical music especially Bach.

Artists: Monet, Renoir, Caravaggio, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Van Gogh and perhaps my favourite Jack Vettriano.

Books: Dean Koontz is the best! Thrillers. LGBT+ literature. Biographies. Murder Mysteries.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meeting holocaust survivors from Dachau and Auschwitz Concentration Camps.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My respect and love of meeting new friends. A hug.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Denmark, Dominica, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland

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