CURRENT MISSION

We are ordinary people seeking to carve out extraordinary lives in mundane London. We want to offer a space for community, merrymaking and relaxation. Welcome!

ABOUT ME

We were a collective, now we're a more conventional family. We've got these little surfers who seem to have taken up permanent residence.

But we still have a desire to open our door, to offer hospitality, to meet new and past people, to share space with those who pass through. We're not professionals but it touches something in us and that's why we do it.

PHILOSOPHY

'Welcome to the irresistible revolution, a new and ancient way of life that is so attractive, who would settle for anything else? The revolution begins inside each of us, and through little acts of love, it will take over the world.' (Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We host, we pop along to the events we can make, we have the occasional meal here, and we benefit from the generosity of strangers on the road.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

From a ready apple pie on the table in Paris from Mme Dussable to Christmas in a New York Thai restaurant with a wonderful opera singer to ice-hockey and Wawa's in D-town.

Drawbridge down. :-)

Interests

Activism, primary school teaching, football, reflecting, backgammon, reading, seeing the sights, laughing, playing guitar, dancing, learning English, learning Swahili, anagrammatic, dancing salsa, playing squash, thinking big, dreaming local, making a difference...the list goes on.

• dancing
• reading
• guitar
• opera
• soccer
• hockey
• racquetball
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Finding Nemo to American History X to The Corporation to Patch Adams to Fight Club to Crash to The Constant Gardener.

Delirious? to Chris Brown to John Denver to Ludovico Einaudi to...an eclectic mix of gangsta hip-hop and children's songs.

Roald Dahl to Walter Wink to William Neal to Martin Luther King to Philip Yancey to Naomi Klein to Enid Blyton to Dick King Smith.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jaguara: shook the hand of a celebrity gardener.
Ji-O: a double-decker bus.
Neer-O: moved across the world for love.
Tygra: Pumyra.
Pumyra: completed med-school.

Teach, Learn, Share

Jaguara: for the feline feminine
Ji-O: student extraordinaire
Neer-O: chef a la carte
Tygra: youthworker
Pumyra: health superhero
Bri-O: in the making

And all those other little pieces of information and knowledge you never knew you had, yeah?

We'd love to learn all there is to be offered: to know more about the rest of the world. We believe in sharing experiences and telling stories as a source of richness and growth. :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahrain, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

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