An Englishman living in De Pinte, so help me god. I read books, don't eat dead animals, do things, travel a wee bit, cook a fair amount and that kind of thing.

PHILOSOPHY

"Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards".

Kierkegaard, Søren

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet some people or something

Interests

I like to travel, attend concerts, read broadly, watch combat sports, watch rugby, make pitiful attempts to learn other languages, cook, walk, laugh etc.

• concerts
• cooking
• traveling
• sports
• combat sports
• rugby
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Mulatu Astake, Oxbow, Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt, Deerhunter, William Elliott Whitmore, Unsane, Harvey Milk, Moho, Alice Coltrane, Flying Lotus, and many more.

Books: Imre Kertesz, Lee Rourke, Gwendoline Riley, Alan Warner, Milan Kundera, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Stayed with a nomadic family in Mongolia, did some kung fu at the Shaolin temple.

What I Can Share with Hosts

food, shelter etc

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mongolia, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, United Kingdom