ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm currently travelling through Europe for 2009. I was living and working in the Netherlands for the first half of the year, and now I'm travelling though Europe, the Middle East, and the United States for the rest of the year. I'm hoping to meet all sorts of people on my travels and hears lots of stories. I love whiling away hours in cafes, cooking for my friends while I have music playing loudly, reading, and walking in new cities.

Interests

Shoes; cupcakes; reading reading reading; buying far too many books; yoga; eating locally and living semi-sustainably; international relations; tea; good friends; travelling; cooking; baking and giving away baked things; poetry; good wine; afternoons in bed listening to rain on my skylight; whale watching; politics; walking everywhere; dogs; loving way too many different types of music; the West Wing; people with good manners; learning new words; the weekend newspapers; horseracing; tulips; the list goes on, and on....

• dogs
• books
• poetry
• cooking
• wine
• baking
• yoga
• walking
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• international relations
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - almost anything. At the moment I'm listening to CDs my friends made me to travel with.

Books - The History of Love (Nicole Krauss); Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Everything is Illuminated (both by Jonathan Safran Foer); Breakfast at Tiffanys (Truman Capote); Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessel); White Teeth (Zadie Smith); Cloudstreet (Tim Winton); Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding); A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens); The Hours (Michael Cunningham); Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen); the Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger); One Hundred Years of Solitude; Chronicle of a Death Foretold (both by Gabriel Garcia Marquez); The Book Thief (Markus Zusak); Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie); Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy); The Inheritance of Loss (Keran Desai); Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford); the list goes on... and on...

Teach, Learn, Share

Horseracing, international law, contract law, cooking!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Laos, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Netherlands