CURRENT MISSION

To circumnavigate the globe one country // one beer at a time whilst my young body and overzealous personality will allow me.

ABOUT ME

I now live in Leeds in the UK, I went to the prestigious and extremely vibrant University of Leeds where I studied Engineering and got a degree in boozing. I spent my boyhood in the countryside of the Midlands (Ashby de-la Zouch // Market Bosworth) and like all young country bumpkins I enjoy the country pursuits such as horse riding, hunting and shooting all of which have escaped me in the recent years.

I have a very overzealous personality who likes to live at a break neck pace of life (except when some much earned sofa time has been accrued).

I’m a big fan of all sports and will watch and play most until the cows come home, well except baseball (I just can’t see the fascination with it). My biggest love of sports has to be skiing, golf, squash / tennis, football….

But like all, one of my favourite past times is time spent socialising in her Majesties public houses embracing that great British past time drinking to a state of adequate inebriation which then leads on to all types of debortury.

Guess that is me in a ‘nutshell’.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is for the living.

Your a long time dead.

Abstaining from drinking & smoking won’t make you live longer it will just seem longer.

Your only young once.

Live every day like it might be your last, and one day it will.

Regret nothing, simply learn from past experiences good or bad.

Why do some thing tomorrow when you can do it today.

Judge people on what they do not on what they say they will do.

You only have one life and there is no dress rehearsal.

You can archive anything you want, the only constraint is time.

A war is not won over night it’s won one battle at a time.

“Tottenham Hotspurs will in my life time get Champions League football.”

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I first heard of the CS project through a friend of mine. This friend and a host of my house mates then went and travelled all across and around the USA using this amazing social networking tool to meet like minded people and well to make that travelling budget last for as long as possible.

I my self was planning to attend this mammoth trip however it was just not possible due to work constraints. DAM WORK.

I think the idea that like minded travellers can meet each other and pass on local knowledge and be offered a bed / sofa / floor to crash on at the same time is in the true spirit of the travelling mentality and is an admirable character trait which shows truly the good will that some humans poses.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My personal couch surfing experiences are limited at this time, my first experience of CS was in Hungary, Budapest where an American Berkley university student studying there was so kind as to house us and take us out for 3 nights of quality socialising. Dxxxxx Pxxxxx thank you again! Xx

Interests

Sports of all kinds (Except baseball, no more explanation required)

That is a bit of an ambiguous description above so hear is an unambiguous list of some more interests.

Skiing
Rock Climbing
Squash
Tennis
Football
Rugby
Golf
Paint Balling
F1
World Rally
Moto GP
Gadgety stuff
Working on cars / bikes (greasy stuff)
Sky diving
Cliff Jumping
Scubber diving
Fishing
Swimming
Sailing
Flying
Boozing
History
Geography

• beer
• drinking
• flying
• traveling
• cars
• painting
• fishing
• hunting
• surfing
• scuba diving
• sailing
• skiing
• cliff jumping
• sports
• baseball
• rock climbing
• soccer
• tennis
• rugby
• racquetball
• swimming
• golf
• engineering
• geography
• history
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

I have been through too many fazes to list all my musical interests so don’t judge me on my few choices below. I am a fan of all music unless it sounds like noise pollution.

Guns n Roses
Kings of Leon
Killers
Metallic
Arctic Monkeys
Blur
The Beatles
Elton John
Van the man
Beck
Lenny Kravitz
Morcheeba
Air
MGMT
Jason Mraz
Jack Johnson
311
80’s & 90’s classics

D&B
Andy C
Zinc
Grooveryder

These are but too name a few and are in no particular order, just what I think is in my CD pouch at the moment.

Movies

Where to begin with this, I love film and could happily sit in a cinema all weekend taking breaks only to eat at a nearby restaurant.

Superbad
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
American Pie
Kill Bill
The Thomas Crown Affair
Top Gun
Naked Gun
Terminator
The Bourne’s
The Die Hard’s
The Departed
The Big Lebowski
Sin City
Casino
Lock Stock and two smoking barrels
Baseket Ball
Ferris Buellers day out
Batman
Spider Man
Clover Feild
Austin Powers
Anchorman
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Scar Face
TRANSFORMERS!!!
American Beauty

TV Shows

FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDS!!! (This is the best show EVER)
Gavin and Stacy
The American Office
Entourage
Heros
Lost
Arrested Development
Curb your enthusiasm
Saxon Dale
Teachers
Blackadder
Monty Pythons
The Corner
90210
Top Gear
Scrubs
David Atenbra’s documentaries

I think from reading this you can deduce getting Sky TV was the right choice, I suppose i am a massive trash TV junkie. However, I am not addicted.

A few books a have read recently are,

The Sherlock Holmes Volumes I and II – Conan Doyle
20,000 Leagues Beneath The Sea - Jules Vern
Carbon - Carbon Composites – E. Savage
The Game – Neil Strauss

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once played table football (foosball) against some professional hustlers in a bar in Budapest (Messi would have been put to shame with the ball control witnessed). Was worth the 100 Forrent.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cyprus, United Kingdom, United States