CURRENT MISSION

Teach the Dutch that there is more to Australia than Bondi Rescue

ABOUT ME

It began as relatively normal life - school, high school, (highly successful male escort) , university, office job.

Then one fateful day I met some lovely but drunk old Scottish ladies in a rural Australian town, and everything changed...

...adventure adventure adventure... aaand now I've arrived in the Netherlands.

PHILOSOPHY

Define yourself by what you are for, not what you are against

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In addition to surfing, I worked on a small project where I took short (like one or two minutes) interviews with my CouchSurfing hosts and other travellers I met.

You can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcURhHp7iJg

If you don't like being on film, or just don't like your likeness cut into an overly sentimental montage, never fear. I sold my camera to fund the Philippines trip, so your faces are safe for the time being*.

*Safe from cameras. I can't vouch for anything else that may or may not happen to your face whilst travelling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I cut a fair swathe of Europe through CS for about four months in 2009. I attempted to host in a small town in remote regional Philippines in 2010 with mixed (read: No) success. Amazingly, nobody wanted to join me to stay in the sweet little town next to the sweet ginormous power plant. Except my Dutch girlfriend, who is technically a Couchsurfer. (Buuut if we're getting technical, I'm pretty sure you get no CS karma points for hosting your own girlfriend)

Interests

Music

Coffee
Cult comedy
Animals
Fitness
Art / Architecture / Design
Psychology / Social science
Global development (Especially Gapminder. Thoroughly recommended if you haven't seen it)
Writing
Racquet Sports (esp. Squash)

• animals
• arts
• writing
• architecture
• design
• dining
• coffee
• fitness
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• sports
• racquetball
• swimming
• psychology
• science
• social science
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Could go on forever. Some of my favourite bands are:

Angus & Julia Stone
The Avalanches
Arcade Fire
Beirut
Bloc Party
Broken Social Scene
Cat Power
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Crookers
Death From Above 1979
Devotchka
Elvis Perkins
Explosions in the Sky
The Fiery Furnaces
Interpol
Jeff Buckley
Laura
Little Ice Age
M83
Patrick Watson
Phoenix
Portishead
Radiohead
Sparkadia
The Do
The Maccabees
The Twelves
The Walkmen.....(okay that's overdoing it maybe)

Movies: As with music, I can usually find something I enjoy in any genre. My all time favourite is Memento.

Books: Some I have enjoyed:

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathon Safran Foer
High Society - Ben Elton
A Certain Chemistry - Mil Millington
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
HTWFAIP - Dale Carnegie
One Day - David Nicholls

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swimming with turtles. I like tortles.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have a formidable music collection (in my humble opinion) and haven't met someone yet that I couldn't introduce something new to. Always waiting to be surprised though..

Always interested in furthering my knowledge on any of the topics in my Interests.

Like many humans, I am a food and coffee fan (especially the latter). I am always grateful for your suggestions.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Netherlands, Philippines

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