CURRENT MISSION

To Travel the globe with my little English accent :D

ABOUT ME

Im a friendly, enthusiastic and adventurous man, my interests are in travelling, sports, cultural studies, nutrition, socialising. I am currently travelling a vast amount of europe and want to enjoy couch surfing, but also wish to see as much as i can see while in each country.

I'm non-selective about my guests, I won't discriminate because your male, female, German, Chinese or French, I think there's always something interesting to talk about and we should get along very well. Im a very outgoing person and often spend time with my CSers showing them exciting places in Leeds or neighbouring regions and following it off with a good meal where we can all work together to make the most interesting of dishes...i refuse to serve "ready-meals"...haha :D

I've travelled to more countries than labelled, but i got so bored of filling in the country names, descriptions, city lists, arrival and departure dates that i gave up, but ill tell you all about them when we meet :D

PHILOSOPHY

Treat a stranger like a friend and they'll likely become one

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch - Benjamin Franklin

Be genuine, never pretentious because any friend you earn will like the real you and not just a facade.

I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it - Voltaire

Everyone loves a bit of cheese but add too much and your farts will smell haha (metaphor for cheesy clichés)

Those who make you believe absurdity; can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire

Sometime when I see "art" it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I both surf and host, sharing a great experience in whichever i do. I love meeting fellow travellers, and i work in the CouchSurfing community as much as possible. I've hosted loads of great CS parties with an excess of 60 people in many, helped surfers moving to my city get a job/place to live etc. I am an ambassador of CS so have contributed through my travel guides, feedback, posts and experience. My life is effectively interwoven with CS now through me going to the weekly meetings every week, having hundreds of CS friends and spending most evenings with a new CS guest to host. I love it and the people are great, far more open minded and they tend to make an effort to get to know you so you can make the most valauable friends from it :D

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Ive encountered a range of friendly of all colours and creeds among my travels though not exclusively through Couchsurfing. I have had many excellent experiences through Couchsurfing and hope to have many more!

Interests

Traveling, Socialising, Cycling, Walking, Running, Pool, Playing Football, Cooking, Basketball, Rock climbing, Tennis, Martial Arts, Writing, Philosophy, Different religions, Reading, Debating, Enviromentalism, Organic Free Range/Fair Trade Products, Extreeme Sports, Sciences, Nutrition, Sports And Exercise, Politics Watching Comedy/Horror TV/Films, The list goes on...

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Air Traffic
Between the Trees
Aqualung
Frank Turner
Freelance Whales
Martin Craft
Midlake
Mumford & Sons
Nightmare of You
The Dears
The Perishers
The Wishing Well
Three Days Grace
Erland and the Carnival
Doves
The Beautiful South
The Grascals
The Morning Benders
The Heavy
Augustana
Chumbawumba
Matt & Kim
Airborne Toxic Event
Beans on Toast
Fake Problems
Boy Kill Boy
One Night Only
Owl City
Starsailor
The Baseballs
The Ghosts
30 Seconds To Mars,
They Might Be Giants,
Muse,
Mobile,
The Shore,
Young Love,
Scouting For Girls,
Shiny Toy Guns,
Kasabian,
Plain White T's,
The Red Hot Chillies,
Three Days Grace,
The Stills,
The Killers,
Biffy Clyro

Films:
Equilibrium
A.I
American Psycho
Click
Dark City
Donnie Darko
Drop Dead Fred
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Garden State
GATTACA
Number 23
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pi
Powder
Primer
Requiem For A Dream
Thank You For Smoking
The Butterfly Effect
The Nines
V For Vendetta
21 Grams
Rescue Dawn
The Matrix (1-3)
Training Day
Awake
Control Factor
Memento
Red Dragon
American History X
Snatch
Regin Of Fire
In Bruges
30 Days Of Night
Ali G IndaHouse
Borat
Hoodwinked
Howl's Moving Castle
Little Nicky
Saw I-IV
The Wedding Singer
Underworld + Evolution
No Country For Old Men
Office Space
Lonely Hearts
Lord Of War
Magicians

Books (Authors):
Aldous Huxley
Bernard Cornwell
John Drake
William Shakespear (Especially the comedies)
George Orwell
David Weber
Robert H Frank
Richard Dawkins
Richard Mabey
Raymond Khoury
Jerry A Coyne
Frank McCourt
Steven Pinker
Ray Mears
Bear Grylls
Anna Politikovskaya
Peter Cave
Robert Louis Stevenson
Douglas Adams
Michael Brooks
Trevor Homer
Christopher Brookmyre
Tim Harford
Alex Boese
Eduardo Galeano
Ben Goldacre
Nick Leeson
Mark Lynas
Francis Collins
Gene Wolfe
Douglas R Hofstadter
Brian Cox
Thomas Harris
Arthur C Clarke
Leo Tolstoy
Ian Stewart
Bram Stoker
James Borg
Karen Miller
Trudi Canavan

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Survived through endless months of deprivation of the one thing most holy and sacred to an Englishman...TEA! This is a feat of such sheer magnitude that the Tea Daily newspaper is publishing a headliner article titled "To tea, or not to tea", and the sheer volumes of tea and scones I've been sent by my good friend the queen among many other top-hat wearing English gentlemen is marvelous. So tonight as i tuck into my 'Fish and chips', accompanied by a good brew of a righteous English blend, I'll look back at my suffering, and know that England, glorious England shall be strong because of me! Haha
- Yes i love playing with stereotypes!!!! :D

I've done some wacky things in my time too, some intentional, some unbelievable and some disasters that are too funny when you look back at them, here's a few:
-Fallen out of a moving train in Denmark
-Been stuck on a 36 hour train in China with nothing but a banana to survive
-Base jumped off a derelict oil rig in Russia
-Got lost in the tunnels of Prague in tunnels so small you have to lay on a skateboard and roll through for hours
-Freedived with sharks
-Swam with with dolphins
-Hosted solidly for 3 months without less than 3 CSers a night during peak season
-Competed in Europe and Asia in martial arts tournaments and won my rounds
-Travelled to every continent (Minus Antarctica...soon Antarctica soon)
-Lived in the woods (completely self sufficient)
-Been kidnapped (Escaped by kicking out the tail-lights until they stopped and stringing out, running accross the road as they opened the boot)
-Lived among Tibetan monks for a few weeks
-Saved a mans life from an overdose (complete stranger)
-Cooked for 60 people
-Was a vegetarian for 2 years
-Talked my way out of gunpoint in Brazil
-Written and sold my books
-Acted in a Malaysian movie (6 minute roll)
-Housed homeless people for a reintegration program working in a similar concept to Couchsurfing
-Survived southern Indian curry...ouch hehe
-Travelled Europe by bicycle for 3 months on £500
-Slept in an Airport for 10 straight nights
-Slid along my chest down a bowling alley lane
-Pinched a full bowling set bit by bit on drunken nights...sorry!
-Been paid as an extra for mowing my lawn (it was accidental because it was my lawn and the crew thought it was intentional)
-Been abducted by aliens...nah just kidding! hehe :P
-Fallen through ice on a lake
-Driven into a river in Canada because my GPS was set to winter routes and the ice would have been frozen over
-Worked as a ranger
-Rode the worlds highest train journey in the Himalayas

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm an Aikido Instructor so can teach you self defence
Rock Climbing
Parkour
Writing
Cooking
History
Geography
Science
Nutrition
Sports Fitness
Teaching Martial Arts
Sharing Travel Experiences
General Knowledge
Badass Board Games
Etc.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A wide range of travel stories to wow and amuse as well as some great cooking and stimulating conversation. Plus I can also teach you to kick ass! :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, China, France, United Kingdom

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