CURRENT MISSION

Learn more languages, read more, write more.

ABOUT ME

Semi-nomadic for work. I'm a writer and occasional photographer.

PHILOSOPHY

"There is only one thing I know, and that is that I know nothing." (Socrates)
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No borders, we are all earthlings. At the same time this makes me less excited at the prospect of visiting other countries--you travel enough, and you realise there are more similarities between people (and places) than there are differences. Which is ultimately a good realisation. I travel because I have the itchy feet gene and can't stay still for too long, I'm not a collector of countries and cultures distinguished by arbitrary borders.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I sometimes host and get hosted.

Interests

Languages, reading, writing, art, photography, yoga, diving and snorkelling, veganism and vegetarianism, adventure sports, theme parks, walking and climbing.

• fish
• arts
• writing
• photography
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• walking
• boating
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• scuba diving
• sports
• rock climbing
• anthropology
• teaching
• languages
• parks
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Bob Dylan, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, the Beatles, Bob Marley, the Smiths, Leonard Cohen, Emiliana Torrini, Asha Bhosle, A.R.Rahman, Neutral Milk Hotel, Aimee Mann, Céu, Franz Ferdinand, the Sparks, and Radiohead and so on...

Broken circle breakdown, The Florida Project, La La Land, Amacord, Spirited away, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Donnie Darko, Amelie, Howl's moving castle, les intouchables, Paris je t'aime, Monty Python and the holy grail, muppets treasure island, 500 days of summer, black swan, trainspotting, city of god, Lady vengeance ...

Cormac McCarthy, Bulgakov, Gustave Flaubert, Chekhov, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Carmen Maria Machado, Shirley Jackson, Veronique Olmi, Baudelaire, Jhumpa Lahiri, Leila Slimani etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Cycling through the limestone mountains and rice fields near the Li river in China.

-Riding a boat through the amazon rainforest at night, hearing frogs, crickets, and not being able to distinguish between the stars and the many fireflies which also reflected off the river.

-Hiking through the great national parks in the western States.

-Canyoning in Minakami, Japan

-Travelling through the Vietnamese countryside by motorbike

-Bringing in the new year in New Orleans

-Living for some time in a small village in rural Kazakhstan

-Me and my husband, alone in the centre of Bukhara on the Silk Road, Uzbekistan

-Yoga in Rishikesh, India

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: vegetarian cooking, languages, (besides having studied languages at university I also am a TEFL teacher and so can help people with their English :) ), yoga (doing an ashtanga yoga teaching qualification in the near future), I can also show you the cool parts of wherever I am living. I am also a bit of a marine life enthusiast. I can identify and talk about a variety of sea mammals and large fish: dolphins, whales and sharks.

Learn: Again, languages (I want to learn Korean, Farsi and Russian)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Portugal, Senegal, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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