My question to myself for nearly 10 years now has been 'how can i have a positive influence on the world'. This has led me to be involved in co-operative housing projects, garden design and landscaping, suburban farming and education, transition projects and permaculture. Now i am blessed to be living in nature working on my own permaculture project in the mountains of central Portugal!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I used to be on couch surfing and 8 years ago i met many generous wonderful people through this website! Now i find i have a place and i have space and i can host people! I learned lots on my journeys through countries and culture and find that when consulted i can share what fruits i have gathered to benefit people! I also realise i have lots to learn too and teachers can come in the most unexpected of guises. So in short i am on couch surfing to learn and to teach and to share experiences with our global community!

Interests

Climbing, biking, hiking..... general adventuring. People, nature, design, language, music, challenges....

• culture
• design
• education
• cooking
• gardening
• music
• surfing
• teaching
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

So Many, Recently, The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen.
Older fav, was Shantaram.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Worked in Antarctica!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach permaculture and integrated design and cooking! I would love to learn CAD, any languages.

Countries I’ve Visited

Chile, Guatemala

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Portugal