Dave (26) is originally from Wellington, NZ and I'm originally from South Africa (Jenny - 25). My family immigrated to NZ when I was a child so I'm very much a "kiwi" now. Dave and I met at a friends house while we were both studying and we've now been married for nearly 3 years! We both love travelling and really wanted to do it long term for a while before we look at buying a house so we decided to do a working holiday in Europe this year, working on and off in the UK and travelling as far and wide as we can!

Our exciting 1 year adventure started on April 25 so in many ways our journey has just begun but we have already visited some pretty cool places. You can check out our travel blog at www.forpureadventure.com

We're really friendly and interested to learn about new cultures and ways of life (and maybe pick up some new language skills along the way!). We're by no means chefs but we love food and learning to cook new and exciting dishes! NZ doesn't have a lot of traditional food but what we know we'd love to share with you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We really believe that local knowledge is essential to any great overseas trip and we also want to try new things we haven't done before so couch surfing is the perfect fit for us as it's something we've always wanted to try. We really want to see what it's like and also host some more visitors once we have our own place again back in NZ.

We've also been doing some volunteering and house sitting. You can see our profiles here:

Volunteering profile: http://www.workaway.info/workawayerprofile.html?w=Jenny_and_Dave_NZ

House sitting profile: https://www.trustedhousesitters.com/house-and-pet-sitters/22642-J%2BD_NZ/

Interests

We love Theme parks, Traveling, great food and Blogging (www.forpureadventure.com) and Jenny loves DIY

• pets
• diy
• dining
• cooking
• traveling
• blogging
• surfing
• skydiving
• volunteering
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
The Prestige, V for Vendetta, Back to the Future, Hot Fuzz, Anchorman, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Angels and Demons, Pay It Forward, Exit through the Gift Shop, Interstellar, Avengers (pretty much anything Marvel), Love Actually

TV Series:
The Blacklist, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Gotham, Survivor, Broadchurch, The Missing, Sherlock, Top of the Lake, Mr. Selfridge, Scrubs, New Girl

Music:
Train, Mutemath, Copeland, Radiohead, Coldplay, Fat Freddys Drop, The Whitestripes, Jack Johnson, Jose Gonzales, Beirut, John Mayer, Flight of the Conchords, Grizzly Bear, HalfNoise, The Jury & the Saints, Hugh Laurie, Johnny Cash, Justin Timberlake, Kimbra, Lorde, Passion Pit, Paramore, Phoenix, 30 Seconds to Mars, U2

Books:
Thrillers! Lee Child, Dan Brown, Gillian Flynn etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We went skydiving in South Africa! It was amazing! You can view Dave's youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuPiIJ0m8Sc

Teach, Learn, Share

We know some cool card tricks and games which we're always eager to share. We also know lots of crazy facts about theme parks since we're massive theme park fans (and have a big list of parks we're going to be visiting throughout Europe).

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom