CURRENT MISSION

To explore the underground ruins of Istanbul.

ABOUT ME

I fall asleep on public transport. I have broken my hand ten times playing hockey. After I began wearing gloves I only broke my hand twice. I have now stopped playing hockey. My brother once told me the apple in McDonald's apple pies is actually potato. I believed him. I woke up once to find a fan burning in my room. I once woke up in a bus depot on a locked bus. I used to play the piano quite well. I have broken my hands ten times playing hockey. I had an evil twin surgically removed from my chest. My brother once told me that wasabi was mashed peas. I believed him. I have run naked across my front lawn carrying a burning fan while a stream of pensioners poured out of the church next door. I have lived in Ireland. I currently live in Turkey. Australia is home. I played lawn bowls once for a laugh. I found out I quite liked it. I have never broken my hand playing lawn bowls.

PHILOSOPHY

Treat yourself right, treat other people right.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I kept hearing about the concept and figured that I had a double bed sitting in a spare room getting bored, so why not offer it up ...

Interests

Playing backgammon or scrabble by the Bosphorous (anywhere will do, but might as well do it in style); playing my piano late at night with the lights off; and chocolate risotto. I'm very interested in chocolate risotto.

• chocolate
• running
• piano
• hockey

Music, Movies, and Books

Fight Club (book and movie), Pan's Labyrinth, Proof, Sexy Beast, Chopper, Lantana, The Castle, Amelie, The Matrix (only the first of the three), Blade Runner, Withnail and I

Haruki Murukami, Ian Rankin, 'I'm Not Scared' by Niccolo Ammaniti, the Murray Whelan books by Shane Maloney, Chuck Palahniuk

Modest Mouse, Nick Cave (the music, not so much the books), You Am I, Tim Rogers, Tom Waits, Faith No More, Mike Patton, Catpower, Belle and Sebastian, John Martyn, Louis Armstrong, Disaster Plan, Dallas Crane, Augie March, The Cure, The Shins, Supergrass, The Eels, Tex Perkins, The Flaming Lips, Bjork, Mum, Iron and Wine, oh and so much more

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I accompanied an East Timorese man back to his home village to meet his mother for the first time since he'd left the country 25 years previously.

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