CURRENT MISSION

Road-trippin' the US of A: Vancouver Island, BC ---- New Orleans, Louisiana for Mardi Gras 2017!

ABOUT ME

I am a freelance journalist and producer, currently living in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Formerly a resident of London and Brighton (UK) and Chengdu and Beijing (China).

PHILOSOPHY

笑一笑，十年少 - laughing makes us 10 years younger

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted and stayed with dozens of people from around the world for nearly a decade - I LOVE COUCHSURFING!

Interests

Food glorious food (and particularly Sichuan cuisine); cycling down random alleyways; walking down more random alleyways; long conversations that go on into the night; hitch-hiking; secondhand clothes; art (especially photography and printmaking); peace and conflict; tea; radio; feminism; music; cozyness; counter-culture; Chinese language and Chinese people; literature; radical Jewish history; climate change...but perhaps that's enough for now!

• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• photography
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• walking
• clothing
• blogging
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• history
• journalism
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Waking Life, Before Sunset, The Educators, Amadeus, Six Degrees of Separation, No Direction Home, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Man on Wire, It's a Wonderful Life, Strictly Ballroom, The Lives of Others, Roman Holiday, I'm Not There, Perfect Strangers, Amelie, To Kill a Mockingbird, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, State of Play, The Reader, (500) Days of Summer, Shortbus, In My Father's Den...
Music: Joanna Newson, Bob Dylan, Mum, Paul Curreri, Ali Farka Toure, The Books, Kate and Anna McGarrigle...
Books: I like to read about China - Wild Swans by Jung Chang; River Town and Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler; Red China Blues by Jan Wong; plus I also enjoy literary fiction - Ian McEwan; Zadie Smith; Margaret Atwood; Helen Simpson et al.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

World Naked Bike Ride, 2006 and 2007:)

Teach, Learn, Share

I love teaching people how to cook the food I love, and being taught recipes in return. Errr what else...oh yeah, and the basics of spoken Mandarin!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Laos, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, France, United Kingdom

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