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Overview

  • 75 references 63 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 61, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Civil servant and part time tour guide within Scotland
  • Degree level
  • From Edinburgh, Scotland
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About Me

WHEN POSSIBLE, I'M HAPPY TO MEET UP FOR A DRINK/WALK/CONVERSATION BUT I CANNOT HOST ANYONE IN JULY OR AUGUST 2015.

CURRENT MISSION

Be Happy and Stay Happy

ABOUT ME

One common memory from my travels is of how welcoming and friendly ordinary people are all over the World. I would like to offer that same welcome and friendship to people who come to visit my beautiful home city of Edinburgh.

PHILOSOPHY

Treat others as you would want others to treat you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted a few people, see their comments below. Enjoying the hosting experience so far. Highly recommend it to others :)
I have hosted people from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the US of A.

Interests

Sport (especially football and in particular Celtic FC) travelling and meeting with people, current affairs, reading, film, music, the outdoors.

  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • outdoor activities
  • sports
  • soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Keen film goer. Some of my favourite movies are Apocalypse Now; A River Runs Through It; Blazing Sadddles; Braveheart; Crocodile Dundee; Cinema Paradiso; Dances with Wolves, Il Postino; Trainspotting and The Field.
Enjoy various kinds of music, not a slave to any one musical genre.
Keen reader - Joseph Conrad; Hermann Hesse; Thomas Hardy; George Orwell; Ben Elton; Jeremy Clarkson; Knut Hamsun; Bjorn Lomborg; Johan Norberg; Scottish History; humour - I enjoy comedians like Frankie Boyle, Billy Connolly, Doug Stanhope and Jim Jeffries. Enjoy all good writing. Subscribe to The Economist, National Geographic and the British satirical magazine, Private Eye.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Every day is amazing. Visiting Doubtful Sound in NZ was pretty cool.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Laos, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

Old School Badges

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