CURRENT MISSION

To have a happy and varied life, filled with fun.

ABOUT ME

Alison spent a lifetime teaching primary children and has two adult children. Bob had a career in administration.

PHILOSOPHY

Smile, for things could be worse.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

travel the world, meet interesting people and spread cultural understanding. The best way to visit another place is to stay with a local resident.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We enjoy hosting and surfing, and have met some wonderful people who we now class as friends. We have hosted couch-surfers from Germany, Madrid, Dublin, California, Canada, Poland, France ...and been hosted in France,Madrid, Fez, Paris, Vancouver Island and Seattle.

Centres d'intérêt

Badminton club, swim in community pool, cycling club, kayaking, scuba diving instructor, experiencing different cultures and meeting interesting people. Also red wine and tapas of course. Alison is also a great cook. We both enjoy ‘trying’ to learn Salsa and Bachata.

• wine
• yoga
• zumba
• walking
• gardening
• traveling
• painting
• cycling
• surfing
• scuba diving
• swimming
• languages
• sightseeing
• ukulele
• balet

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Alison enjoys reading and is a boff on gardening and classical music and paints. Favourite film - "4 Weddings and a Funeral". Bob is a "Trekkie", favourite films are "Wizard of Oz", "Oliver" and "Titanic". He likes 60s and 70s pop and learning French and Spanish.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

We worked as volunteers with baboons on an animal sanctuary near Cape Town, staying in a colonial house. Later we stayed on a Herero farmstead with no water or electricity following a car accident.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

Languages - we are learning French and Spanish and trained in Madrid to teach English. We do involve ourselves with intercambio sessions in our local area, exchanging English and Spanish.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Experiences and stories.

Pays que j'ai visités

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Luxembourg, Morocco, Namibia, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, United States, Viet Nam

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

England, Spain

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