I like meeting people from all paths of life and like sharing ideas and experiences. I like to get inspired. I like to go out and explore, feeling self-conscious or not.

I think I'd describe myself as the kind of person that devours books, loves wandering around in the cold then go for black coffee, wears fingerless gloves, prefers rats over dogs, carries a black ballpoint pen at all times, is not religious but appreciates churches, plays her favourite records over and over and over again, and cannot decide whether she prefers her hair long or short.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I belong to an odd species called 'humans' and as a result need social interaction to stay healthy.

Interests

Literature, music, museums, art, history, old stuff, film and docu, libraries, drawing, painting and writing.

Nature, rambling, cities.

• arts
• literature
• music
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Patti Smith, Skip James, Son House, Bessie Smith, Dave Van Ronk, Asaf Avidan, the Smiths, Lotte Lenya, Marian Anderson, Maria Callas, ... Folk music, Traditional songs with the word 'grave' in them, ...

Classic literature, Poetry, Jean Genet, Patti Smith, Melville, Homer, Paul Bowles, Hemingway, M Train, Moby Dick, Our Lady of the Flowers, Billy Bud Sailor, the Illiad, the Runaway, Journey to the East, the Sheltering Sky, The Epic of Gilgamesh, And the Ass saw the Angel, Cannery Row ...

Documentaries, social dramas, historical dramas, world cinema, French films, westerns; Breakfast on Pluto, Midnight Cowboy, Turtles Can Fly, The House of Sand, Agora, Dream of Life, Persepolis, One More Time With Feeling, 20,000 Days on Earth, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, The Proposition, Once Upon a Time in the West, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Found a mummified cat with my Cumbrian host when drunk.

Teach, Learn, Share

Honesty, hunger for knowledge.

Writing your name with your toes.

What I Can Share with Hosts

An odd Flemish accent and a 'wee dram of whisky'.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, England