CURRENT MISSION

I enjoy travelling quite a lot, and I'm currently on a trip around latin america. My favourite countries visited so far have been Albania and Brazil mostly due to the friendliness of the people but there are nice people everywhere of course.

I'm a calm, down-to-earth person. I'm not an energetic party animal but I do enjoy a drink and conversation. I respect all people I meet and am always interested to meet more. I recently got into editing Wikipedia, and adding pictures to articles that don't have any yet, so if there are wiki people about please drop me a message.

I like to travel around and experience different ways of life but usually need to recharge afterwards and spend a few days doing nothing.

PHILOSOPHY

There's good in everyone

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I first used CS as a traveller in 2009. In 2017 i started using it a lot again when I was in Brazil and Saudi Arabia, then there was a lull, and now I'm trying to use it a bit again in the UK.

Interests

I think travelling is more than just seeing the major landmarks, it's more about spontaneous meetings with locals, all the better when you get to form friendships

I like nature, comedy, traditional musics, interesting instruments, dive bars, alcohol, walking, hidden places in cities. I'd like to learn how to the play the cuíca - the Brazilian percussion drum that sounds like a monkey

• dining
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Here's a bunch of bands I like: Human League, Astro (from Chile), John Wizards, Keith Mlevhu, Metronomy, Chico Buarque, Beth Carvalho, Clara Nunes, Juan Wauters, Eddy Grant, Steeleye Span, The Cure, Starfckr, Deerhoof, Harry Nilsson, Father John Misty, Fionn Regan, Alceu Valença, 10cc, Michael Andrews, Don McLean, Dick Annegarn, Labi Siffre, Gaiteiros De Lisboa, Steely Dan, Heintje, Gabriel Yared, Mac deMarco, Paul Simon, Prefab Sprout, Timur Selçuk, Kate Bush, Jeffrey Lewis, Mercury Rev, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Seu Jorge, Jenny Lou Carson, MGMT, Cathy Davey, Cat Stevens, The National, The Rumble Strips, Joe Dassin and a lot of Tchaikovsky.

Here's some directors I like: Éric Rohmer, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Miranda July, Bertrand Blier, Robert Altman, Nicolas Roeg, Thomas Riedelsheimer, Steven Spielberg, Constantine Giannaris, Ruben Östlund, Roman Polanski, Víctor Erice, Aki Kaurismäki, Anthony Minghella, Ingmar Bergman, Lukas Moodysson, Robert Zemeckis, Werner Herzog, Dagur Kári, Kelly Reichardt, Tom Tykwer and Todd Solondz.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I hitchhiked from Struga, Macedonia to Tirana, Albania on my 27th birthday. A trucker gave me a lift across the border and then a guy in a van picked me up and gave me some local fruit to eat while we drove through places i'd never been before on a beautiful hot day.

I spent 24 days going around the whole of Albania anti-clockwise in Sep 2018 and managed to write a fairly detailed diary of everything that happened in a little book I bought in Bulgaria some time after. I'm very proud of it. I've since written diaries of trips to Estonia, Poland, Northern Ireland, Spain and was writing a new Albanian one from a trip I did in June 2022, but never got to finish it.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can speak English with you if you'd like to improve :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Spain