CURRENT MISSION

To actively live my life every day, never to just exist.

ABOUT ME

I have a lust for life that I want to share with as many people as possible. I love new experiences, meeting new people and going to new places.

Some people would describe me as pretty mad at times, but they would always follow it up with "in a good way!". I like to do interesting things and meet interesting people, which is why I'm on here. For a while before joining this site, I had a calling card that I placed in interesting locations, which asked strangers to get in touch with me if they wanted to meet me in random cities across Europe.

I should perhaps warn you: I am freegan, so if I feed you it will either be vegan food or leftovers/bin food. If you're not okay with that you'll need to feed yourself, sorry!

I'm currently without a home and sort of winging it as a nomad, so I am unable to host anyone at the moment, but I'd love to meet up with anyone who is in the same area as me!

PHILOSOPHY

I am alive, and I am incredibly lucky to be alive. I will only be alive once, and I don't know how long for. Therefore, I want to get as much out of my life as I can. To spend time on things I don't care about or that make me unhappy would be the most foolish thing I can think of.

Por que estou no Couchsurfing?

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted a fair few people in the past, and I've just moved to Sheffield where I'm getting set up to be able to host more people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted a few times, met up with travellers both in the UK and abroad, and couchsurfed around Italy, Germany, Belgium and Ireland. The variety of people I've met doing this has been really inspiring and interesting! =)

Interesses

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

I like reading, hiking/walking, yoga, listening to music and going to gigs, photography, rock climbing, cooking, writing, doing interesting things, roller derby (awesome sport on skates, look it up), travelling (of course, of course!), and just spending time with people I like.

• writing
• poetry
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• baking
• vegan
• yoga
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• scuba diving
• sports
• rock climbing
• languages
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Músicas, Filmes e Livros

I'm not great with movies, but I my favourites are Amelie, Trainspotting, the History Boys, Goodbye Lenin and Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

Music and books, however, are two things I love.
Favourite bands/artists/composers (currently) are Belle & Sebastian, R.E.M., Loituma, Katzenjammer, Beethoven, the Mountain Goats and Amanda Palmer. I like being introduced to new music!

I love books. (If I stay at your house, don't be surprised when I start inspecting your bookshelves!) I must admit I'm something of a fussy reader, since there are so many really good books out there waiting to be read that I don't want to waste my time with junk. Favourite authors are Dostoyevsky, Salman Rushdie, and George Orwell. Favourite books are Birdsong, the Magus, the First Circle, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the Little Prince, On the Road, and many many more. (I also love Oscar Wilde, but more for his life than his writing - his writing is brilliant, but he was better.)

Uma Coisa Incrível que Eu Fiz

Just one thing? But my life is so full of amazing things, deciding which was the best is difficult!

Okay, I've thought of a little list of things. But I fear there are a few things I've missed off here.

Sleeping in the Sahara, under what looked like every star in the universe, unable to see anything but stars and sand.

Hitchhiking in Northern Italy, getting dropped off on a road that gets about one car every two hours, and deciding that instead of being annoyed at being dropped off in such a bad spot, I'd take it as an opportunity to go hiking in the snowy mountains.

Seeing the Taj Mahal was pretty amazing. A lot of famous landmarks don't live up to their reputation and tend to be a bit of a let down when you see them (take the Eiffel Tower, for instance), but the Taj Mahal was so much BETTER than anything I had expected. The pictures of it don't do justice to the way the inlays sparkle against the marble in sunlight, or the perfect mixture of really grand majesty combined with the fragile delicacy of the details.

One day, a few months ago, at a point when I was pretty unhappy for various reasons, a friend of mine decided to try to cheer me up. His method for doing this was to arrive in York at 6:30pm, meet me and leave York again by 7pm on a train to Ilkley, just near the Yorkshire Dales. From there we walked 13 miles north until we reached some proper mountainy things. This took us until about 2:30am, and included stopping at Bolton Abbey at midnight, which was spectacular in itself. The final bit of the mountain was brilliant, because we weren't sure which bit was the top and so were clambering all over the huge boulders in pitch blackness until we eventually found the proper summit. Before putting our tent up we stood and looked at the lights coming from the villages in the valley, and realised that because it was so dark we could make believe they were stars, and that they were the only other things in the universe. The next morning when I woke up and looked out of the tent I was absolutely amazed to see what the top of the mountain looked like in daylight - it was covered in beautiful purple heather and the view was astonishing! I was also quite surprised to see how big the boulders that I had been jumping around on in the darkness actually were - I don't think I'd've considered myself capable of climbing them if I'd been able to see their size. We sat and drank some tea on the top of the mountain before heading back down into civilisation.

Oh God, there are so many more things I want to include in this section, but I fear I have written too much already!

Ensine, Aprenda, Compartilhe

I like baking. I have lots of good recipes that I can share with people. I can give you hitchhiking tips. I can take you dumpster diving. I can teach you some yoga, and possibly take you roller skating. I know lots of bits of a couple of languages, and little bits of lots of languages. I can hold entire conversations using only quotes from comedies, songs and poems, if that's what you're into.

I like photography, so whenever I meet anyone who is better at it than me (which isn't difficult, I just play about with my camera and sometimes capture things that look quite good and sometimes don't) I'm always eager to learn anything they have to teach me about it. I want to become fluent in French, so if you're willing to put up with my bad French and teach me some of that, it would make me very happy.

Países que Visitei

Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Países em que Morei

Germany, United Kingdom