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Overview

  • 27 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Hindi, Italian, Spanish, Yue (Cantonese)
  • 77, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Writing English dictionaries, textbooks, and partner in S...
  • BA
  • From Totnes
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Enjoyment, and never stopping learning

ABOUT ME

As a silver surfer, or golden oldie, I welcome all ages! I live in the centre of town, so shops and restaurants and pubs are very close. I don't expect to cook for my surfers, but they are welcome to use my kitchen to make their own meals. I am a partner in the wonderful Totnes School of English, and our website has lots of local links about Totnes and its status as Transition Town, See www.totenglish.co.uk for more info!

PHILOSOPHY

Life!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meeting and hosting and surfing!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I met 4 delightful people in the Caribbean, just for coffee, and have hosted several people who are interested in Totnes as a Transition Town. I had three completely different and interesting hosts in Germany, and I look forward to some further surfing sometime soon!

Interests

Favourite mode of travel: train, or car in Europe
Least favourite: plane, hiking
Interested in most things for 15 minutes, science, psychology and languages for 30!
Astrologically aware.
Irreligious and sceptical about most things.

  • cooking
  • coffee
  • pub crawls
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • languages
  • psychology
  • science

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

So many: dawns and sunsets all over the world - e g overlooking Annapurna, on the west coast of France, the east coast of Mauritius, Luzern; most beautiful city, Rio; most stunning cheap journey - Star Ferry, Hong Kong; most unvisited jewel: Samarkand; most overrated city: Barcelona
You can take issue with any or all of these!

Teach, Learn, Share

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Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Cook Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Montserrat, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Réunion, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, France, India, United Kingdom

Old School Badges

  • 4 Vouches
  • Pioneer Badge

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