CURRENT MISSION

Have a job I love doing, but without too many hours

ABOUT ME

I am curious, love travelling and finding out about the great weirdness behind life and society's machinations. I'm happiest outdoors in the hills, forest woods, oceans, rivers. I've been told I'm a good listner and observer I also like to yarn, rant, blabber with friends or any independent thinkers.

PHILOSOPHY

I have one but until I live by it I shouldn't preach it, am getting there

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have had 2 great SC surfing experiences but still not hosted due to places and people I live with unfortunately. Soon though.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Used to do loads of hitch hiking and CSing (or haystack surfing in the barn) becomes a natural part of that, people invite you to their home. I think it's one of the greatest ways to "integrate" when in an unfamiliar place, people are dying to show you their locality and want you to leave having had a great experience. Nowadays it only works in rural areas, depending on the country, and I understand why people are reluctant to stop. Whenever I have a car (& sometimes by bicycle) I give lifts to hitchers, but they are in danger of extinction, in western Europe anyway.

Interests

playing guitar & singing, growing cooking & eating good food, cycling, mountain hiking, surfing.

• singing
• cooking
• traveling
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• beer brewing
• degrowth
• horticulture

Music, Movies, and Books

all sorts of music Fela Kuti, Fred Wesley at the moment. Beatles, Beethoven, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Dead Can Dance
Christopher Hitchens, Garcia Marquez, Saramago, JG Farrel, Hemingway, all spring to mind.
Movies, Kurosawa, Cohen brothers, Werner Herzog, Dogme, Fellini, Orson Welles, Frank Capra

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Busking around Europe for 6 months, deadly craic.

Hampi India, Varanasi India, Laos.

Scubadiving in Gulf of Thailand.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to fix a puncture on a bicycle, to grow potatoes,
how to poach an egg.
How to make an Irish cofee, a celeriac gratin and other.
To speak English and Spanish...
To light a fire in the wild.....

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burundi, Denmark, Hungary, India, Kenya, Laos, Morocco, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Ireland, Mexico, Scotland, Spain