ABOUT ME

I enjoy making people laugh.
I'm easy-going.

Live in Edinburgh, study at art school (photography). Enjoy live music (jazz mostly), art exhibitions, particular art photography.

PHILOSOPHY

Each to his own. Make the most of what you have, and even try learning to live without what you do have, since you may realise you don't actually need it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

barely hosted or surfed but, had some great experiences with:
- hitchhiking with people from CS which resulted in a surf
- sharing cabins on ferries with a CSer amongst others.
- been to a few meetings and met lots of CSers.

Interests

photography, trying to play the trumpet, music, literature, traveling, people, unpretentious galleries, cooking, cycling, walking/cycling with no direction home, camping, hiking, ecology, proper films,

• literature
• photography
• cooking
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• live music
• trumpet
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• art history
• ecology
• hitchhiking
• film photography
• analogue photography
• fine art photography

Music, Movies, and Books

music: anything as long as it's good. really into jazz these days, rocksteady, ska, experimental, electronic, folk, punk, new wave... anything ear-splitting, mind-numbing or brain-melting is usually good.

Favourite films include:
Taxi Driver
Manhattan
Chinatown
Withnail and I

Books/Authors:
Loving Sci Fi these days, especially the Culture series and Ken MacLeod, Haruki Murakami before 1Q84, Kerouac (will always love Dharma Bums), 'Midnight's Children'- Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Vikram Seth, Burroughs, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Dylan Thomas, Tove Jansson, Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy... Some 20th century poetry and ooh, James Joyce, Raymond Carver.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cycling 1000km around Tasmania with a tent, waking up by the sea, meeting an old man who wore a suit every day with amazing stories and knowledge about herbs.

Teach, Learn, Share

2 + 2 = whatever you want it to be.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Very English sense of humour.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom