Some of the best experiences of my life have been meeting local people whilst travelling, and learning more about their country and their city than I would've done otherwise. So, after not being able to do much travelling (let alone couchsurfing) during the pandemic, I'm very keen to get back to that! Even when I have the money to stay in hostels every night I always like to meet the locals. See their city through their eyes!

I'm a big reader. Used to read a lot of fiction, (Leonora Carrington, Kathy Acker, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Ken Liu. Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Angela Carter, Mikhail Bulgakov, Salman Rushdie, Kurt Vonnegut, Jeanette Winterson, Sylvia Plath, Haruki Murakami), but am now reading a bit more non-fiction. Love award-winning indie films and absolute trash classics (The Room, Sharknado).