Hi. I'm pretty ancient but love getting away from the West every so often, exploring different cultures and landscapes, working out how to get a bus, planning next move, and hopefully sharing a tea, a beer, a meal with someone who speaks a bit of English that I've met at a cafe or asked for directions. Luckily my very well-travelled kids sometimes come with me - they don't mind walking for hours to find some place that someone said we should go to, but more often I am on my own, grabbing a couple of weeks away from my job as a designer for a book publisher. I play tennis and squash and football, and cycle round my home town of London, and I write techno-dancey-indie music tracks in my spare time. Recently I've been to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and India on my own, and Vietnam with my kids. (By the way, the photos I have of my home are a bit out of date since they were taken when I was renting my space out...I'll update them when I get round to it). Happy to provide a bedroom if it fits in with my schedule - all the more if you can fill me in on certain places like China, Pakistan, Central Asia, Eastern Europe