CURRENT MISSION
Stephanie wrote this blog of her time with me
www.budgetbucketlist.com/isle-of-wight
sums up what staying here is like !!

Well - the Anaurus sank at her moorings on the 10th April - I escaped with just the clothes I was wearing, she sank in ten minutes.
I live now with friends in Newport, who very kindly let Dong stay - a racing yacht crew member of a Clipper 68 round the world entry.
Any requests to stay will be discussed with Jane and Peter - their family commitments of grandchildren staying have priority of course
- but I am more than willing to meet up and show you the 🏝️

I live on the ISLE of WIGHT - in the town of NEWPORT

"To walk the path less travelled - blazing a trail, not walking in a rut; a rut is a ditch which gets deeper with time and your horizon is the top of this narrow ditch - the view from the mountain is the next mountain - being happy to be "different", being hosted on a boat, you can't get much different than that !!!!"
If you see someone without a smile - give them one of your's
You're never too old to have a happy childhood !
Being happy, learning guitar and writing illustrated letters to friends

ABOUT ME

Non smoking, no alcohol, vegan, guitar playing, blues harmonica playing music loving - all genres. For four years until 2014 I worked for a boutique camping company, providing tipis (wigwams) for music festivals (which is why I love all genres from folk to beat box (The Global Gathering is AMAZING festival as is Glastonbury) - building them and taking down after festivals, then drove the truck to the next festival - was great being backstage and working.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live. We've 2 ears, 2 eyes, 2 nostrils and a mouth to take stuff in - but only one to talk with. So I don't say much.
Philosophy - "Only dead fish swim with the stream"
"Comparison is the thief of joy" Don't compare yourself with anyone else - we'roe all good.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well - let the references speak for themselves, surfers' and friends' (I especially like Lucy's and Celine's (friend), who think of me as an uncle or even grandpa !!) - I love hosting and stops me getting the "empty nest" feeling. Had first couch surfer - Marianne from New York stayed on board for Isle of Wight Festival (Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty played there) and since Marianne have had over three hundred lovely people stay - from yachting students, babies, students to retired couples travelling the world. Several have stay twice or more times- become part of the family and always keep in touch.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Only hosted - great people without exception

兴趣

Learning languages - speak English, French, Dutch plus some German, Greek and Italian - all picked up from seafaring.Playing guitar and teach surfers to play card game Cribbage, backgammon and chess. I love preparing and cooking plant based whole food, and displaying the meals on the plate artistically

• poetry
• performing arts
• music festivals
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• yachting
• chess
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• blues
• camping
• swimming
• languages

音乐、电影和书籍

I read Bach's "Jonathon Livingstone, Seagull" and Thomas Pynchon "Gravity's Rainbow" - over and over. I like the poetry of W.B. Yeats (The Song of Wandering Angus). Movies - French/Russian film "The Concert", "Easy Rider" , "Alice's Restaurant"

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Performed my poetry at the Isle of Wight literary festival - one hour spot as headline act on the Saturday with Couchsurfer Dominika working the sound from her laptop.

教，学，和分享

Non meat eating is so much tastier and looks good on the plate

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I can cook from basics and offer conversation on all sorts of subjects - and of course swap stories about "couchsurfers I have known!!" and so many differing ways of washing dishes !!

我游览过的国家

Angola, Aruba, Australia, Canada, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Liberia, Norway, Russian Federation, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, United States

我居住过的国家

Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom

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