CURRENT MISSION

Meet new people and maybe do a bit of eco-brainwashing too! ;)

ABOUT ME

Pretty easy going guy, vegetarian, love riding my road bike and going to the beach. Looking to meet new people whilst living back in Australia :) as well make more friends from around the world for my next travelling adventure overseas..

Looking at my travel history and profile you might be a bit confused about my life! Dont worry, im pretty confused about it myself sometimes ;) haha Basically my story is that I have moved between Stockholm and Brisbane over the past 5 years. It started off as a exchange year in Stockholm in 2009. I fell in love with the city and Sweden in general, but had to come back to Brisbane to finish my degree in 2010. I then started a PhD in Brisbane in 2011 and joined it together with another PhD at KTH in Stockholm. So I moved back to Stockholm in 2011, and have moved back and forth between the two awesome cities ever since. Ive also been lucky enough to travel around the world visiting many different places in between my work.

I just arrived back in Brisbane (Nov 2013) and am hoping to meet new people, practise my swedish if I get a chance, and show people around my hometown :) I will go back to Sweden for their summer June/July, back here to Brisbane again, around August, and then back to Sweden in 2015 to finish both PhD's!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have hosted a few times in Stockholm and surfed in Europe as well! Have my place available in Stockholm, and another in Brisbane, Australia (this is where I am now!)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All pretty new!

Interests

Sustainability, Politics, Photography, Psychology, Travelling

• photography
• vegetarian
• walking
• politics
• traveling
• cycling
• scuba diving
• emergency services
• history
• psychology
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

My summer booklist -
'Prosperity without Growth' (for the second time);
'The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture';
'Seeking Peace:
Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World'; and,
'The Ascent of Humanity'

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hard to list but I would have to say:

Walking the Inca Trail in Peru
Diving with Great White Sharks in South Africa
Spending two weeks on islands off the coast of Fiji with my closest mates
Orca watching in both Canada (Vancouver/Victoria) and Iceland
Driving to the top of a Volcano in Hawaii
Visiting my sponsor child in Mozambique
Being chased by a Camel in Egypt
Scuba diving for 5 days in the Surin and Similan Islands, off the western coast of Thailand
Questioned by police in Dubai over headache pills
and of course, getting to live in the beautiful city of Stockholm!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malawi, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Sweden