CURRENT MISSION

To run at life full speed ahead, smashing through boredom, mundanity and grumpiness, leaving them quivering in my wake

ABOUT ME

I love to write, dance, eat good food, drink very good beer and meet great people. Reluctant eccentric with a penchant for sarcasm. I have all the fun!!!!!!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My boyfriend Oli and I couchsurfed our way around Europe in 2012, then hosted a whole bunch of people back at ours. Since then we've been surfing with people intermittently (using Oli's account because I only just recovered my log-in in 2017), and letting a whole load of people crash our couch in Berlin (although not officially via the Couchsurfing website). Right now I'm not able to host - Oli and I are temporarily living back at home while planning our next adventure, but I hope to be able to open up the couch in my theoretical future apartment sometime soon...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far I've stayed with a fantastic couple in Pisa, who cooked us a delicious meal and told us the best places to go. Also a primary school teacher in Switzerland who invited us to his schools' production, a guy in Zurich who gave us pizza and watched Garden State with us, a Danish free spirit train conductor/children's author, Polish punks, smart lads in Prague, and so many more...

Interests

I love to move around - I've just moved back from Berlin after living there for three years, will be travelling the USA for a couple of months, and hope to live in Amsterdam and Italy, among other places. I'm a writer and journalist by trade - fresh ideas, quirky newsbites and strange people with an original (or comical) story to tell make me sit up and take notice. I've also worked for a contemporary circus and an urban hula hoop festival - I'm a little bit allergic to sterile offices. I love to discover new places, customs and ways of life - and new food. God, I love food. Shouty or bleepy music, an obsession with thrifting or making my own clothes, bad art, reading any book I can get my hands on then discussing it afterwards and making friends with everyone are among my other interests.

• cats
• arts
• books
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• dining
• beer
• cocktails
• vegetarian
• running
• drinking
• gardening
• thrifting
• clothing
• reading
• music
• surfing
• teaching
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Finch, Circa Survive, Cutting Pink With Knives, Girls, Postal Service, DRUGS, Bright Eyes, Pulled Apart By Horses, Rolo Tomassi, The Streets, M83, Supersystem, Genghis Tron, MSTRKRFT etc (this is a list from 2012 and things haven't changed much in five years, except that I like a little more EDM.)

Books: Sophies World, Never Let Me Go, Brave New World, Flowers For Algernon, Down and out in Paris and London, The Equality Illusion, the Beauty Myth, anything written by Charlie Brooker ever. Yes, even his shopping lists.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- swam in the river Aare in Bern
- watched the Luminara fireworks in Pisa
- risked life and limb and rode the Mighty Mouse rollercoaster in Porthcawl

Teach, Learn, Share

If I'm a little drunk I will show you some ballet and pretend to sing the Welsh national anthem correctly.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom