CURRENT MISSION

Spreading positive energy and sharing beautiful experiences

ABOUT ME

We are plant loving, animal admiring, nature freaks that met at a music festival in Canterbury - England two and a half years ago and are now happily married and seeking wacky adventures. We love to sing, dance, smoke, drink, laugh and enjoy our short time on this beautiful planet. We love festivals, camping under the stars, live music, art and crafts, philosophy, sustainable living, married life, humanism, surfing, swaying and rambling. We're easy going and non-judgemental people who love to feel free and drive off into the sunset in our van.
JOSH: im newly married to my wonderful wife sophie and love every minute i get to spend with her..hmm im abit of a seed currently blowing from place to place not sure where to take root, yeah im a plant pervert,not in a sexual way might add but am totally addicted to getting upclose and personal with them, i spend my life surrounded by them they make me stop and take stock..i love to share smiles with strangers and kick the sea and watch the droplets fall,and snorkel chasing little fishes, spot shooting stars with friends. i love a beer for all different times of the year i love a chong,random improv sings getting tribal and stomping in the same spot for hours and hours carving up the ground with my bare feet and then exploring whats up and over the hill.
love to climb trees and make indian wobobobob sounds and whistle to birds and try to chat with the animals.
i love the feel i get from sliding open our van door and seeing a tottly different landscape,i love tea and coffee strong coffee and weird homemade alcohol especially cider.

SOPHIE: I studied visual arts and choreography at university in Devon, became an au pair in London, managed a deli in Salisbury, lived in a caravan by the sea in Kent, sang in a reggae band in Brighton, and am now wanting to take flight. I've had itchy feet for years (gyspy heritage) and am finally ready to hit the road with my partner in crime Josh. I love seahorses, snails and chameleons because they have spirals in them... I like looking at the stars in the sky because they're amazing wherever you are on the planet... I think singing is the best medicine, closely followed by laughter, cheese and spontaneous drumming... I want to see and feel as much as possible because life is too short to be halfhearted.. And I think it's time for a rainbow revolution. Also when I grow up I want to be a marine biologist, a singer, a leader of world music workshops in schools, a forensic psychologist, a nomad, a mother, and not too much of a grown up.

PHILOSOPHY

SOPHIE: 23. Also, "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" - Alice (In Wonderland).
JOSH: its difficult to sum it up into a sentance but to me i reckon life is about sharing happpiness with others..

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

JOSH: guess it depends in what im participating in?!but..
socially:ah i like to be silly,and get peoiple on to mind expansive chat things that boggle or bend the brain and bring about a childish sense of wonder, especially to those who never get to think on that plane.laughing lost in laughter is great when no-one knows whats going on..i like that..but yeah i join socially
Economically:yeah i work and vote pay my taxes and get annoyed at what they get spent on by the maniacs in control, still i find moneys best not to get too wrapped up in..you never have enough and it always goes when you think your getting closehaha
i like to participate in anything ill whip abit of what i can in when the time allows?!!
having re read what ive just written i figured the question probably reffered to how im involved in CS so far im yet to surf or host!
SOPHIE: What he said.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This is a first through this site but we've stayed on many a couch?!

Interests

SOPHIE: Nature - live music - art - spirituality - philosophy - camping - surfing - roadtripping - stomping - snails - scrumpy - colourful scarves - stones - yurts - halloumi - singing - dancing - drawing strange looking people - my family - handing out smiles - inflicting seahorse hugs on people - obscure trivia and factoids - gerald durrell - boris johnsons hair - jazz culture - shamanic medicines - psychedelia - fantasy - fractals and natural symmetry

• animals
• birds
• arts
• culture
• singing
• festivals
• dancing
• cheese
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• crafts
• trivia
• drawing
• music
• live music
• jazz
• guitar
• world music
• camping
• hunting
• surfing
• snorkeling
• swimming
• biology
• medicine
• psychology
• visual arts
• au-pair
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

What Dreams May Come, Fern Gully, Requiem For a Dream, Waking Life, The Jungle Book...
Bob Marley, John Jacob Niles, Radiohead, The Beatles, Cream, The Smiths, Bobby McFerrin, Bjork, Anthony and The Johnsons, Joanna Newsom, The Small Faces, Nina Simone, Xavier Rudd, The Quebe Sisters, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bill Withers, Ella Fitzgerald, ...
Anthing by Rudyard Kipling, Gerald Durrell, Paulo Coelho, Dorothy Parker, Bill Bryson, Eckhart Tolle, Margaret Atwood, Anthony Burgess..
JOSH:not a big reader readings hard on the eyes so i like picture books filled with plants!yeah i read alotta planty books and out of the few novels ive read siddartha was one which stood out and struck some chords.
we share alot of the same music goodness me to name the artists hidden orchestra, django reidhardt, horace andy, king tubby, scientist, mairiee sioux, fela kuti ,hendrix, lightnin hopkins, odetta,mr dibbs, crosby stills and nash..i dunno its pretty all over the shop i love music i think
its one of humanities greatest assets. as for films i
like many of the films sophie mentioned my memories terrible with films im not massivley into television i do however love documentaries.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

SOPHIE: Attempting to navigate my way around deepest darkest Dartmoor in the winter... Swimming across icy rivers carrying a guitar and my rucksack over my head, nearly drifting off downstream, leaping off tors, savage nettle stings, leeches, insect bites... Exhilerating and marvellous.
JOSH:ive met one of britains oldest oak trees her majesty oak if ever your near canterbury you should go see it i couldhelp!,ionce saw a double rainbow form create half its hoop and then perfectly close back in on itself, spectacular. i married my wonderful wife this year feels pretty amazing!

Teach, Learn, Share

Porcupines float.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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