CURRENT MISSION

To meet lots of new and interesting folk at home and abroad

ABOUT ME

30 year-old Anglo-Mexican brighton-dweller.

Usually work in the field of political campaigning but temporarily opted out of the workforce to travel the world for 18 months;

UK - Poland - Russia - Mongolia - China - Hong Kong - Thailand, Vietnam - Laos - Cambodia - Malaysia - Australia - New Zealand - Chile - Argentina - Uruguay - Paraguay - Bolivia - Panama - Nicaragua - Honduras - El Salvador - Belize - Guatemala - Mexico - UK

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

keen to host and surf, meet new people, learn new stuff

Interests

Love summer, pebble beaches, barbecues, long runs on the South Downs, homemade guacamole, new places, new people, bike rides, the beats, fanzines, tombolas, madonna, merlot, mangoes, Marmite

• marathon
• running
• walking
• traveling
• cycling
• skydiving
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Madonna, Cure, REM, Badly Drawn Boys, Bluetones, Charlatans, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mumford & Sons, On the Road, Naked Lunch, Big Sur, Lonesome Traveler, The Dharma Bums, The Time Traveler's Wife, Lolita, Catcher In The Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, William Carlos Williams, The Subterraneans, Bukowski, The Monster Garden, Howl, War Reporting for Cowards, Post Office, Barfly, Desolation Angels, Tristessa, W.B.Yeats, Grease, Bread and Roses, Apocalypse Now, Bad Education, Reality Bites, Solo Dios Lo Sabe, Amores Perros, Desperately Seeking Susan, Dexter, The Wire, Madmen, Fraggle Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- conquering the Inca Trail
- running the London Marathon 2009; running over Tower Bridge on a sunny day with 25,000 other people and many more cheering on is an experience hard to beat
- honeymooning with Rwandan mountain gorillas
- travelling across Siberia and Mongola in mid winter
- walking the Great Wall of China
- skydiving over Rotorua, NZ

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Slovakia, Thailand, Tunisia, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom