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Overview

  • 29 references 21 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning Spanish
  • 42, Other
  • Member since 2008
  • Architect
  • B.Architecture (Honours) UWA
  • From Perth, Western Australia
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Let couchsurfers in on the secrets of Perth......

ABOUT ME

Well......we´re actually two people. James Thompson and Andreia Rodrigues.....we met in London in 2003 and have been inseperable since. We love to travel and meet people and are currently back in Perth after a year of 'Temporary retirement'in 2008. So if you're in the area drop us a line,we´re easy going people who respect all cultures.

PHILOSOPHY

Be Good to people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We have participated unofficially with the couch surfing project for the last 4 years through our great friend Matt Porter the Couchsurfing Ambassador for Perth, Western Australia. With him we have shown Couchsurfers from all corners of the world around our 'lil corner of the world. Through this we have made many good contacts and life long friends....

Interests

Meeting people
Music
Art
Architecture
Food/ Cooking
Film
Nature
Anthropology
International relations
Sport
........And everything that´s fun and interesting

  • arts
  • architecture
  • dining
  • cooking
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • surfing
  • sports
  • anthropology
  • international relations

Music, Movies, and Books

There are way too many for us to list here but below is a selection:

Movies by: Pedro Almodovar, John-Pierre Jeunet, Tarantino, Kubrik, Emir Kusturica, Tony Gatliff, Tim Burton, Coen Brothers, Akira Kurosawa.....

Books by: Milan Kundera, Shaun Tan, Edgar Allen Poe, Cormac McArthy, John Steinbeck,Bill Bryson,Paulo Coelho, Stephen Fry, Jack Kerouac, Hunter.S.Thompson...

Music by: Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Battles,
Taraf de Haidouks, Massive Attack, Fleet Foxes, Sigur Ros, Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Grinderman, Radiohead, Portishead, Talking Heads, Unkle, Bowie, The Cure, Joy Division, Beirut, The Dirty Three....

And many many more!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Recently in Vietnam we made friends with some locals and took on a 1000km motorcycle trek through the central highlands and down the Ho Chi Minh trail to Hoi An. Dodging trucks, breaking down and being shown another side of Vietnam was seriously amazing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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