CURRENT MISSION

Interacting with interesting people and cultures/Seeing as much of the world as i can before it's too late

ABOUT ME

I'm an easy going and chilled person, curious, eager to learn new things and discover new places. Open mindedness really important to me.

Currently based in Makati City, Manila. Working on Typhoon Haiyan response.

PHILOSOPHY

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

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"Not all those who wander are lost"

J.R.R. Tolkien

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have hosted many people in several countries and stayed on couches in all sorts of places.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Great initiative, wonderful idea. So pure and simple but so wonderful.

Interests

Photography - Lomography, GoPros, my Leica M5, my Nikon DSLR
Travelling - ideally on motorbikes, floating crafts of some kind or trains
Dancing - to music which makes me smile
Food - the slowcooked, made with love sort
Smells - Jasmine, Lavender, sandalwood, and (somehow) that pungent african odour of burning rubbish
Drink - Hendricks, Campari and um water?
Literature - of the kind that has something fundamentally important to say
Cinema - which opens your eyes and your mind to something

• literature
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• drinking
• crafts
• movies
• traveling
• music
• sailing
• world cup
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunrise over lake Tanganyika, Burundi.

Arriving at the summit of Mount Nyiragongo in Congo and seeing the lava lake at the heart of the volcano.

An (apparently) attempted coup d'etat in Juba, South Sudan.

The view of the Virunga volcanoes over the border area between Uganda, DRC and Rwanda.

Watching the sun rise over Amboseli national park in southern Kenya - revealing Mount Kilimanjaro towering over the elephant filled plains.

Scenes of conflict/peacekeepers/refugees in Goma, DR Congo.

Sunrise over tikal.

Sailed Colombia-Panama via San Blas islands in Caribe.

Italy winning world cup 2006, team returning home to 900,000 fans in circus maximus..

Dona Catalina's place in Oaxaca hills, Mexico.

Ilha Grande in Rio State, Brazil..

Dali plains, Bolivia on the way to Salar de Uyuni.

Semuc Champey, Guatemala.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Rwanda, Seychelles, Slovakia, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Burundi, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom