CURRENT MISSION

To discover a little bit more about the world each day

ABOUT ME

Hello! I'm Joe, it's lovely to meet you!

I love travel and adventure, and will often throw myself into expeditions on the spur of the moment. In January 2010 I quit my run-of-the-mill office job and left the UK with no plans or directions home. I ended up hitch hiking and volunteering across France, Italy and Spain, discovering the wonderful world of couch surfing, undertaking a 1000 km cycle ride on a bike given to me by a group of travellers running a bar in an isolated Pyrenean hamlet, struggling to sleep under the midnight sun on my first ever CS experience, working on a fishing boat in the Arctic Circle and as a shepherd in some of the most beautiful and uninhabited land imaginable. Along the way I encountered some of the most incredible people you could ever wish to meet, and not a day goes by when I donâ

PHILOSOPHY

Be excellent to each other. Always.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been hosted by...

Hege from Norway in Tromso

I have hosted...

Triin from Estonia in Olderfjord, Norway
Alice from England in Olderfjord, Norway

Interests

Time (&) Travel, Art, Photography, Music, Literature, Cycling, Football, Dancing like nobody is watching, Politics, Music, Rain, Drinking, Dressing up as a Lion and hiding in wardrobes, Sweets, Tea, Films, Chair Design, Duvets, Sledging, Passion, Pears, Brunch, Animals, Chess, Reminiscing, Wreckless Abandon, Fire, Sailing and Splendour in all its forms.

• animals
• arts
• literature
• design
• photography
• dancing
• running
• drinking
• boating
• politics
• movies
• chess
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• surfing
• sailing
• soccer
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

All the Real Girls, Back to the Future, Casablanca, Dark Knight, the Edukators, Fight Club, Ghostbusters, Hotel Rwanda, In Bruges, the Jungle Book, Kingpin, Little Miss Sunshine, Monsters Inc, Never Ending Story, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Stand by Me, the Truman Show, The Usual Suspects, the Van, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Yes Man, Zoolander.

Alan Semerdjian, Brand New, Cat Power, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Emma Russack, Faithless, Gram Parsons, Hope of the States, Idlewild, Jimmy Eat World, King Adora, Lupe Fiasco, Manchester Orchestra, Nelly Furtado, Otis Redding, Pink Floyd, Regina Spektor, She & Him, These Electric Lives, Vines, Willy Mason, Xzibit, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zutons

All Played Out, Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, Brave New World, Catcher in the Rye, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, East of Eden, Frankenstein, Grapes of Wrath, the Great Gatsby, Homage to Catalonia, Light in August, Lord of the Flies, the Miracle of Castel Di Sangro, Nineteen Eighty-Four, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Plague, To Kill A Mockingbird, When We Were Six,

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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