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Overview

  • 11 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • English Teacher
  • School, Sixth form college, University
  • From Colchester, Essex, UK
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To visit strange new worlds

ABOUT ME

Im 26, (mis)spent my youth in my home town Colchester before moving to New Cross, London to study music at university. After that I Spent 9 months in South America working on farms and mooching around.In March 2010 I moved to Spain to be an English Teacher. I lived in Madrid (La Latina) with two other musicians, one of which is also working as a tour guide in Madrid and knows alot of cool and interesting facts/stories!Im also a vegetarian, not that interesting I know but believe me in Spain its somewhat of a rarity so strength in numbers and all that..January 2012. Have very recently moved to Tel Aviv to be with my girlfriend. Cant host anybody right now but if you fancy meeting up and exploring then please get in touch!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing and attending events/lectures/meetups or whatever else people organise on Cs.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have surfed/hosted and always had a positive experience. In fact, Im still in touch with my first ever host and we even met up again in another country to surf together.

Interests

Music, Guitar, Books, speaking Spanish, wwoofing, cooking soups, swimming, yoga.

  • books
  • cooking
  • vegetarian
  • yoga
  • music
  • guitar
  • surfing
  • swimming
  • teaching
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Pretty much anything foreign with alot of fuzz and heavy drums, Herman Hesse, Laurie Lee, Camus, Comets On Fire, Acid Mothers Temple, Bert Jansch, Nic Jones, Davy Graham, Hemingway...

Bach, Albeniz, Barrios, Tarrega, DH Lawrence, Bob Dylan, Michael Chapman, Bert Jansch, Julian Bream.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hhhmm, the time I spent living in Chilean Patagonia cutting down trees and building dams to produce our electricity was pretty special.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach some guitar and Spanish to anyone who's interested. Am now trying to improve my hebrew...

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