CURRENT MISSION

To encounter as many peoples, languages, cultures, tasty morsels as we can. To then find our lives' calling through our discovery.

ABOUT ME

We are a long-term fusion of two souls, best mates, and partners in adventure. We share passions for world affairs, food, architecture (although our tastes differ greatly), art, music of all timbres but especially of the electronic kind, history, language. We each have a tardis of love for kind and open-minded creatures. We are in our element when surrounded by such people and a good bottle of wine or a nice brew...we like a good party. We've both lived in Japan which kick-started our mutual addiction for both the Japanese culture and language, as well as for other travelling. The proverbial bug well and truly bit us on the butt. We haven't been able to sit still since. The female half of the duo, Mel, is an aspiring photojournalist. The male half, Ben, could talk the ear off a corn...about just about anything. We're really excited about meeting you!

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PHILOSOPHY

"YES!"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We're both free spirits who want to do good in the world. When we have a more fixed address we'd love to host hundreds of new friends. Until then we're keen to catch up with people for drinks etc. in this amazing city we find ourselves in at present, Brighton, England. We believe you only should get out what you put in, and we would love to infect others with curiosity, enthusiasm and fun-loving nature.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in Prague and Budapest during July-August 2011. Had an amazing time with lovely, engaging, generous and happy people!! We are still mid-trip and have more hosts coming up. Looking forward to hosting in the future once we have our own place :)

Interests

Our interest in things is exponentially increasing daily, with the more things we learn about.

• arts
• culture
• architecture
• dining
• wine
• partying
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
The God of Small Things, by Arundathi Roy.
The Outsider, by Albert Camus
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

Movies:
Slingblade, Adaptation, Into the Wild, Forrest Gump

Music:
Boards of Canada, Jaia, Adele, Ani DiFranco, Infected Mushroom, Bjork, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Augie March, Penelope Swales, Architecture in Helsinki, Animal Collective, Antony and the Johnsons, Manhattan Transfer, Borgore, Gotye, Orbital, Lamb.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Ben : seeing the Simpson desert in bloom, a once-in-five-year event.
Mel : Perching atop Mayan pyramids above the thick Guatemalan jungle, the sun setting and the monkeys and parrots noisily settling down for the night. Perfect peace.

Teach, Learn, Share

Most Australians (95%) live along the coast, which leaves a huge chunk of land waiting for virgin footsteps.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Japan, United Kingdom

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