CURRENT MISSION

Maintain legal European visa status

ABOUT ME

HELLO, I am Anna: traveller, bibliophile, perennial student (now teacher? how did that happen?), and I may have been called a groupie more than once. My rather tomboyish childhood has not escaped me either.

Melburnian at heart who has well and truly adopted the city of Lyon as home.

PHILOSOPHY

Age is but a number.

One teabag goes a long way (3 cups minimum).

No need to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

**Once you pop you can't stop!**

Interests

Cooking (closely followed by eating), languages, word games, music inherited from mama & papa, dogs, cycling, swimming, Scrabble, translating, being in the sun, coming up with gangsta names for people.

• dogs
• festivals
• cooking
• cars
• music
• cycling
• swimming
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

A peculiar favourite from France

Exercices de Style - Raymond Queneau

Another Anna recently told me about this Hungarian (?) novel about a man who sells objects in exchange for time that sounded really interesting but I can't tell you more just yet as Google is eluding me.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lots of people do it, but I'm proud to say I recently hitchhiked home from Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona to Lyon.

5 cars, 10 hours, great people and conversations. A solid reminder of the generosity of strangers.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Spain

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