Hi. I'm pretty ancient but love getting away from the West every so often, exploring different cultures and landscapes, working out how to get a bus, planning next move, and hopefully sharing a tea, a beer, a meal with someone who speaks a bit of English that I've met at a cafe or asked for directions. Luckily my very well-travelled kids sometimes come with me - they don't mind walking for hours to find some place that someone said we should go to, but more often I am on my own, grabbing a couple of weeks away from my job as a designer for a book publisher. I play tennis and squash and football, and cycle round my home town of London, and I write techno-dancey-indie music tracks in my spare time. Recently I've been to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and India on my own, and Vietnam with my kids. (By the way, the photos I have of my home are a bit out of date since they were taken when I was renting my space out...I'll update them when I get round to it). Happy to provide a bedroom if it fits in with my schedule - all the more if you can fill me in on certain places like China, Pakistan, Central Asia, Eastern Europe

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

If I can find someone who can speaks a bit of English and give me some insight into the local psyche, that seems so much more fulfilling than checking into an apartment or hotel. And I'd love to offer a place to stay in my home in Camden, in a pretty cool part of London.

Музыка, кино и книги

Too many to list. Reading Proust at the moment - very slowly though
And well, if you twist my arm, Johnny Bristol's 'Hang on in there baby'

Классная вещь, которую я сделал(-а)

Went to the Ethiopian desert to see sulphur springs and an open volcano, in what claims to be the hottest place on earth (by 24-hour average: the temperature, unlike most hotter places, doesn't drop at night time)

Учу, учусь, делюсь опытом и информацией

InDesign and Logic. Game of tennis.

Чем я могу поделиться с хостами

Honesty, sincerity, reliability, respect, laughs.

Где я побывал(-а)

Albania, Armenia, Brazil, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Philippines, Russian Federation, United States, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Где я жил(-а)

Portugal, United Kingdom