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 (By the way, the photos I have of my home are a bit out of date since they were taken when I was renting my space out...I'll update them when I get round to it).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

我为什么加入 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 very cool part of London. More immediately, I'm going to Kazakhstan at the end of June 2023, and then to Kyrgyzstan for a few days, and it would be nice to hook up ...

音乐、电影和书籍

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'

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

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)

教，学，和分享

InDesign and Logic. Game of tennis.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Honesty, sincerity, reliability, respect, laughs.

我游览过的国家

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

我居住过的国家

Portugal, United Kingdom