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 (By the way, the photos I have of my home are a bit out of date since they were taken when I was renting my space out...I'll update them when I get round to it).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

Pourquoi je suis sur 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.

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

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'

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

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)

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

InDesign and Logic. Game of tennis.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Honesty, sincerity, reliability, respect, laughs.

Pays que j'ai visités

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

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Portugal, United Kingdom