My name is Ross, I have been around the sun twenty three times, I live in a city called Strasbourg in a country called France on a planet called Earth where I am learning how to live and die, how to laugh and how to weep and think and dance and do.

Also singing, playing guitar, writing, serving beer in a bar, stick making, co-running a micro-record label and part of an art collective, and generally trying to celebrate life!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To surf couches, of course! (and have mine surfed in return)

Interests

MUSIC (weapon of the future);

ART (high art, low art, up art, down art, west art, east art, south art, north art, wha?art...);

STORYTELLING (for earthly survival);

COOKING, EATING AND DRINKING (manger pour le coeur);

WORKING/THINKING WITH MY HANDS (to not go insane);

WALKING/HIKING/CONTEMPLATING/CAMPFIRES (keep it real)

The rest is for when we meet!

• arts
• writing
• books
• poetry
• singing
• concerts
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• anthropology
• cartography
• history
• languages
• films
• science fiction
• alcohol
• songwriting
• writing music
• songs
• writing songs
• singer songwriter
• writing poetry

Music, Movies, and Books

ANYTHING with HEART and SOUL !

Recently, I have been moved and stimulated by the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin, an anthology of 13th Century Chinese Poetry and the music of Son House

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Most reecently, a contemporary african dance workshop with Elsa Wolliaston (sternum, sacrum! sternum! sacrum!)

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH guitar, walking-stick making...

LEARN anything and everything !

SHARE songs, stories, love, ideas, drinks, food...

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United Kingdom