Haven't been on here for about 10 years, so will update my profile in due course. But... travelled a lot for work, lived in a bunch of countries.

Friendly, chatty, love to meet new people, travel, experience things, but also have my chilled side and love my routine when I'm at home (I start to break down if I don't get my sauna time a couple times a week)..

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

looking for the opportunity to stay with locals when I travel, to get a better sense of a place. When I'm at home I like to return the favour and give people a friendly space to put their feet up and chill, and a sense of what my hometown is like.

兴趣

The stuff below was written maybe 15 years ago, some things change, some stay the same lol. Am a bit more settled now, Work keeps me very busy, and I quit drinking a few years back (aside from the occasional social glass or two of something quality).. Took up bouldering a few years back and love it. Trying to get back into running (not really succeeding but am committed to considering it on a regular basis)

Travel is a big interest for me. Not so much the museums and stag nights but the feeling of being able to call a new city home.

I am a 'good to quite good' vegetarian cook and enjoy cooking Italian and Indian dishes. You are welcome to try my 'Natural Selection Curry' and teach me something new.

Languages are also a bit of a hobby - whenever I travel somewhere I always like to be able to communicate to people in the local language.
Videogames, being my career, are also a major interest for me. Aside from studying them, I like to get lost in a good game of Homeworld or Civilisation every now and then.

Snowboarding is a hobby I took up last winter and I really enjoyed it - nothing like that crisp air to evaporate a hangover.

Also, kyaking used to be a big hobby of mine, though I've let it slip the last few years.

And recently I've started learning to play squash. That means lots of running into walls at high speed or spining around and falling over plus occasionally scoring a point.

Oh, I guess I should clarify that being Irish, I do like to drink lots of beer, especially Guinness (and yes, it does somehow manage to taste better in Ireland - maybe they just know how to pour it?)

• books
• design
• make up
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• vegetarian
• vegan
• running
• drinking
• traveling
• snowboarding
• racquetball
• languages
• squash

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies: Jaws (masterpiece on so many levels), Dawn of the dead, Monty Python's "the meaning of life", Akira, The Village.

T.V.: Ren & Stimpy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Tux6s7y_g), South Park, Bagpuss, Look Around You, Dark Place...

Albums: 99.9F, A Hundred Days Off, Siamese Dream, Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs, In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country.

Books: Skyscrapers Of The Midwest, Consider Phlebas, Dreams & Recollections of C. Jung, Europe: A History, Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience.

Games: Alpha Centauri, Rez, VF2, Left 4 Dead, Thief: The Dark Project.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Visiting Disney world in Florida as a child (its amazing when you're 10).

There was also that time when a raven led me up a snowy mountainside...

Sky diving was great, as was a weekend Ayahuasca retreat in the Argentine jungle...

教，学，和分享

Happy to teach what I know, creating nice vegan food, designing video games, managing and working with teams of creatives, leveraging sarcasm to survive in the corporate wasteland ;)

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

See the previous section :)

我游览过的国家

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland

我居住过的国家

Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

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