CURRENT MISSION

To see the hidden parts of cities

PHILOSOPHY

I try to live life to the full. We only have a limited time on this planet, so we may as well make the most of it. Do something exciting and something that scares you every day!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now I am travelling so cannot offer my couch, but I hope to be able to provide somewhere for people to stay as soon as I am home. I want to be able to participate in the expansion of this network and enable people to travel in the UK at ease. I want to explore the places that I visit in an un-touristy way; meet the locals, find and explore places that are more personal and perhaps therefore with more character than what I might find by following a guide book, even an alternative one!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As of yet I have not had any CS experience but hopefully this will change soon!

Interests

Theatre, literature, music, film, art... anything creative and artistic really!

AND shopping, coffee shops, parties, cocktails, getting caught in very heavy rain, summer, winter, fireworks, evenings, hanging out with friends, reading, shoes, drinking wine and eating a pizza at home in front of a good film...

• cats
• arts
• books
• literature
• wine
• cocktails
• coffee
• partying
• drinking
• shopping
• reading
• traveling
• music
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Some music examples in no particular order:
muse, bob dylan, the waterboys, the beatles, the kinks, roger waters, agic numbers, angus and julia stone, cat stephens, eva cassidy, katie melua, fish, new buffalo, john mayer, tom waites, nick cave, joan baez, the arcade fire, simon and garfunkel, sandy denny, carole king, melanie, van morrison, elton john, Kings of leon, sinnead o'connor, snow patrol, the fray, lily allen, we are scientists, editors, guillemots, hot chip, lots of random stuff...

Some films, again in no particular order:
control, pan's labyrinth, La Vie En Rose, mrs brown (well, anything with judi dench), cool hand luke, la vita e bella, cinema paridiso, cabaret, notting hill,
the shawshank redemption, four weddings and a funeral, chocolat, one fllew over the cuckoo's nest, all the lord of the rings films, se7en, leon, the elephant man, united 93, fargo, the green mile, little miss sunshine, walk the line, love actually, harry potter 3-5, the butterfly effect, oh yea, and finding nemo - dory is my soul mate!

Some books:
the book thief, the kite runner, the devil wears prada, birdsong, harry potter, the crucible, various shakespeare plays (romeo and juliet, a midsummer night's dream, king lear, richard II, the scottish play, hamlet, the merchant of venice...), last easter

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent three weeks in Tanzania a few years ago. One night I was sharing a tent with my little sister and was woken up at about 3am by what sounded like a really loud cat. Turns out it was a lion. A big one (huge footprints in the dust the following morning!) He lay down outside our tent and kept yawning, meowing (in a scary, lion-esque way), and roaring until about 6am. Needless to say, I got no sleep that night! Pretty amazing thing - although heard rather than seen :/