CURRENT MISSION

foreign swimming

ABOUT ME

I'm a musician and physics graduate working for a science publisher in Bristol, where I've lived for 6 years. I like meals, noises, outdoor pursuits, and getting lots of sleep.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new to it! I did some travelling around couches and spare rooms of the US when I was 18, though.

Interests

Playing the clarinet (and other things) in various bands, cooking and baking, eating, growing vegetables, cycling, river swimming, museums, photography, running a record label and visiting pubs.

• photography
• cooking
• baking
• running
• pub crawls
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• swimming
• physics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

lots and lots. novels of the jazz age and the depression. kurt vonnegut, cormac mccarthy, john steinbeck, tove jansson.
music: a lot of my friend's bands; also sufjan stevens, tindersticks, smog, tenniscoats, thanksgiving, jeffrey lewis, robert wyatt, trad jazz/ragtime, mingus, etc etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

As far as awestruck encounters with the natural world go, probably watching the endless prairie slip by at sunset from the window of the Amtrak out of Chicago. I swam in the Baltic recently, that was a good time. Other than that, I tend to take pleasure from the more mundane joys in life.

Teach, Learn, Share

Mostly cooking. Or baking. Or tediously answering basic physics questions.