CURRENT MISSION

Do what you feel. Finish what you start.

ABOUT ME

I love travelling, particularly in Asia, and have lived in Japan and Seoul, South Korea. I've been to over 30 countries on 4 continents, and hope this number will keep growing. I like travelling overland, preferably by train, and dream of doing a big overland trip from London to Melbourne, Australia! I enjoy learning languages, and am currently trying to improve my Japanese and Korean, as well as learn Spanish.

At the moment I work as a magazine editor at an educational publishing company in London.

Apart from travel and photography I enjoy watching movies, reading books, socialising with friends, going to galleries, exhibitions, pubs, parks and markets, and watching baseball and football.

PHILOSOPHY

“I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By couchsurfing and hosting couchsurfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in Japan (Feb 2009), Vietnam (2010), Croatia (2011), Istanbul, Turkey (2011), Vienna, Austria (2011)

Interests

See above

• books
• photography
• walking
• drinking
• pub crawls
• boating
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• baseball
• rock climbing
• soccer
• languages
• beaches
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

I like indie music! Belle and Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Noah and the Whale, Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, Beirut, The XX, The Libertines, Bright Eyes, Johnny Cash, The Killers, PJ Harvey, Bloc Party, Mumford & Sons, Florence and the Machine, Harper Simon, Paul Simon, Velvet Underground.

Favourite movies include Lost in Translation, the Godfather, Chungking Express, Linda Linda, Moonrise Kingdom. I try to see as many new movies as possible.

Favourite books include On the Road, Name of the Rose, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Death and the Penguin, and most books by Haruki Murakami and Paul Theroux. And George RR Martin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I recommend...

Walking on the drift ice on the Sea of Okhotsk in Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan

Sleeping on a mattress under the stars in the desert near Merzouga, Morocco

Climbing the snow-capped peaks of Seoraksan, South Korea

Hopping from Europe to Asia for a night of drinking in Kadıköy, Istanbul

Hiring a boat, buying several pizzas and spending Christmas Day on a beach on an island near El Nido, Philippines

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom

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