CURRENT MISSION

To enjoy life and travelling at a more sedate pace than the last 8 years...they've been amazing, but the baby demands I SLOW down!

ABOUT ME

I tend to fill up my time pretty far into the future (I like a 'grand' plan!). So if you're thinking of heading over to Wales, don't be shy to ask to surf far in advance! I'm aiming to spend the rest of my life with the kind of travel/work balance that my University days allowed. I enjoy hard hard work in concentrated bursts, then enough play time to recover! Any tips on careers to maximise play time and minimise work time gratefully received!

PHILOSOPHY

What goes around comes around...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My husband and I have been keen to host for the last year or so, though we've been crazy busy with work: it's my first year in a proper teaching job and my husband is finishing a PHD. We are just in the process of buying a house....and we are expecting a baby this winter...! So, we're taking a few months out of hosting (and surfing!) because with all the mini dramas that come with buying a house and getting increasingly bigger day by day...we're not feeling very reliable as hosts. Ask us for a coffee, a surf (in the sea), a walk or a tour of the town and I'm sure we'll find time though!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've loved all the amazingly generous people I've met whilst travelling, I need to share out my couch in exchange for all the great floor spaces/beds I've laid down on! Buses and other transport have proved especially good places to meet lovely people. Or whilst looking lost with a map on a street corner, many wonderful people have come to my aid.

Interests

Photography, learning new languages (Welsh at the moment! arrgh!), living and travelling abroad, surfing, hiking.

• fish
• photography
• cooking
• coffee
• traveling
• fishing
• hiking
• surfing
• paragliding
• swimming
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite books = Catch 22, Still Life with Woodpecker, Catcher in the Rye, The Wrong Boy (Willy Russell). Music = live preferably.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mmm...skinny-dipping in the Cook Islands with electric blue tiny fish swimming around me...and in a deserted beach up in Scotland's Outer Hebrides - cold!

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to cook...I take a decent photo...I want to speak Welsh...I want to paraglide (again)...

Countries I’ve Visited

Japan, South Korea

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom