CURRENT MISSION

develop my creative skills. learn the tango.travel to more countries all over the world and meet some gorgeous loving creative people in these foreign lands.
meditate more regularly. take up yoga again.

Learn kizomba properly

ABOUT ME

Friendly, helpful, artistic and creative.
Love dancing, especially to Latin and African music.
I play guitar and like singing. I like to amend clothes, make ceramics, create necklaces, earrings, bracelets, make cushions and small bags.
I go to lots of art exhibitions and like interesting films.
I am interested in photography, architecture, history and complementary health, healing,meditation and buddhism.

PHILOSOPHY

Live in the moment

help others as much as possible

See life as a learning experience

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try to host people I know I can trust in my flat in London if I am around and not too busy.
I will meet you and take you out to salsa clubs kizomba etc.but cannot host.
My flat has building works.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

one very good experience in Antalya, Turkey, with a family.lovely people.One good experience in Grenada Caribbean staying on a cocoa farm.Hosted a young guy from Argentina several times in London and recently a lovely girl from the Tchec Republic who I keep in touch with.I went to Italy recently and stayed with a lady outside Florence but the place was very cold and there were no heaters at all in the house to use and warm it up a bit.I suffered from the cold so much especially as my room was not getting any sunshine and it was like a fridge in that room, all the time.

Interests

Reading
Sewing
Pottery
Photography
Art
Music making and going to concerts
European cinema
Dancing (African, Latin...)

• arts
• singing
• architecture
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• tango
• yoga
• meditation
• clothing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• pottery
• music
• guitar
• buddhist
• teaching
• history
• languages
• medicine
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

World music
jazz
funk
reggae

Books by Paolo Coelho. Personal development books.Complementary medicine manuels.The Sunday Papers.

Art movies - world cinema

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My travels around Indonesia. Borubodour.Sunrise on Mount Bromo.

Living in Africa with African families.Visiting some areas of north Thailand with a Thai friend from the Naan Province, on a motorbike and staying the night at a foresters village in the mountains. When I woke up we were above the clouds and looking at Laos.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am an ex school teacher

I can teach what I know about complementary medicine.massage.

I would love to improve my photography skills

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music. dancing.salsa lessons.guitar playing and singing. Languages (French-German-Italian-Spanish).good conversation. Making Art.

Countries I’ve Visited

Barbados, Croatia, Dominica, Egypt, France, Gambia, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Senegal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Morocco, United Kingdom, United States