CURRENT MISSION

To befriend good people about the globe, feast, laugh, and revel.

ABOUT ME

Ruby: at times I wish I could simultaneously lead multiple lives because I am inspired and drawn to so many things. I want to be a gypsy lady like my mother and my grandmother and keep moving, performing, charming, missing trains and collecting stories of laughter and love. I also aspire to work for the UN because I, perhaps naively, believe in efficiency, governance and the goodwill of most human beings. And there are days, a lot of days, where I imagine building a house with my own two hands in the country, and watching things grow and thrive, starting a jug band, eating food we grow and playing instruments in an ampitheatre of trees for all critters.

PHILOSOPHY

Cheers to the absurdity, the wonder and abundace of it all.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We have stayed with people all around the world and now we have a little cottage of our own where we can joyfully give back the hopsitality. Its funny when you invite someone to stay over and they thing we're joking or being polite; no stay! make yourself a drink, kick back, the more the merrier!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We just hosted a fantastic Irish couple, we wanted them to stay longer. We're looking forward to guests in the future and staying with people in our upcoming trip to Germany.

Interests

Cooking and eating, music, playing musical instruments, dancing, traveling, making and reading maps, learning and discussing languages, debaucherous and darelict schemes and activities, plotting our escape from the confines of full time work!

• arts
• singing
• performing arts
• design
• dancing
• tap dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• magic
• music
• trumpet
• equestrian
• cartography
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Ruby: the beatles, stevie wonder, david bowie, bjork, beck, zapmama, erykah badu, toumani diabate, fela kuti, taj mahal, johnny cash, bebel gilberto, miles davis, thelonious monk, dizzy gillespie, billy holiday, the kings of convenience, mum, depeche mode, broadcast, cat power, smog, joy division, gang of four, beethoven, chopin, satie, bebop, salsa, bossa nova, reggae, hip hop, anything i can dance to.

Pete: The Pogues, Tom Waits, Bob Dyland, The Devil Makes Three, Cat Stevens, Townes Van Zandt, Dropkick Murphys, Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, The Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke, Andrew Bird

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Ruby: I rode horseback around the pyramids of Giza at night.

Pete: The experience of playing and speaking as Cyrano de Bergerac.

Teach, Learn, Share

Ruby: I could teach you how to play the trumpet, sing in solfege, basic sewing, beginning French, give advice on traveling in South East Asia or West Africa, costume design, share ideas on communal living and performance art. I would like to learn: how to make wine and spirits, figure drawing, tap dancing, magic tricks, card games, ways of doing more things for free.

Countries I’ve Visited

Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Niger, Thailand, United States

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