HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING In addition to surfing, I worked on a small project where I took short (like one or two minutes) interviews with my CouchSurfing hosts and other travellers I met. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcURhHp7iJg If you don't like being on film, or just don't like your likeness cut into an overly sentimental montage, never fear. I sold my camera to fund the Philippines trip, so your faces are safe for the time being*. *Safe from cameras. I can't vouch for anything else that may or may not happen to your face whilst travelling. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I cut a fair swathe of Europe through CS for about four months in 2009. I attempted to host in a small town in remote regional Philippines in 2010 with mixed (read: No) success. Amazingly, nobody wanted to join me to stay in the sweet little town next to the sweet ginormous power plant. Except my Dutch girlfriend, who is technically a Couchsurfer. (Buuut if we're getting technical, I'm pretty sure you get no CS karma points for hosting your own girlfriend)

Could go on forever. Some of my favourite bands are: Angus & Julia Stone The Avalanches Arcade Fire Beirut Bloc Party Broken Social Scene Cat Power Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Crookers Death From Above 1979 Devotchka Elvis Perkins Explosions in the Sky The Fiery Furnaces Interpol Jeff Buckley Laura Little Ice Age M83 Patrick Watson Phoenix Portishead Radiohead Sparkadia The Do The Maccabees The Twelves The Walkmen.....(okay that's overdoing it maybe) Movies: As with music, I can usually find something I enjoy in any genre. My all time favourite is Memento. Books: Some I have enjoyed: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathon Safran Foer High Society - Ben Elton A Certain Chemistry - Mil Millington Bad Science - Ben Goldacre The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon HTWFAIP - Dale Carnegie One Day - David Nicholls