CURRENT MISSION

To meet lots of interesting people and explore...

ABOUT ME

I (Emily) am doing a PhD at the University of Manchester looking at therapies for schizophrenia. Ruairi is also doing a PhD, looking at sustainable resource use and low carbon infrastructure at University of Leeds.

We both enjoy spending lots of time outside - running, cycling and walking. We also love good food and good beer and wine.

We live in Leeds at the moment but we are looking to move to Huddersfield in the near future to be a bit closer to Manchester.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not much at present. Been to a few CS meets and met some lovely people. We've also hosted a couple of lovely people.

Interests

Food (cooking/eating/growing/talking about/thinking about), sustainability, cycling (road/cyclocross/mtb), running, walking, reading, knitting and crochet (Emily only!), camping, films, music.

• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• running
• walking
• movies
• reading
• crochet
• knitting
• music
• violin
• cycling
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

These change all the time but recently I've watched/read/listened to and enjoyed:

Films:
The Big Picture
The Lives of Others
The Beat That my Heart Skipped
The Big Lebowski

Books:
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Anything Murakami!

Music:
Everything Everything
The National
Blue Roses
Alt-J
Sufjan Stevens
Beirut

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to cook, crochet, play the violin...

Ruairi can teach you how to fix a bike and tell you pretty much anything there is to know about bikes...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, France, United Kingdom