Grew up in the UK with a year in France and Germany, then spent a year with a backpack, doing volunteer work in Latin America. Returned to the UK but not for long, moved out to Dubai where I'm currently living.

Mother Theresa, Fidel Castro, Karl Rove, Muhammed Yunus, Warren Buffet, Stephen Fry

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

"Poverty is not what you see, but rather what you cannot see - a lack of jobs and opportunities"

"It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

Parts of Europe and the US, Central and South America, South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, southern and eastern Africa, Antarctica

I'm passionate about travel, learning about new cultures and new languages, also climbing and hope to climb to Everest base-camp and Aconcagua in Argentina at some point soon.

French, Spanish, some German and very minimal (!) Arabic