CURRENT MISSION

To right all the wrongs and explore the earth.

ABOUT ME

Hi, I am Danielle and I am totally hooked on hiking and globe seeing.

I have just walked the length of Britain, and it was a trip which entirely solidified my love of thru hiking. And the natural world.

Given the chance, I would do nothing but ramble, from place to place, for the rest of my days. And in fact, am currently hatching a plan to walk around the world in the future.

My other great love is writing. And usually, I write and walk at the same time.

One of the greatest lessons of my long walk through Britain, was how much people are a part of the topography, as the landscape itself is. And that brings me onto the reason I am here on Couch surfing.

I find that the more landscapes we learn about, the richer our lives become. And I feel precisely the same way about people too.

Every walk and trip I have taken, the people along the way have become a great part of the story. And so I am looking forward to connecting with many other humans, and those who have a similar rambling attitude to life!

Please find me @daniellemariehurren to read some of the adventures.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on couch surfing because I believe that there is more than one cultural truth in the world and I do not want my worldview or cultural understanding to be limited to the one single spot of the globe I grew up in. Travel is liberating, it liberates us from believing the customs of one single location are universal or have any real relevance beyond the borders of that place. The earth teaches us, and so all the places I go to and faces I see are my teachers and my books.

Look forward to hearing from you humans then!

Interests

I love nature, music, literature, travelling, food, writing, cinema, philosophy, politics. I eat a plant-based-diet and am always interested in checking out the whole foods restaurants in any place that I travel to.

• writing
• books
• literature
• politics
• chess
• music
• hiking
• mountains
• travelling
• nature
• thru hiking
• scrambling

Music, Movies, and Books

The Smiths, Morrissey, Kate Bush, Neil Young, Nick Cave, The Cranberries, The Cocteau Twins, Beatles, PJ Harvey, etc etc too many to mention.

Lots of books; Haruki Murakami, The Brontes, Thomas Hardy, Carson McCullers, Doris Lessing, Ian Mckewan, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Nabokov, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Robert MacFarlane, Benjamin Myers, Michel Faber.

Movies; 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lost in Translation, Women in Love (1969 version), Fantastic Planet, Studio Ghibli, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Stealing Beauty, Three Colours Trilogy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belgium, Cyprus, Egypt, England, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom