I have swum with dolphins, sea lions, octopus and sharks. I have hitchhiked from Paris to Madrid, along the way sleeping on park benches and being dropped off in the middle of nowhere - in the pouring rain - in the middle of the night - when I shunned the advances of French truckers.
As a writer, I come from a tradition of journalism, having spent ten years as a reporter on daily newspapers. However, my reading interests range from Alice in Wonderland to V.S. Pritchett, Nadine Gordimer and Mikhail Bulgakov.
