Fishtails04's Traveler Profile

About Fishtails04

Profession

Teacher... I like the holiday allowance. But have also been a travel writer, travel agent, life model, chambermaid, sales assistant, bartender, waitress, store manager. traffic counter...

Favourite music

Lots... Irish traditional, Latin, blues, 80s, opera, 'world', folk...

Birthplace

In my mum's house

Favourite movie

Like Water for Chocolate, West Side Story, and Of Love and Shadows

Languages

English, Spanish, Irish, some Portuguese, some French

Favourite quote

"You are only young once but you can remain immature indefinitely" - Ogden Nash. "I have an insatiable greedinesse of seeing strange countries, which exercise is indeed the queene of all pleasures in the world." Tom Coryat, 1608.

Interests and hobbies

Travel, playing music, hiking/trekking, good food/wine/beer.

One thing I want to do before I die

There are far too many to limit to just one!

Favourite book

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

My friends describe me as

Depends which friends you ask!

The most amazing moment in my life so far

My first time scuba diving in the tropics, watching the first sun rise of a new year from a Japanese mountain top, getting trapped in a Tibetan village by an avalanche, being pecked by penguins in Antarctica, but best was reaching Everest Base Camp.