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chris

Cosmopolitan:well travelled (now in Nanjing China)

About Me

Enjoy exploring the immense variety and similarities to be found in different countries around the world - Photogrphy is a passion there is so much to see (landscapes and people) with my three cameras Minolta SLR or Canon Digi Cam's - Enjoy meting people of all different ages across the world.

My Interests

I am an out going gregarious person who enjoys spending time with a wide spectrum of people - I have friends from all over the world representing many different continents and cutures.My interests are diverse I am an avid traveller especially exploring new scenery off the beaten track and of course meeting new people (occasionally in person as well as on the internet).Cycling Photography Classical Cultures History and reading are my main interests and of course when I can make the time The NET !!Listen to a a great deal of Music - from modern to classic Rock - Jazz to Pop and from Classical Symphony, Plain chant through to Opera and Choral music.and much much more (lol) .......

I'd like to meet:

You !!

Music:

CLassical Beethoven Mozart Tchaikovsky Chopin Puccini Brams Handel & others Jazz: Dave Brubeck & others -- Rock: The Doors Led Zeppelin Rolling Stones Beatles AC/DC Cream King Crimson Pink Floyd Uriah Heep Free Bad Company The Byrds The Who Iron Butterfly Eagles Wishbone Ash Blondie Roxy Music Joni Mitchell Jimi HendrixEric Clapton Joe Cocker Supertramp The Animals Hawkwind & so many others ............

Movies:

Zabriski point - 2001 Sapce Oddessy - A clockwork Orange - If - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Seven Sammerai (japanese) - Dr Strangelove- A Strawberry Statement - The French Connection - Un Homme et Une Famme (french) - Lola (german) - Doctor Zhivago - Das Boot (german) - Klute - Die unertraetliche Leichtigkeit des Seins - The Lord Of the Rings many others ....

Television:

Little time now for much outside specific sporting events and the news ......however ... UK televion love comedy and satire .... Have I got News for you & Dead Ringers - oldies Monty Python - ,Benny Hill - Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and Period Dramas - US TV imports Hill Street Blues and the excellent CSI series.

Books:

Jean Paul Sartre - Albert Camus - Thomas Mann - Milan Kundera - Franz Kafka - Aldus Huxley - WH Auden - William Shaekespeare - The Bible - The Koran - Iris Murdoch - Tolkien - Herman Hesse - Fredriech Durrenmatt - Jane Austin - Thomas Hardy - Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Fyodor Dostoevsky- Anton Chekhov – Leo Tolstoy - Mikhail Sholokhov - Truman Capote – John Steinbeck.- Henry James - many many others

Heroes:

Alexander the Great - Hanibal - Charles Wesley - Betrand Russell - Ludwig Wittgenstein - Albert Einstein - John F Kenedy - Mikael Gorbachov