Born in Western Australia. Schooled in Perth, Karratha and Mandurah. Six months of uni at UWA doing Arts. Left uni and managed a fast food place. Left fast food place to manage a shoe store. Left shoe store to manage bigger shoe store for a bigger company. Left bigger company to travel Australia. Fell in love with Adelaide. Returned after travels to study International Studies at UniSA. Did Honours year. Won PhD scholarship. In between I fell in love with a French girl I probably don’t deserve and decided to quit Australia for Europe. Getting married in July to same French girl and thinking about our next move - Eastern Europe.