About me
I was born in 1976 in the town of Baia Mare in the NW of Transilvania (Romania). Baia Mare was then a primarily mining town with industry drawing upon it. Nevertheless it is situated in a beautiful valley within mountains and hills, surrounded by lakes and rivers and forests. It is there where I found so much fun being a child, swimming, trekking, climbing, skiing, caving, exploring ruins, abandoned mines and so on.
When I finished school I went on to study Philosophy and Anthropology in the city of Cluj where I took my B.A. with honours from Babes-Bolyai University. A year later I received my M.A. in Classical Philosophy from the same university and, via a short stop in Ireland on a research fellowship at Trinity Colege Dublin, I moved to England where I received my Cert. Teach. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of London.
In 2004 I moved to China where I lived, taught, climbed and benefited from the hospitality of the Chinese people until my return to Romania on the eve of the 2009 New Year. By the autumn of 2010 I left Romania, this time for Hong Kong.
Teaching is my main trade (although the subjects and levels varied over the years) while I also do adventure sports consulting work, working mainly as climbing and mountaineering instructor and guide.
My passions are climbing, horse riding, scuba diving, martial arts and traveling (the more exploratory the better).
