In 2000 while working at a Waldorf community in Wexford, Ireland he met Adrienn and before he knew it was teaching English in Eger, Hungary. Since 2003 he has been working at Eszterházy Károly F?iskola in the English department.

For the past two years he has been organising Eger Walking Tours, a very small enterprise that organises sightseeing trips and wine-tasting for tourists in Eger and its surroundings.

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
I came here in 2001- enchanted by one of the famous Eger women. Since then we have got married and had a son, Gergely.

2. Have you ever been anexpatriate elsewhere?
I don't know. I was born in Ireland, educated in the U.K., then I went back to Ireland, to university, and then back to the U.K., to work, then to Ireland again and ,finally, I came here. So I am not really an expat as I have nowhere to be an expat from if you see what I mean.

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
Everything, prior to moving here my only exposure to anything Hungarain had been eating a rather watery substance at school which someone had chosen to give the name 'Ghoulash' to.Oh yes, and my future wife had taught me to count to 10 in Hungarian which was very useful when trying to get a taxi from Ferihegy

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
A weekend is far too short a time to do anything meaningful in Budapest, so I would recommend they come to Eger instead - just the right size for a weekend's exploring and crammed with sights and activities for the discerning tourist.'An undiscovered gem' to coin a phrase from the tourist industry

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Favourite Hungarian food-Kolbász (with a slice of white bread and mustard on a paper plate at a market). Lángos is pretty good too.
Favourite Hungarian dish: Paloc leves (as made by my father-in-law)

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Cheese

7.What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Kukorica

8. What do you miss most from home?
The sea.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
A butler in a large country house.

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
I don't know

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
In Umbria, Italy

12. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?
In Umbria, Italy

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
I was an angst-ridden teen and loved Joy Division, The Teardrop Explodes etc. My favourite film was 'Some Kind of Wonderful' and my hobby was avoiding work of any kind and looking incredibly miserable at the same . I was a pain in the ass.

14. What can't you resist?
Chocolate

15. Red wine or white?
I gave up drinking a while back and am now partial to a still mineral water.

16. Book or movie?
Movie

17. Morning person or night person?
Morning

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Today I feel most strongly about corruption in public life- enough said

19. Buda or Pest side?
When i go to Budapest I stay on the Pest side (cheaper) but prefer the Buda side

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Patience, patience, patience, patience.....