BIO: From the fields of Limerick to the lights of London - via Vienna, Manhattan, Montmartre, Palermo, Prague, Brussels, Berlin - some of the places I've worked, loved and laughed in. The day jobs are too numerous to mention.

The highbrow stuff:

• Graduate of Vienna University, fluent in German, French & Italian.
• EU interpreter in Brussels
• UN radio journalist in New York
• Tourist guide in Munich
• BBC TV: researcher/producer. Scriptwriter

• Paris - selling foie gras dressed up as an Alsatian in a railway station
• Vienna - artists' model
• London - playing a medieval sex crazed nun for a serious documentary
• Philadelphia - hawking my sister's sophisticated jewelry in the Food Hall opposite a mountain of Amish chickens parts