Mark Green is a freelance writer and musician. He has lived in the UK and Holland and has worked for three years in Paris and Luxembourg. He speaks French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian with varying degrees of fluency depending on how recently he has been in each country. He has travelled widely, visiting 62 countries at the last count. He loves good food and wine and likes to try the local cuisine wherever he goes but does draw the line at deep-fried grasshoppers.