Hello, I'm Alan and I have been teaching English and Music for over 20 years. My real passions are playing the trumpet, which I have done semi-professionally over the years, and more recently jazz keyboard. Also, I am a keen cyclist, long distance runner and a great lover of red wine, fine food and meeting new people. My wife and I presently live in Burgundy, France have mainly lived and worked abroad since 1991.

My immediate goal is to set up an English language teaching business online. I already have a website up and running but as yet, have no students. Over the last couple of months, I have felt quite lost in the whole process of how to drive traffic to the site and keep coming up against different hurdles and need answers without having to trawl through the net endlessly to find them. I thought that being part of a community would be helpful and, well, quite frankly a much less solitary and frustrating experience.

Look forward to connecting with more people and finding out some answers on how to make it work online.