Available to host in Pesaro and hangout in Rimini province 🛋️🌄 fooooood circle now
Musicians, dancers, jugglers, healers 🪉🤹🏽‍♀️🪇 I'd be glad to perform in the streets together 🪳💡 come see fireflies in the surrounding forest 🪾🪔

I'm a nomad hitchhiker continuously travelling for four years, i was in Hormoz island of Iran all winter long, selling necklaces and playing tribal music with so many persian artists and hippie backpackers staying there having wonderful harmonious life in warm weather 🌅 Some of them were on adventure with me in Armenia last summer or Georgia in autumn, when i started to do freestyle and ecstatic dance in the streets to fund my path. After hitchhiking to Baluchestan and Shiraz, i was on a 20 hours bus to Mashhad, ready to get the visa for Afghanistan when i decided to go to my hometown take care of my old grandparents. Instead of that visa for a month and one more iranian visa, i took out my last cash left to buy a Setar🪕 a small-size Hangdrum🛸 a small Ocarina🪈 and a Bendir🥁, replacing the berber one i'd had since Algeria in winter, best place in North Africa I've wandered. Even if I'm here, I'm still hitchhiking, exploring, healing, camping, helping humans and the nature, carrying soft feelings, acting in a non - hierarchical way 🏞️
I speak intermediate turkish, french, spanish and I'm still a beginner at Farsi and Arabic, my 7th language.

Iran is safer than Europe, Afghanistan is safe and highly welcoming. So many long-term travellers are there, even without money. I can add you to related groups where they post and ask for advice everyday. Don't let someone with nearly no knowledge convince you they're not 🥱

📞📲 +39 389 10 75 666
📪 giovanni.tonurkey@gmail.com

Do you remember pandemic, when being a traveler was enough? No judgements, no expectations no comparisons with other few wandering souls, no short answers and emoji to cut conversations, no artificial intelligence and loooots of consideration? As I became a nomad that time, I'm trying to bring pandemic vibes back.

Are we seriously paying 23€ per year to read profiles and references written by AI? Members who register their home in some countries do not pay for couchsurfing. I also had a short time free of charge before changing my profile's place into an euro-paying country. Wrote something about it on "Why I'm on CS" ⤵️
I don't belong to italian nor western european culture, i belong to nowhere while I've been active part of the Near East and North Africa regions for 4 years already. Please don't have expectations and don't make me privileged because of my name, passport or spoken languages. Try to give this privilege to everyone out there. Refugees, expats, locals, pachamama, the nature.
We all need help. We are one.
See you in 5 🏕️

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

#KimseSokaktaKalmasın - don't leave anyone in the street. This is what they teach in Turkey, where more than 100 different people hosted me within 5 experiences 1.5 year long totally.

As long as I'll be available, I'll host or help you find a host.
It has become a lifestyle. Meet-up here, event there tonight, hangouts tomorrow, new host tomorrow night, new travel buddy one week later. And so on.

As a guest, especially for longer stays
and as a volunteer, i aim to be part and improve the local, expat and travelers' communities, helping my hosts and mates create new friendships rather than focus on a face-to-face guest-host sedentary experience. When possible, i host guests and events while travelling. So far: İzmir, Kutaisi, İsfahan, Isparta, Siwa, Sousse have been the cities i put more effort on this purpose.

[Writing a 1000 characters reference for everyone i meet] ✍

🥗[Being some hosts' first guest and other members' first meet-up/hangout, in order to start their CS activity and make their profiles reliable]

[Improving CSers' activity by writing an impacting profile for them. Creating new profiles - about 10 so far]🍰

🥁[Helping CSers to manage a busy inbox, choose their guests, hosts and meet-ups, making them feel safer by reading through second purpose offers]

My inbox looked pretty busy back in summer 2021. I couldn't believe that adding ten public trips would have created so many interactions and adventures. What i suggest those who send hospitality requests - create "public trips", in order to be invited to stay, meet-up or even travel together! I travelled just by accepting invitations for 1.5 year straight. Always be detailed and positive.

Two very straight suggestions
🌌keep your number of references lower than 50
🧺accept invitations by *trustworthy* hosts without references

💵🤑🫰🏽💴CouchSurfing💷💶🏧🧾

People registered in this region of the world still don't have to pay for Couchsurfing, I'm very happy with that. If you are travelling here, you paid but your monthly/yearly subscription is expiring soon, then i suggest cancelling it and change your home location into a country where they don't have to pay (you may also use a different Google account to access the community, preferably based around here).
If you do that and later you change your profile location to a country where they pay, you will immediately see the paywall, which means you'll have to pay to just keep editing your profile and reply messages. This happened to me after changing from Iran to Georgia.
I'm writing this as Couchsurfing updated their yearly subscription to 23$ and monthly to 6$ in January 2025 / 1403 Dey, even for users in Turkey who used to pay 5 down to 1$ (me) in the past 4 years. So I'm truly sure the community will become more and more spoiled by flirters and wealthy, mainstream travelers / hosts, along with AI used to write down profiles and references, making 2025 the most boring year especially in those world regions where users must pay.
Curiously, verification never changed the fee, making it cheap for some countries with high inflation (11$ in Turkey!).

We should be hospitable like in some regions, where you just walk and get invited by locals.

Interests

Changing my previous interests, after 4 months in the best city of the world back in 2020: İstanbul.

...and now i live in a coconut tree, it's good, it's good, it's good to be free...

Learning to survive and making plans day by day. Trying to host people and events wherever i go, bringing good vibed, smiley souls together.

I've been happier and more outgiving since i have started to live on a very tight budget, some weeks even without money. This is a way to be grateful for all the help i've got by wonderful souls I've met while travelling a small slice of mother earth by hitchhiking and public transports 🍃

2023 update: I eat everything but meat, however I don't eat small overpriced food anymore. Just food prepared to share. Recycling food and items is really important and I do it with full respect of the culture. For example - I would not suggest my host in Maghreb to go dumpster diving together neither I would easily do it as I was in Europe, rather raise awareness of food waste instead.

• festivals
• nightlife
• electronic music
• sociology
• hitchhiking
• adventure travel
• underground culture
• learning languages
• storytelling
• sufism
• jam sessions
• contact improvisation
• improvisation
• teaching languages
• recycling
• busking
• creating
• hip hop
• ecovillages
• community building
• workaway
• drum and bass
• turkish food
• experimental music
• hiphop
• tents
• ecstatic dance
• sustainable living
• healing arts
• dubstep
• empathy
• free hugs
• freestyle
• sleeping under the stars
• slow life
• work and travel
• cacao ceremonies
• bass music
• cultural exchanges
• cultural events
• persian food
• clean energy
• writing stories
• party planning
• environmental sustainability
• street performance
• no borders
• second hand
• arabic food
• conscious living

Music, Movies, and Books

➡Dancing in the streets
İt might be late to write i'm addicted to bass music (electronic music sub-genres) and oldschool hip hop, so let's discover every kind of genre. Please let me listen yours and take me to clubs, pubs, festivals.
Or just to dance in the streets, attend juggling shows and spread arts.
Please mind that when i mention "nightlife", i'm definitely the opposite kind of person than an annoying party-animal. In nightlife, i see creativity, harmony, love, people working, people connecting each other and changing their lives.

Books of contemporary history. I always forget my books somewhere, so if i don't, you will have one of them!

Movies make me sleep, i need to go out. Either we can watch them outside.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Turned no engine on since i've been around, cleaned-up one or more beaches on each sea and lake i've visited, volunteered 3 months in the main hostel of İzmir, helped Sudanese refugees practice their english near Cairo, been hosted by 10 different people within 13 days in the same city, Van in 2021. I hosted around 30 artists and travellers in Hormoz island, Iran, which is more than I've done in Turkey, Georgia, Egypt and Italy altogether 🛋️

As I don't believe in borders nor nationalities, i like to go close to some borders, hitchhike nearby, look at and feel like having been inside those countries.

You should ask me the other ones and make me live the next ones ▶

Teach, Learn, Share

One day, i'll write a long list of skills here. At the moment, i can teach you:
↪english and italian fluently, some french, spanish and turkish (improving them while travelling), some basics of persian and egyptian arabic;
↪how to start and run a simple but impacting travelling social media project - as a content creator
↪how to plan a cultural exchange or an event - as i used to be president of the only association at my former department for 3 years

➡and how to escape from standard studying/working life, that's what i've been doing since june 2020.

Learning: i remind of people for what skill or philosophy i've been learning from them, so feel free of teaching me some stuff :)

Can't actually remind the last chance of not sharing i had

What I Can Share with Hosts

Teaching 5 languages, cultures, music, freestyle dance, contact dance, ecstatic dance, go for food recycle, dumpster diving, volunteering for your project, garden, hostel, lodge, festival, websites. Just ask.

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Italy, Turkey