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  • 88 references 52 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified), Russian
  • 27, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Translator, Interpreter, Language teacher
  • Master of Arts in Languages, cultures and linguistics @Sa...
  • From Rome, Rome, Italy
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About Me

ОСТОРОЖНО!

Most of the times I receive so many requests even for the same day: I wish to host you all, but
with work, life, and study balance it seems very difficult.
Thanks for understanding.

LGBTQ+ friendly.

### NO talks about
POLITICS/RELIGION in my house.

About me ••••••••••••

I am finding my tribe.
I was born and raised in a small and unpopular city called Rome, in Italy. After finishing linguistic high-school I took my first trip around Europe.

I started working in Barcelona as a volunteer and pub-crawler, then I moved to reception work. In Spain I mastered spanish language.

I travelled for the first time in the middle-east when I was 19 to visit my girlfriend.

I visited eastern Europe and northern Europe, and I hitchhiked (autostop) for the first time from Amsterdam to Berlin because I lost a bet with my couchsurfing host. It took me 15 hours and I met someone to go with me on the way, and I absolutely loved it.
So I decided to make hitchhiking my life philosophy and I made it all the way from Lisbon in Portugal, to Agadir in Morocco, meeting very interesting people and discovering that the world is not a horrible-dangerous place as the popular culture wants you to believe.

I moved back to Rome and I joined Languages course at University, before going all the way to Thailand, and then Australia, with a Working Holiday Visa. I hitchhiked cars, vans, even a private yacht to Fraser Island on my birthday (Dec 10th, I turned 21), I sat under the stars and travelled to the jungles of the north, and the deep desert to the west, and I worked in hostels to fund everything.

A friend from Argentina visited me in Australia and so I decided to pay back the favour and I went to Argentina. I spent 2 months mostly in Buenos Aires and Rosario. This friend bought tickets for the FIFA world cup (football) in Russia, and wanted to go together. So I went back to visit my family in Italy after 10 months away, completing my FIRST WORLD TOUR at age 21!!!

I stayed a few weeks and left to Russia. From St. Petersburg we catched trains, blablacars, used couchsurfing, and went to Moscow, Kazan, and then Soči, on a train that took 24 hours (can you imagine how long is 24 hours on a train?) From Soči we took an insane trip of 30 hours in a minivan drove by a crazy guy who never slept through the mountains of Vladikavkaz, and on to Tbilisi in Georgia. My friend left to Argentina, and two people we met on the road trip became really good friends and remained with me.

I decided to visit Azerbaijan together with my new friends . There we met with a person who was driving to Mardin, Turkey. So after spending a month and a half in the Caucas region, I catched a ride with him to south-east of Turkey and then took night buses and slept in train stations until Istanbul, one of the most beautiful and warm cities I've experienced. I went back to Italy for a while, and then moved to London. I spent a month there, but I didn't like it too much -not enough sun, sorry-.

Then I went back again to the middle east and I spent quiet a while in Tel Aviv and Nablus, meeting very interesting characters, but after all I wanted to spend more time with family and so I moved permanently to Italy, Rome, for a couple of years, also to finish my Bachelor in languages.

During the Pandemic, I was able to go to Hungary for the third time to visit a good friend,
to Scotland and spent a really great time with two of my previous guests in Edinbourgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Loch Ness. Then to Spain where I moved with Blablacar from Madrid to Valencia to Alicante and back .

I got my bachelor's degree on September 2021 and I took all my stuff and left to Barcelona.
I lived in El Born, in the city center for 4 months and worked in an underground bar in El Raval before moving to a full flat in Castelldefels, a beach town 20km from Barcelona and then to Sitges, a wonderful beach town on the Spanish coast.

In summer, I went for a short trip to Rome, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Budapest to see dr. Jordan Peterson live and it was a great experience.

In the winter 2022, I had an opportunity to work remotely, and be a digital nomad. That's when I visited Poland, I entered Ukraine and Belarus during the war, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. I experienced for the first time -14°. F**king cold.

In may 2024 I could explore the incredible China and meet the wonderful locals.

In october 2024 I will start my adventure in South America.

- I am looking forward to transform my life experiences into books, and tell stories from the road, and philosophical points of views -®

Now I am studying my Master's degree in Linguistic, cultural and translation sciences at SAPIENZA University of Rome, and living in the area of SAN LORENZO.

Come visit.

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PHILOSOPHY

Make the road by walking

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people and get and give some inspiration !

Interests

  • photography
  • film making
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • walking
  • philosophy
  • hitchhiking
  • travel
  • dance
  • studying
  • netflix
  • breakdance
  • videomaking
  • experimenting

Music, Movies, and Books

7 Samurai

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

20.000 km by autostop

Teach, Learn, Share

• your smile is your passport to the world ;
• you have to go where you are not known and not understood
• we can only look back and connect the dots

What I Can Share with Hosts

I CAN HOST YOU IN ROME•ITALY

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Italy, Spain

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