Hi, I'm Marco, I'm a physical therapist living in Zurich, Switzerland, but I am originally from Pavia, a city nearby Milano. I love doing sports of all kind, particularly the one that connects me with nature (hiking, cycling, skiing, surfing and so on).
I'm also a musician in my free time, I play guitar, ukulele, cavaquinho,pandeiro, didgeridoo and armonica, and I love various genres of music.

I love to meet travellers and open-minded locals, that want to share some time together! If you're one of them, I'm looking forward to meet you 😁

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to travel and meet locals from each country I visit, this way I can learn new languages by socialising and sharing experiences with other people.
In exchange I can do whatever job related to cleaning, maintenance, or whatever would be necessary to give something back my host ❤️.
I could even provide physical therapy assessments/treatments if required, or just share a good meal and a good conversation 😊

Interests

I play the guitar from when I was 12 years old, I started with classical, then moving into electrical, acoustic (6 and 12 strings) and spanish/flamenco. I also learned how to play didgeridoo and harmonica, and I took some lessons for the cavaquinho, and pandeiro, Brasilian instruments for samba. I'm just passioned about any kind of musical instrument 🤣 and I love music from Latin America, and lately also African vibes.

I've praticed a lot of sports in my life, from soccer, basketball, tennis, table tennis to surf, snowboard, crosscountry skiing, hiking, mountain biking, kick boxing, kung fu and tai chi, capoeira, calisthenics and free body work out. At the moment I just train by myself, with a mix of different disciplines.

• capoeira
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• surfing
• snowboarding
• sports
• languages
• kung fu
• nutrition
• calisthenics

Music, Movies, and Books

My interests in music are always evolving, mostly according to new suggestions I receive from travellers around the world (travelling with music is the best! 🤩).
For instance, I listen to John butler trio, xavier rudd (AU) Fat freddy's drop (NZ), El twanguero (ESP), Tryo (FR), Criolo (BRZ), Natiruts (BRZ), Gogol bordello (US-UC), Stromae (BE), Mayra Andrade (capo verde) Manu chao (ESP-FR).
I do include also classical rock artists like pink floyd, muse, queen, jamiroquai, rage against the machine, audioslave ecc... That's basically my adolescence 🤣
I feel quite openminded in relation to music, recently (2023) I fell in love with Afrobeats music, with artists like Burna boy, Rema, Oxlade, Omah lay, L.A.X etc... That's how I started to love dancing as well 🕺

About movies, I love cinema as an art and a way to tell stories. My favourite directors are Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Denis Villeneuve and Robert Eggers (the list goes on...).
My favourite shows/movie series are The lord of the rings, the Batman saga (christopher nolan), Breaking bad, The office, The witcher, The last of us (and so on...).
I also love some random movies/documentaries like The big short, Trainspotting, The beach, Troy, Seven years in tibet, eat pray love, and other classics.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I did the camino of Santiago (via francès), around 900 km by walk with a backpack, to Finisterre and passing by Muxia: one of the most important, deep and memorable experience of my life!

I also took a big decision back in the year 2023 by taking a sabbatical gap year and travelling around south America. For some people, it is something incredible I guess... Leaving your job, friends and family to take some time for you and your dream! to me it's just an experience that everyone should do, at least once in life!!!!

Also, because of that decision, I unexpectedly ended up in Switzerland 🤣 but that's another story, I would for sure share with you in person! 😜

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share my professionality as a physical therapist, all my knowledges about long distance hikes (which I loooove to do 😜), sports equipment and sports prevention. Or if you wanna practice languages I also speak, I would love to help!! Especially with Brazilian Portuguese, that's my favorite one 😍

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my knowledge about music, instruments, sports and physiotherapy in general. also I can teach some italian or at least practice other languages that I know.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain