CURRENT MISSION

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I wish I could share my house with somebody, but for the moment it will be quite difficult ad I will travel a lot for business. Nevertheless, if you are interested in staying at me, write me and I tell you if I can host you or if I'm abroad. Meanwhile, I will read forums in order to check if I can do something for people travelling close to me.

Before knowing CS, I created a forum with some friends from Italy and Switzerland and we are going on with somebody very similar to CS. I think there could be a contact between these experiences.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed many times, even if I discovered this word and site only in April 2007. I went all over Great Britain, visiting friends and relatives of friends of mine and even a customer of my father! Last summer I want to Portugal, visiting a friend known because I sold him through the net some magazines. I hosted for some weeks a Spanish friend who wanted to visit Italy. These are only some samples of my couchsurfing abroad or with foreign people; in Italy I did it many times!
Last autumn I opened a forum in order to let people meet. The spirit is quite similar to couchsurfing. In 6 months I met some 50 people from Italy and Switzerland, and invited some of them at my house.
And more...

Interests

I like to stay with other people and do anythig than give the opportunity to know each other. I think age is only something on documents and no more. I like to stay with children (I have 8 nephews) and with elderly and anybody whose age is inside this range.
Then I like to stay outdoor. I don't know exact definition neither in Italian (my own language), so I try to explain. I like nature and any activity that let me observe it. Walking, riding, snorkeling, swimming, flying (well, my paraglider licence now is expired!) and anything more. But all of them in a not-competitive way. And even in a simple way, with no extreme technics and so on. I like simple things.
I can stay alone as well: in such cases I like motor racing (watch and read about, I have only driven a kart a couple of times) and computers, but this only when I have nothing to do with anybody else.

• animals
• walking
• flying
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• snorkeling
• paragliding
• swimming
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

I like reading about history, both about famous and unfamous events and situation. I like music, both classical and pop/rock. I don't like rap. I listen to the radio, so I don't know singers, expecially foreign one, because radio plays songs without announcing them.
Movies: I like commedy, movies about historical events and cartoons.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I used to fly with paraglider, now I can't because the licence is expired and I have no more time for flying. But if you want, I can arrange a flight with somebody licensed for such things (unfortunately only paying, but of course not me!).
I walked on Camino de Santiago in Spain, where I learnt many things about me and about other people. In few words: people is much simpler then we usually think!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach the contact with nature: have you ever slept at Stars Hotel? Free of charge, no reservation needed, it provides a nice bed with a grass carpet (and sometimes some rocks), some music provided by crickets, nightingales or some more animal, accordig to location and season (once even a wild pig!), with moon and/or stars watching over you... maybe even an unwanted shower...
I have a very nice place half an hour walking from my house door for this.
Nothing academic (I wish, but I can't), but I'm talking about sensations.
Learn? Anything interesting I find on my way. Maybe even something so strange than I can't imagine now.
Share? Sometimes it's not possible to sleep at Stars Hotel. For such cases I have a Maggiolina, a tent for 2 persons to be mounted on the roof of my car. I have never tried (I bought recently), but I think it should be a great idea for wondfering somewhere in Italy and/or Europe!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy

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