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Overview

  • 27 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Catalan, Valencian, English, French, Italian, Spanish; learning Turkish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • Brand communication / Gastronomy
  • BA in Advertising / Master's in Food Anthropology
  • From Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

From Barcelona, currently 33.
Favorite things in life: wind and breakfast.

I love spending quality time with people, either traveling and experiencing new things or just trying to solve the main world problems while sipping coffee and tea.

I am super highly interested in food anthropology / sociology; psychology, photography and nature; and in any kind of creative thinking expression.

Learning languages and awkward expressions is also one of my most enjoyed skills.

"La libertad es tomarse el café donde uno quiere"
"If it makes you happy, do it"
"Savoir, penser, rêver. Tout est là"
"Vivere è cominciare. Sempre, ad ogni istante"
"Her yokuşun bir inişi vardır"

:)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am totally aware it sounds like a huge cliché, but I just think traveling shouldn't be just moving around, from A to B, taking selfies and eating sort of "local food for tourists". I specially love to travel to places where I can chat and discuss with people, meet the local bar owner and talk with the bakery / little shops attendants.

I don't want to see how places look, I need to know how places feel and live. How they evolved. That is why Couchsurfing seems like the perfect way of discovering places around the world by really living them and not just seeing the play from the outside.

WARNING: I love to see how cities/villages start their morning routine (how coffee places open, bakeries start producing bread, and how sun rises on any place with beach / sea), so I tend to wake up super early one morning and scape to walk around. But I promise to return at a decent hour with something good for breakfast :)

Interests

Cooking, eating. Understanding why we cook/eat what we cook/eat.
Walking, running, jumping, dancing, cycling,. (Should say swimming is no my real thingy.)
Being silent in exhibitions. Shouting in demonstrations.

Just cannot stand commonplaces, cliches, mediocrity, resignation, predictability, inertia and/or disenchantment.

  • design
  • recipes
  • coffee
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • languages
  • sociology
  • beaches
  • nature
  • tea
  • gastronomy
  • local culture
  • icecream
  • wind
  • psycology
  • local cuisine

Music, Movies, and Books

I love books. I just buy too many. They are conquering my home. Help!
I like movie sagas The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Batman (Nolan)... When I was a child my favorite movie was The Fifth Element, and I guess I haven't replaced it...
I like movies with realistic dialogues.
I love and hate Netflix. We will probably break up but still missing each other for a while.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being in the Tayrona park (Colombia) enjoying natural beaches and forests.
Getting to Munich in the middle of Oktoberfest without any accommodation booked in advanced.
The rest of the list is pretty illegal. Let's discuss about it face to face...

Teach, Learn, Share

I cook whatever is needed to be cooked (challenges are welcome).
I dance whatever is needed to be danced (challenges and patience also welcome).

I fluently speak 3 languages and make my super best at 2 more. I will surely find weird expressions to teach you.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my past experiences from other trips, wide knowledge about Catania or Barcelona, and a random and always positive set of mind :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Spain

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