My name is Alessandro and I come from a peculiar tiny town in the south of Italy which is also known as "the White Town". I spent the last years studying civil and environmental engineering between Torino, Istanbul and Charlottesville (USA) and now, finally, I am a licensed engineer! (call me Sir, please)
I work and live in London. This country is so different from Italy but it is still interesting to be here for a while, trying to understand what British people do apart from working, going to gym and populating pubs.

I love to read and write, literature is much more than a hobby for me. I play the guitar and now I mess around with electronic instruments and software.

I visited many many countries and I believe that the best has yet to come!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm always looking for new people to meet! I like to use CS to meet different persons who can help me in discover the city or want just to have a beer with me and my friends

Interests

I am a musician, whatever that means. I like all the good music: no matter if pop, jazz, drum n bass, if they put love in it then i like it!

Since I was at highschool I did some voluntary activities: volunteering at the municipal kennels and politic activism.

I like doing sports and during my life I made several kinds of like judo, soccer, volleyball; right now I swim quite a lot.

I also like really much playing chess (when I was at highschool my level was pretty good). Finally, I am one of the founder of the blog failcaffe.it where a bunch of boys and girls write about culture, lifestyle, politics.

• culture
• literature
• cooking
• beer
• politics
• chess
• blogging
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• cycling
• sports
• soccer
• volleyball
• engineering
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Simone Weil, J L Borges, G Pontiggia, Erofeev, Bolano, Cortazar
Movies: Terrence Malick, Raul Ruiz, Andrej Tarkovskij, Paolo Sorrentino
Music: Bill Evans, Paolo Conte, Baba Zula

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Failcaffe.it is one of the most amusing experience I've had: we create a community of people to deal and write about culture, politics and other issues. We became an acknowledged blog, able to publish also on the well known online newspaper Linkiesta.it

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give guitar and music lessons!
I am a good cook, so if you would like to learn how to prepare some italian meal I am your man :)
I am quite good at solving computer problems

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States