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I'm Bella, I'm from Russia and currently live in Milan.

I work as an interpreter, also I'm a freelance journalist and write for different magazines as Elle and Geo. Used to be a anchorwomen at local TV in Milan and collaborated with RAI and Mediaset TV channels. Check my instagram Cloudwatcher_girl to get an idea about my life. Traveling for me is not an option for vacations twice a year, for me it's modus vivendi. I travel pretty much for work, to visit my friends and family. As usual I don't use CS for staying/sleeping, all my experiences (except two cases) were very nice, I met a lot of new people. Now I'm more interested to meet locals, have a walk/go to run/dance/try some special local activity. If u are in let me know ;)

Recently I discovered many tiny places in Italy, I can take u to many secret places in Venice, Sicily and Lombardy. I can take u to hidden places in Milan, to some nice galleries and artist places, show u the best gelato in the city and help u to find real Sicilian arancini and cannoli (they exist even in Milan!).

PHILOSOPHY “EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT” Simple rules of my life:

1. don't exist impossible things

2. trust to strangers

3. just do it!

4. practice makes perfect

5. don’t hesitate to seem childish in ur curiosity

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING meet, help, stay in touch, open new places.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE my couches are not just from this community.

ok, 10 days i was Noghay-English translator between my daddy and my Greek friend, when she came to Caucasus in 2008.

Nice girl Claudia from Puglia picked me up from the street at night in Rome 2007. before she saw me just one time when i ordered some pizza in one restraunt.

Awesome Stelios from Chania (Creta) showed me best sea-food place in his town in 2008.

Sicilian Nicola hosted me when i mixed up my train in Rome in 2011.

I came to Caucasus with my Italian journalist friends to help them with information for their book in December 2010.

Sweet Davide told me his own fairy-tales at night in Milano in September 2010.

I spent 3 hours in queue to buy Moscow-Bejing tickets for two Norwegians in 2009...

Amazing Sara in Tehran became my personal angel while I traveled in Iran 🇮🇷.

a lot of stories how to became friends with people. Visited Countries Map from TravelBlog

Interests

social issues.

• books
• theater
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• knitting
• journalism
• languages
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

my films - La strada, La vita e' bella, Io ballo da sola, Bitter moon, Across the Universe, Blueberry nights, Invisible children, Almodovar, Bitter moon, Japanese anime.
i translated films of Paolo Sorrentino "Il Divo" and "L'Amico di famiglia" for Russian broadcasting. Also for 3rd "EcoCup" festival of ecological films i translated "Solar taxi" about world-trip by car with solar energy.

my books - Lermontov. his novel "Hero of our time" gave nice idea to my granfa to call me Bella as one of the heroes of this book.
Sergey Dovlatov - i wanna be journalist of his level
Il'f and Petrov - the best writers of Russia! their books make me crazy
Bernard Show - excellent humor and deep thoughts.
Alexander Block - his poetry lives inside me.
Arundрati Roy - The God of Small Things,
Xiaolo Guo - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Ursula Le Gouin
Michael Cunningham - A home at the end of the world
Salman Rushdi and fairy-tales of different countries

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

For example 6000 km in 18 days in hitchhiking from Moscow to Baikal lake.

Marathon finisher in Paris 2017 (yeah I did 42 km 195 m!)

Founder of cool non-profit summer school in rural zones of Northern Caucasus. Instagram: balapanlar.

I would never believe but I learned to snowboard but I do it and really enjoy it🏂

Went around Iceland 🇮🇸 for 1400 km alone by autostop

Teach, Learn, Share

with me u can:
discover non-touristical Moscow,
cook some traditional Caucasian speciality,
flirt with strangers,
knit warm socks for Russian winter,
go to the theater for free,
see old and rare films,
talk in Italian and Noghay,
be a clown for children in orphanages.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Russian Federation

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