CURRENT MISSION

life should be so active and progressive as to be a journey

ABOUT ME

We are a couple, Federica and Nicola. We live together since 3 years. Our house is a mess but hopefully friends who pass by don't care much.
We like to walk and travel and often we do the two things together.
We love cinema, music, literature, theatre.
Don't own a TV in our house.

PHILOSOPHY

Werner Herzog once said "Travel on foot is a virtue. Turism is sin". We try to walk as much as we can.

We are vegetarians, but not integralists. We call it "antropological vegetarians". We generally do not eat meat and fish, but we do sometimes when we are abroad and tasting local food is part of the traveling experience. This is not a cop-out in our opinion, it's just about keep moving.
We believe that being vegetarian is a very personal choice and we'll never try to convince you about how horrible is that piece of rib you're going to eat, so please leave us alone with the "man as a omnivore animal" story, thanks.

In the end, beauty will save us all.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We use to host friends in our house quite often. We would be glad to have hosts from around the world too.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have our profile on CS since last year but haven't surfed or hosted a lot since then for several reason too long to write on here.
However, in the last ten years we've had lots of "unofficial" hosting at people's houses during our travels: not registered anywhere through references and virtual friendships but deep experiences nonetheless. We remember each name and smile.

We liked CS much more when it was a truly no-profit and open source thing.

We opened a BeWelcome profile (www.bewelcome.org - same nick) and we'are using it at the same time with CS. We'll see how things are going to change on CS now that it turned to be a for-profit organization and then decide whether to definetely move on BW for surfing and hosting. Stay tuned.

Interessen

Cinema, Literature, Theatre, Music, Role Playing, Bike, Trekking, Friends, Cooking...

We like to go out in the evening for a beer with friends, or going to see an independent movie in the last tiny essai cinema in town. We often go to concerts around and theatre shows (Federica attends theatre a lot for working reasons as well...).

We also like to go for the week end in Fanano, a little village in the mountains around here, which is the place where Federica grew up and is not far from our house. She goes pick up blueberries and Nicola goes mountain biking.

• animals
• fish
• literature
• beauty
• concerts
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• vegetarian
• running
• walking
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• surfing
• beaches
• mountains

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Books:
Il Trono Di Legno by Carlo Sgorlon
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Enrico 4 by Pirandello
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
I Malavoglia by Verga
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Le Piccole Virtù by Natalia Ginzburg
Traité du funambulisme by Philippe Petit
...
Music: Pearl Jam, Patty Smith, PJ Harvey, Sixteen Horse Power, Sufjan Stevens, Jazz and Popolar music (Eastern Europe mainly), Vocal Experiments (Meredith Monk, Tanya Tagaq...) and so on...

Movies: Ozu, Herzog, Bergman, Kurosawa, Edward Yang...

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Walking a 100 km distance route in Sardegna sleeping for 10 nights under the stars on the beach...
Walking a long distance path in Basilicata without no route signed, just asking local people the route every day, getting lost, being hosted, being helped, just being..

Running almost 2.000 km on our 1985 Vespa from Modena to Rome...

Lehren, lernen, teilen

MMh, let's see.
Federica: I can teach you some good vegetarian receipts. I also have some basic knowledge of macrobiotic kitchen. Of course, theatre lessons are included in the menu :)

Nicola: can teach you how to disassemble and reassemble a bike. You never know which needings you can encounter in your life.

Depending on our time in that period, we can show you around the city and neighboourhoods. We can go hiking in the mountains or just take a short walk and relax in a mountain hut.

Federica works in a theatre in Bologna, so she knows the city quite well and of course, you can attend some of her artistic programs and festivals, if something is going on when you come over.
Nicola can bring you along to some role playing game, if you like the type of entertainment.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Czech Republic, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Italy, United States