I'm a young fellow who spends most of his year studying in La Sapienza, in Rome. I'm studying Italian Modern Literature, I love reading and writing all kind of stuff. My deepest dream is to publish a book someday. Just that. Going in a library and hold in my hands a book, to look down on its cover and to see there big and clear printed: FEDERICO CASTI.

However, especially on summer, I travel. It’s always been like that, but I’ve really begun having fun since I started hitch-hiking and sleeping around on beaches and parks or in stations. I just love trusting on strangers and relying on them, always. It gives me hope for humanity, I guess, and makes me feel we all are connected, somehow. Maybe I’m making bad publicity to myself, looking like some freaky kind of homeless hippie, but that’s who I am. Not the homeless hippie part, of course. All the rest.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think that one of the best pleasure in life comes from meeting new people. That's why I often travel alone, that's why I love hitch-hiking. It's amazing to realize that you can simply trust on a stranger giving you a ride or giving you a bed, even if just for a couple of hours or for a whole night. Traveling like this, using Couchsurfing and hitch-hiking, for me it's the best way of meeting new people: two different life meet and merge, and from that moment on they are never gonna be the same.

Interests

• writing
• poetry
• running
• walking
• movies
• reading
• music
• hiking
• camping
• swimming
• history
• languages
• philosophy
• art
• travelling
• nature
• trekking
• ciclyng

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Pink Floyd, Rory Gallagher, David Bowie, Yes, Neil Young, Queen, Rolling Stones, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Emerson, Lake Palmer, Mozart, and generally rock and especially rock progressive.

Movies: We all loved each other so much, Into the Wild, Trainspotting, Requiem for a dream, Two women, Memento, Jurassic Park, Once upon a time in America, Schindler's list, Titanic, Dead Poets Society, The Wave, It's a wonderful life, Vertigo, Lion, Salaam Bombay.

Books: Midnight's children, The White Tiger, Nothing and Amen, A Man, The Idiot, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, It, The Pillars of the Earth, Norwegian Wood, La Luna e i Falò, Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de Via Merulana, La Storia, L'Isola di Arturo, The Betrothed, Dante, Petrarca, Leopardi and I could really go on for looong time.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

For the summer 2017 I had this plan: to travel for three months along the Balkan coast, hitch-hiking, all alone, coming back home in time for my graduation. Then I decided to go on traveling for one year, after Greece, after Turkey, until Asia, until India. I did come back home for my graduation, but then I bought a bicycle and went all the way to India like that. It was amazing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my world, and my world is made of what I love. And I love a lot of simply things.
I'm a real walker: I could walk all day long, and when I travel I usually do it. My feet are not that grateful to me.
I love cooking, and tasting something new. I love learning to cook food from all over the world.
I love being in contact with nature: just laying on the sand, being in front of a lake, being surrounded by hills, going over a mountain, swimming in the sea, crossing a forest and stuff like that.
I love beer, but also wine. Smoking, but not so much: I just enjoy the right cigarette at the right moment - but enjoy weed very much. If I’m drunk, anyway, that is probably the right moment for smoking.
I love reading and spending my time with a book; but sometimes it's simply time for a movie. I can wake up one day wishing to read a Leopardian poem; another day I'll be up to hear a Mozart's symphony.
I love studying, and learning a lot of new stuff. I think man is born to know new things:

“Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.”

That’s Dante, an Italian poet, and it means: "Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge".
I love hearing stories, and diving into a new life. This is quite the main reason that made me join Couchsurfing: so if you host me, or I will host you, well, we'll have to talk and getting to know each other.
I love being lonely, walking lonely, and thinking and writing and reading and all the stuff I love doing, lonely; but I also love sharing it all with my friends; or, even better, with a stranger. I love talking to strangers. Haven’t still said that?

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Croatia, France, Greece, India, Iran, Malta, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Italy