First profile with 100+ references: Giovanni Tonucci https://couchsurfing.page.link/xy1GBztSe4SrMCnY9
It will have its annual membership paid once I'll be in Turkey again. Because of ip, Google Play doesn't allow me to pay at the moment.

This is a backup profile.
Update august-september 2024. Hitchhiking again across my favourite and most inspiring region in the world. Armenia now with middle-eastern hippies, Georgia Turkey Iraq and hopefully Iran then. I'm learning to play algerian berber Bendir drum while i use it for busking along with freestyle, ecstatic and contact dancing over electronic music in the streets 🥁 it is a new way to keep my nomadic life possible as well as spread love and light

My journey began 4 years ago while living in Istanbul, i volunteered in several places especially hostels and art spaces around Georgia, Iran, Egypt and Tunisia

I don't behave like italians nor western europeans, please don't have expectations. Lucky you, I'm oily, soft, light and cold according to Ayurveda. That means my arrival is unnoticed and my presence very harmonious, i don't invade personal spaces and i don't have a dominant attitude.

You can find the rest on my main profile ↖️

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

#KimseSokaktaKalmasın - don't leave anyone in the street.

This is what they teach in Turkey, where more than 90 different people hosted me within 14 months. You can read the list on CouchTurkey facebook group, that you should join to find last minute hosts there.

As long as I'll be available, I'll host or help you find a host.
It has become a lifestyle. Meet-up here, event there tonight, hangouts tomorrow, new host tomorrow night, new travel buddy one week later. And so on.

[Writing a 1000 characters reference for everyone i meet] ✍

🥗[Being some hosts' first guest and other members' first meet-up/hangout, in order to start their CS activity and make their profiles reliable]

[Improving CSers' activity by writing an impactant profile for them. Creating new profiles - about 10 so far]🍰

🥁[Helping CSers to manage a busy inbox, choose their guests, hosts and meet-ups, making them feel safer by reading through second purpose offers]

In summer 2021, my inbox looked pretty busy. I couldn't believe that adding ten public trips would have created so many interactions and adventures. What i advise those who send hospitality requests is: create "public trips", in order to be invited to stay, meet-up or even travel together! Always be detailed and positive.

Do you know anyone who started to do CouchSurfing in the last 2 years (me: September 2020) and has been so active so far? Please let me know.

We should be hospitable like in some countries, where you just walk and get invited by locals.

Interests

Actually changing my interests, after 4 months in the best city of the world: İstanbul.

...and now i live in a coconut tree, it's good, it's good, it's good to be free...

Learning to survive and making plans day by day. I try to host people and events wherever i go, bringing good vibed souls together, being in the backstage of everyone's happiness.

• electronic music
• hitchhiking
• sustainability
• creativity
• teaching languages
• hip hop
• workaway
• dubstep
• empathy
• community life
• chillout music
• contact dance
• bass music
• party planning
• eco living
• no borders
• solo traveler
• freestyle dance
• camping trips
• future bass
• hostel life

Music, Movies, and Books

➡Dancing and busking in the streets
İt might be late to write that i'm addicted to bass music (electronic sub-genres) and oldschool hip hop, so let's discover every kind of genre. Please let me listen yours and take me to clubs, pubs, festivals.
Or just to dance in the streets, attend juggling shows and spread arts.
Please mind that when i mention "nightlife", i'm definitely the opposite kind of person than an annoying stereotype of party-animal. In nightlife, i see creativity, harmony, people working, people connecting each other and changing their lives.

Books of contemporary history. I always forget my books somewhere, so if i don't, you will have one of them!

Movies make me sleep, i need to go out. Either we can watch them outside.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Turned no engine on since i've been around (except some days when both of my friends lost their driving license), cleaned-up one or more beaches on each sea and lake i've visited, volunteered 3 months in the main hostel of İzmir, been at some hippie gatherings *family connection*, danced on the bridges of Isfahan (we're gonna do it again in a free Iran!), been hosted by 10 different people within 13 days in the same city (Van).

You should ask me the other ones and make me live the next ones!

Teach, Learn, Share

One day, i'll write a long list of skills here. At the moment, i can teach you:
↪english, italian, some french, spanish and turkish, some basics of persian;
↪how to start and run a simple but impactant travelling social media project - as a content creator
↪how to plan a cultural exchange or an event - as i used to be president of the only association at my former department for 3 years

➡and how to escape from standard studying/working life, that's what i've been doing since june 2020.

Learning: i remind of people for what skill or philosophy i've been learning from them, so feel free of teaching me some stuff :)

Can't actually remind the last chance of not sharing i had

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, Georgia, Italy, Turkey