PHILOSOPHY

“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I created this profile to look for a couch in Berlin, as I stayed there for six months. I decided to go there without having a flat, that's why I was searching for a couch for the first week. I got the opportunity to meet wonderful people, who showed me the real city from the very first day and who introduced me to their friends while I was still alone (just with one friend) in Germany. I then travelled for one month using Couchsurfing and Trustroots and I think that once you start using these websites you just become addicted to them. Traveling this way is much better, sharing a tiny surface or a mattress on the floor after a night with strangers (who became after half an hour your friends), is much better than sleeping in a hotel or hostel. The great thing about it is keeping in touch with your hosts, put them up if they happen to be in your city. That's what happened to me and that's why I don't want to stop meeting people from all over the world.

Interests

I love live music, so I often go to concerts.
I like reading and writing and that's why I'm studying literature (and languages) in Venice. I love asking unusual questions and try to get the best out of a person. The thing I love the most about traveling is going back home with something new, which I learnt from the people I met.

• literature
• concerts
• reading
• music
• live music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Indie music. Gramatik, Metronomy, Alt-J, The Kooks, SBTRKT, Bonobo, Tycho. I love Nirvana and RHCP, but also reggae music. Italian unknown artists. Moderat, Tame Impala.

Thomas Mann. Nietzsche.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I travelled for one month through North Europe together with a friend of mine. We hitchhiked from Berlin to Copenhagen, to Malmo, to Stochkolm, to Oslo, to Bergen, to Amsterdam by plane and then still hitchhiking around the Netherlands and Germany. It was the best thing I have ever done. In the morning we just decided "OK, we'll go there today". What if we didn't manage to? No problem, we just stopped somewhere asking for a couch. We slept in an abandoned cinema in Breda, in a tiny matress on the floor after a Balcanic house party in Malmo, in a bed under the roof (....) half drunk in Hamburg. We were left in the middle of NOTHING hitchhiking from Oslo to Bergen and we almost had to sleep outside with -10. A supernice guy hosted us in the tv room of a kind of building where workers builiding a tunnel slept....

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy