Don’t get us started on music, because we won’t shut up for quite a while😅 Singing the Hotel California guitar solo with our voices kind of brought us together🤪🤭 and Bob Marley is our sunny music ☀️ Laura: Daily life playlist: Eloise, PJ Morton, Sade, Jacob Collier, Lizzy McAlpine Energy playlist: Michael Jackson; Nirvana; Metallica Portuguese playlist: MARO; SlowJ; Tom Jobim; Tim Maia Classical playlist: Rachmaninoff; Debussy; Chopin Jazz Playlist: Miles Davis; Lee Ritenour; Snarky Puppy Mattia’s favourite: System of a Down, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Linkin Park, Radiohead Italiani: Quercia, De André, Rino Gaetano, Battisti, Lucio Dalla, Vasco Rossi Movies and books Mattia: would like to read history, it’s only occasional unfortunately; and Laura criticises me for my scarce cinema knowledge Laura: Mattia is lying, I get surprised sometimes with his little but targeted cinema knowledge. I like to read fiction and non fiction books at the same time; this can be traveling books with science or philosophy books ;)

Laura: Travelled only with my backpack for 7 months Hitchhiked from Italy to Portugal alone Visited the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China Mattia: Bike trips in the Alps, Via Francigena, Sardegna and the Balkans Both left home at 19 to go live abroad by ourselves

Everything we learned and experienced while travelling is an open book :)) We love talking about music, our worldviews and philosophies!

We like to be the best guests possible, understanding how the hosts want to interact with us. In general, we’re always open for conversations of all types, bringing fun stories in the house! We can talk about our own countries and teach a bit of our languages! If there’s a guitar, keyboard (or drums!!🥹) we can make music with you! We often carry harmonicas with us! We’re tidy and always clean up after ourselves, so we can offer a “stress-free” couch stay :)) We can also cook if needed, and help with any house chore that is needed, and we’re not picky at all. We’re also fine with not spending a lot of time together.

Music is a deeply shared passion. Laura “learned to play the piano since I was as little as 10 years old, and later, the guitar. I also love to sing, especially in group (I sing in two different choirs and on a band).” Mattia plays the drums “since I was 8, and recently the guitar (‘cause when you leave home you cannot bring a drum set with you, but you can start playing the guitar!) Hiking, biking, walking, spending time outdoors, hanging around with friends are also activities that fulfil our hearts of happy memories, which we also hope to get the chance to form with you :) Our relationship is also very much grounded in our values and desire to create a good impact in the world. 🇵🇸🌱 We are also very into banning English language between us sometimes and try to only speak Spanish, Italian or Portuguese. One day we’ll be fluent in all these hopefully!! And we are very into making lists… about everything. “Best things ever” and “Quotes” or “our philosophies”, among many more 🤓 we have a shared book full of them ehehe