Curious and ironic, I like to meet new people and new cultures: as food, life is good if made of different ingredients and with spices added.

I study and live in Venice and this is a city I like: multicultural and with character at the same time, crazy to live in but a beauty for sure. I take part every year as a volunteer in a literary festival that hosts authors from all over the world and makes writers of completely different cultures speak together - this is something I like a lot.

I like travelling by foot or by train, that makes me realize the distance I travel and meet locals as well. I travelled by foot with my backpack in Spain and in Italy. I lived some time in Petersburg, I saw the sun never set, drank a lot of tea and danced at a concert under the rain. I lived some time in Georgia in Tbilisi and fell in love with its colors and eclectic atmosphere and crazy sweet people. From the eastern world I learned to worry less: things will always work out somehow.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Slowly dies he who becomes a slave to habit, repeating every day the same routines, who doesn’t change brands, who doesn’t risk to wear a new color, and doesn’t speak to who he doesn’t know.

Slowly dies he who doesn’t travel, who doesn’t read, who doesn’t listen to music, who doesn’t find grace within himself

Interests

• festivals
• kayaking
• camping
• cinema
• good food
• foreign cultures
• long distance hiking
• good books

Music, Movies, and Books

Hitchcock, Lynch, Truffaut, Fellini, Kieslowsky, Tarantino, Coen, Almodovar

Radiohead, Nico, Alt-j, Paolo Conte, The Smiths, Nina Simone, Fleet Foxes

Italo Calvino, Wislawa Szymborska, Fernando Pessoa, Natalia Ginzburg, Nina Cassian

What I Can Share with Hosts

Big smile, chattering, practicing Italian language, and if you want even some good italian/georgian cooking!

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iran, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Italy, Russian Federation