I'm a doctor who's very fond of travelling and getting in touch with other cultures: during my university years I spent some months in foreign hospitals (Zambia and Japan, so different but precious experiences), and I'd been in Bosnia and Poland for small helping-people projects. I suppose to be a very lucky man: everytime I got from others much more than I could give them.

PHILOSOPHY

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto" (i.e. "I am a human being, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.")

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd like to increase my knowledge of world and people who live in. For example, in previous years several friends I knew in Japan came to visit me, and I lead them around Northern Italy for sightseeing tours.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'd been hosted by some old friends during their studies abroad; I also lead my foreign friends for sightseeing tours during their visits to Italy. About CS: you can read references, I didn't pay anybody for good comments ;-)

Interests

- I follow as educator a group of teenagers in my parish (assisting them in their growing-up troubles and promoting with them some charity initiatives)
- cinematography
- hiking

• arts
• traveling
• hiking
• teaching
• history
• medicine
• tourism
• tours
• sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm an omnivorous animal: you can find on my bookcase both unconventional writers like Chuck Palahniuk and masters like Dostoevskij. The same for cinema: I admire Kieslowski, Bergman, Wes Anderson... but I take great fun watching B-movies with friends ;-)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I attended high school, I met Patch Adams and I joined a group a volunteers that used clownerie to confort hospitalized children. As I’ve already written above, I got from others much more than I could give them

What I Can Share with Hosts

If I were rich, I would be a tourist guide for free :-) I really like sightseeing and sharing my passion for art, history and different cultures with people

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan

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