CURRENT MISSION

Being eternally surprised.

ABOUT ME

I am the byproduct of three very different cultures, and reckless reading.

PHILOSOPHY

You talk to a man you shouldn't talk to. You lose a word.
You don't talk to a man you should talk to. You lose a man.

...fatti non foste a viver come bruti
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

Even if it is not your fault, it is your responsibility.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Mostly hosting people. I believe travelling is mostly about meeting different sort of people, and hosting is the best way to travel, without even having to move.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Wonderful till now. I hope I'll be able to meet people from all around the world before I retire.

Interests

I love everything I have never experienced, and most of things I have already experienced. So, whether your idea of fun is a full night out dancing, or some quiet cooking and discussion about russian literature listening to Tchaikovsky, I'm with you.

• literature
• dancing
• cooking
• traveling
• socializing
• languages
• massage

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: All by Dario Argento, Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, David Lynch, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Tim Burton

Music: Beach Boys, Beethoven, Blues Brothers, De André, Dire Straits, Simon & Garfunkel, Verdi, Tchaikovsky. Generally sixties and classic music.

Very incomplete list of authors I love: Douglas Adams, Isabel Allende, Paul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Richard Bach, Charles Baudelaire, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Stefano Benni, Ambrose Bierce, Heinrich Boll, Ray Bradbury, Bertolt Brecht, Terry Brooks, Pearl Buck, Charles Bukowski, Mikhail Bulgakov, Robert Burns, Dino Buzzati, Andrea Camilleri, Albert Camus, Elias Canetti, Anton Cechov, Raymond Chandler, Gilbert Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Paolo Coelho, Joseph Conrad, Grazia Deledda, Philip Dick, Charles Dickens, Dostoevski, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Michael Ende, Gustav Flaubert, Alain Fournier, Kahlil Gibran, William Gibson, Goethe, Gogol, William Golding, Robert Heilein, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Kerbert, Hermann Hesse, Victor Hugo, Ibsen, Henry James, Jerome K. Jerome, James Joyce, Ismail Kadare, Franz Kafka, Yasunari Kawabata, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula Le Guin, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Lewis, Jack London, Longfellow, Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Herman Melville, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda, Edith Nesbit, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, Boris Pasternak, Daniel Pennac, Lugi Pirandello, Edgar Allan Poe, Terry Pratchett, Marcel Proust, Philip Pullman, Rabelais, Oliver Sacks, Salinger, Sartre, Sciascia, William Shakespeare, Georges Simenon, Lewis Sinclair, Aleksander Solzenicyn, John Steinbeck, Stendhal, Stevenson, Tolkien, Tolstoj, Turgeniev, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Marguerite Yourcenar, Banana Yoshimoto.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw the fall of communism in Albania. It's a bit like seeing the Gods upside down, and understanding that they have dirty underwear.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm interested in learning new languages, and improving the ones I already know. I love to cook for other people, and getting to learn new receipts.

I'm an avid reader. I'd gladly discuss classic literature.

Less popular subjects I'm interested in are microcontroller programming, game programming, cryptography and artificial intelligence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Albania, Italy, Switzerland

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