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This hosting with couchsurfing is a verbatim account of the oddities that have happened to me in meeting people through the international platform that connects travelers and hosts willing to host. I specify that I use it mostly to meet someone from the place I am visiting, without sleeping over. I have not hosted anyone for some time now, but who knows in the future. It can be a means to meet interesting people, for better or worse. In the post covid period the site has had an inexorable slump, I hope it will recover.

Please note the audio is in Italian.

Click below to listen to the episode.

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If you would like to listen to more episodes of the traveling oddities podcast, this is the page with all the ones published so far.

Highlighted is the Ridracoli Dam, present within the Casentino Forest Park is an ideal destination if you are hosting someone who likes nature. But the Classe pine forest where I took the following photo is also fine.

The ‘article where, in writing, I recount what was present in the podcast episode: hosting with couchsurfing

In the following link you can find the ‘article already written about this experience:

Hosting with couchsurfing

In particular I tell anecdotes concerning:

• friends of the Filipino
• the Polish hitchhikers
• the enthusiastic Swiss
• the selfie in San Marino
• Russia’s dog

In other articles, there are accounts of some of the times I have been hosted. In particular, the most memorable was the one in Lithuania: Visiting Vilnius each time new emotions

But I have also met people in this way in Australia, Poland, Finland, Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Serbia and even Italy.

Trips taken, travel stories divided by continent

Countries visited in my travel stories

Anecdotes, divided by type in travel narratives

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Fabio Viroli

Ho sempre avuto tante passioni, ma da sempre più o meno latenti, le principali sono viaggiare e scrivere. Tra le altre cose ho una laurea in psicologia; ho fatto per più di 30 anni l’allenatore di basket; leggo tanti libri; sono stato molto appassionato di sport e di musica rock; e faccio improvvisazione teatrale. IL mio primo romanzo, che non parla di viaggi, si chiama LE TUE GAMBE SONO BELLE COME LE TAGLIATELLE

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