CouchSurfing

Anyone heard about CS or CouchSurfing community? An amazing initiative round the world! A community of crazy travel addicts (with some unpleasant exceptions as can happen with all human beings) that travel on a low budget willing to share their own culture and travel experiences.

We had two Belorussian girls who helped Marco treat his cold with onion juice. A Korean exchange student in Denmark who was travelling by bike from North to South of Italy and back to Denmark through Croatia. Currently we are hosting a Korean student (Jin) who took a year off from his university to travel around the world with an initial budget of $2000, hitchhiking and couchsurfing from Korea through China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Turkey etc. till Europe.  Who will tell that he is not crazy?

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Biking in the nature

Free Sunday and another beautiful combination of train and biking in the nature. Furnishing the house force us to have budget travelling, but I just adoOore it! This Sunday trip costed us around 20 euro per person, having the sandwiches ready from home. A beautiful day of sport, sun, lake and nature!!!

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Cinque Terre

Sunday we decided to escape from the city routine to Cinque Terre (Five Lands). A beautiful place composed by five small cities situated on the Ligurian coast. The place is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is worth going any time of the year. We wanted to go there last year but a terrible flood and mudslides hit the territory last October.

One can still see the signs of the disaster, the destroyed houses on the way from one city to another, the photo panels that remind about the terrible event and the work that has been done by the citizens and volunteers to help rebuilding the place. But the cities are up on their feet again and there are a lot of tourists that surely help to restart the normal activities by spending their money.

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I l<3ve Florence

I was born in the capital of Moldova, a small country and a small capital. I lived for a year in Pelhrimov – a city of only ~ 17.000 people. Now I live in the most beautiful city in the world – FLORENCE – a birthplace of Renaissance, trade, fashion and cultural centre of Italy. There are hundred thousand of reasons why I l<3ve Florence.

I coudn’t live in a big city, I felt lost in Prague, Rome, Moscow, Istanbul though this cities are magic places I will always remember. I l<3ve Florence because one can never get boring in this magnificent place, always lots of cultural events, art exhibitions and opportunities to see a lot of hidden historical places. I get my inspiration from Te la do Io Firenze e Io Amo Firenze e Comune di Firenze for current events and expos. I l<3ve Florence because you never stop admiring the spirit of the city, its magnificent look and will never stop discovering its secrets.

P.S. … and one of the most important reasons is lOve, Florence gave me my lOve, my soulmate.

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