"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner" (Italo Calvino)

A young researcher on the EU and the Balkans. I am based in Trento University (Italy). Currently in Brussels, Belgium

I strive to change what can be changed, and accept what cannot be changed.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The 1st day I arrived in Sweden, my flight was two hours late and arrived at 1 am. So the bus were over and I couldn't reach the hostel I had previously booked. The only thing I could do was to get to Stockholm Centralen, that I did; I get there at 2.00 am, and as it was a cold but dry january night I planned to wait until the station would have opened at 5.00 am. But there I got found by two other italian students, one of those was in my same plane, who hosted me for the night in a couch 500 meters from my university. so I cannot but be grateful to every couch-host here around.

MY HOSTS:
1) RAUHASATU - Uppsala (SVE)
2) Gurkan Ozturan - Istanbul (TR)
3) Andrea Cavone - Milano (IT)
4) Astrid Sjodin - Gothenburg (SVE)
5) Daniel Källström - Gothenburg (SVE)
6) Bryan Kelly - Dublin (IE)
7) Jeffrey Allen - Sarpsborg (NOR)

MY GUESTS:
1) David Patin (FR/SP)
2) Karla Segura, Alejandra Quintero - Monterrey (MEX)
3) Tomasz Kubien +1 - Swietochlowice (POL)
4) Radi Stoev - Varna (BULG)
5) CATANIA - Palermo/Rotterdam
6) Daniel Källström - Gothenburg (SVE)
7) Gurkan Ozturan - Istanbul (TR)

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and many others, non-registered or yet to come!

Interests

EU affairs, development aid, the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe.

• cooking
• music
• cycling
• kayaking
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

A random sample:
- The Royal Tenenbaum; Little Miss Sunshine; And he died with a felafel in his hands; It's kind of a funny story;
- Novels from the border: Ivo Andric, Enzo Bettiza, Joseph Roth, Marguerite Yourcenar
- Indie rock, world music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've crossed the Venice lagoon by kayak
I've followed the Inn-Danube rivers by bike from Braunau to Wien
I've crossed the Agriates desert in Northern Corsica by foot
I've visited the ruins of an abandoned XVI century town (Castro) in Latium
I've traveled in the Balkans.
I've woken up Rocko Tanica (Italian musician of the Elio&LST group) when he was sleeping in a caravan at the Bosco di Gioia
I've bathed into the ocean in Tarifa and I've seen Africa from there
I've climbed Mount Esja, in Iceland!
I've lived & worked in Eastern DRCongo and seen the hippopotamus in the Kibali river! :)
I've been to a political demonstration in Minsk, Belarus

Teach, Learn, Share

Are you sure you can already cook an Italian pizza and/or pasta? :)

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Poland, Sweden

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