Couch Surfing - just an afterthought

So, as I said at the beginnings I want this blog to be informative and interesting for everybody, not just my best friends or family, and I have not yet shared too much generally useful things - apart from a few. But now this change, because in the next entry I will tell more about Sydney, my first thoughts about the place, and etc, and right now, I intend to make a short entry about what Couch Surfing is.

So as I mentioned earlier, I first heard about this community in Andy’s blog. Let me tell you about the basics:

• CS is rather a community than a place to find a free bed for yourself
• it is much better than just finding a bed, since it comes with a friend who is usually happy to get to know you, and hear all about you, and you can ask yourself, so you will have a basic knowledge of the place where you are through the words of someone already living there
• it is free, so it’s really good for your budget as well
• it’s very open minded, and usually the best people get together there, since only curious and good people are willing to let a stranger sleep in their house

It is quite simple isn’t it? Three thing usually happen on CS:

• there are organized gatherings of couch surfers in many places: this is a good place if you want to find a few friends, hear about someone’s journey, etc
• you can host: meaning you can let CS-ers spend a night or two on your couch/bed/floor or whatever
• you can surf: meaning sleeping at other people while you are traveling

So that’s more or less it. Charlie’s couch was the first I have surfed, and as you can see I loved the experience. If you would like to know more visit the website: https://www.couchsurfing.org and read the things there, or get registered, and after that you can find the closest CS gathering to your place and visit it. Or be adventurous and start hosting or surfing. It’s a great experience I think, and also a great community.

So all-in-all thumbs up for CS, and for whoever had the idea for it. Hope it will have a nice long life, and it won’t go into something that it wasn’t intended at the beginnings.