ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 9月28日 12時00分

Photo by @gabrielegalimbertiphoto | CouchSurfing (CS) is the act of trading hospitality, practiced by the over 12 million members of the CS network present in 130 countries worldwide. A CouchSurfer will stay at the host’s house for a day or more, depending on the arrangement made between the host and the guest. CouchSurfers contact each other through a website, which exists in 33 languages and boasts 20 million hits a day. The movement began in 2003, merging a utopian idea of a better world with the web 2.0. CS was created in order to allow everyone to travel and share the widest possible range of cultural experiences. CS is always free, as one of the few rules is that money cannot be exchanged between members. It has become a truly global phenomenon, with couches available in more than 200,000 cities around the world. I traveled around the world with CS for more than two years in order to discover this young, diverse, multicultural, multiracial global community /// Caroline & Ellen, 24 and 20 – Blue Mountains, Australia - Seeing how many of them are gathered around the table, the first thing that springs to an Italian's mind is that their family could form its own soccer team. Sisters Caroline and Ellen, the couchsurfers I spent a few days with in Katoomba, have 5 sisters and 2 brothers.That makes nine siblings in all, plus their mother, a grandson and, of course, the various boyfriends and husbands. It is here that they come when the entire family – give or take a member or two – I slept on a couch in the ‘basement’, a room with a view that belies its name, looking out onto the garden and the magnificent mountains. I was invited here by Caroline and Ellen, whom I had met a number of years earlier. They had been traveling around Europe and spent a few pleasant days couchsurfing in my home in Tuscany. We stayed in touch and, once I was in Australia, I decided to call them up and see if we could do something together. That's how I ended up in the middle of this gigantic family reunion, surrounded by brothers, sisters and their menfolk, all gathered around the table or busy filling each other in on recent events in their lives while they waited for breakfast.

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