Where to live for a penny. Part 3 (Patreon)

Most likely you heard something about CouchSurfing, but you know absolutely nothing about it. Couchsurfing is such a social network for the traveler. There you can both make friends, communicate with local people, and ask for help with housing. Personally, this is not the first time I have found where to live in any country through CouchSurfing. This is something like a hitchhiking, where you are looking for a person to chat or just help him. Couchsurfing is not made for everyone, you can find yourself in very good conditions, or in unrealistically bad conditions. One must take the so-called risk. If a person agreed to accept you, then you must respect his rules. I was told the story that one day a nudist man came across. And he insisted that you be naked too. If I had such a situation, then I think I would have done it (only if the apartment is not very cold). If you still have not discouraged the use of CouchSurfing, then I advise you to try using it. You do not need to immediately tell someone to sleep in your apartment, you can just meet with a foreigner and take a walk with him or show your city. I am sure that everyone will be pleased if a local person shows and talks about local attractions. I have been using this network of mine not so long ago, but I already understood a lot. I currently live with my parents and I have not the opportunity to choose a traveler. Therefore, I just asked people to spend the night, or just walked around the city. I hope you do not need to explain how to write a request. And right away, let's get down to the stories of what kind of people I came across.

I already have quite a lot of experience in this area. There were a lot of different stories. For the first time, when I sent requests, I could not find absolutely anyone. It was summer, at that time I was in Berlin, with my uncle, and was looking for an overnight stay in 2 big cities, Paris and Brussels. Since I was hitchhiking, I did not know exactly when I would be in the city. In the questionnaire, I wrote that I did not know exactly in what numbers and wrote approximately. And the first person responded. They wrote to me, “I can take you to my place, but there is a problem. I’m moving now and I don’t have anything in my apartment if it suits you, then you`ll write to me.” I had a sleeping bag with me, then I was very much for this idea, the main thing is that there was where to sleep.

I was immediately warned when a person should leave home, and if we are late, then we will not be able to spend the night. Actually, this is what happened. I took too long a path and a very short time. Then I also searched for Brussels and found host when I was in Paris. My level of English was very poor and it was unrealistically difficult for me to communicate both in correspondence and in life. I reached Brussels without difficulty and did not lose the deadlines that I set for the night. This man had an unrealistically large apartment. In addition to us, there were 2 more travelers from other countries. One of them seems to live in Argentina, but as he said, he lived a year in Moscow and knows a little Russian. Therefore, it was not very difficult to communicate with him. The second was a teacher from England. He wanted to teach me English, but how can I be taught if he only speaks it, but I don’t understand at all.

We were a little so tired of our entire trip and decided not to rush to walk very much but to relax. The man who accepted us was kind and sociable. He immediately accepted 5 travelers. By evening, the Frenchman drove up. By the way, about dinner, we had such a condition, everyone who stay in his apartment with him should prepare his traditional dish. The Frenchman cooked on the first day (honestly, I don’t remember what it was. But it was very tasty). The next day, my friend and I decided to prepare my own. But as they say, in their own country it is always tastier. And why? Because in your country it’s easier to get food. So we came to this problem. We could not find all the ingredients and took analogs. Therefore, it seemed to me that the food was not as rich and tasty as ours. But the foreigners liked it, and I was pleased with it.