Back to hosting!
We have been back from our three-week hitchhiking trip through France, Spain and Portugal for about a month now, and brought back some friends with us. We had a really great time hitching together.
a-flatWhazzup in da house?Back to hosting!We have been back from our three-week hitchhiking trip through France, Spain and Portugal for about a month now, and brought back some friends with us. We had a really great time hitching together. Tomi has left the buildingOne of the hosts is leaving to new adventures. I will not disappear completely but henceforth I shall be merely an occasional guest in this flat. Thank you everyone for making my life worth living. We're on "vacation"We've stopped hosting for a while (there should still be people in the flat though) and are going towards Porto now to see our friends for Cecilia's and Sebastien's birthday. So far we've been more or less lucky, gone 850 km in 7 hours, but on the second day got stuck and ended up in Lyon. It turned out to be a good thing so we can all rest a bit and enjoy the hospitality of Casa Bonita, although Julien and Elsy are not there (ironically they were our guests three days ago when we ate huge amounts of dumpster dived food before leaving for Portugal). It's good to be on the road again! Peace & Love The shock and awe of communal livingProfiles open for hosting for 6 hours. 10 new couch requests! We were not prepared. People started flooding in from doors and windows and we did our best to host everyone. Let's reiterate the point: we were NOT prepared for it. Suddenly the kitchen filled with dirty dishes, food rotted away in most imaginative places, the toilet paper supply was exhausted in a blink of an eye and to top it all we ran out of hot water. Great! The story so farIn November 2011 we hitchhiked to Paris to meet some friends we knew from the European Hitchgathering in Bulgaria. On the way home we received a text message saying: "Hey! So everyone (seriously everyone) is talking about how we're going to go to Berlin and stay at your house and eat sushi. (...) What date should we all show up??!" So we set a date for a weekend in December, excited to see our friends again so soon although we had never advertised a sushi party at our place. The weekend turned out to be three weeks, some people leaving earlier, some joining later, some staying all the time. During that time we experienced something unique: A family-like community made up by people from all over the world that cared for each other. We played games and music, dumpster-dived, cooked together, had ridiculous and serious talks, aaand ate enormous amounts of sushi. We made up to 17 people in one sleeping room + kitchen work. Sadly, this amazing time had to come to an end at some point. As everyone spread across Europe once again, we missed them like crazy and decided to open up our relationship, and our apartment. We had hosted before, but now we wanted to have people around all the time, limited only by the amount of floor space available. In the beginning of January, Tomi moved in and we, the three of us, started hosting one week later. |
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