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On The Couch (Paperback)
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On The Couch (Paperback)
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Loot Price R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
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Couchsurfing? Surely a sofa would sink on the open sea?
Couchsurfing is a global community of over a million people in 232
countries that offers couches, beds and body-sized horizontal
surfaces via the internet for fellow members to bunk down on for
the night. Couchsurfing is everywhere, from Kazakhstan, where there
are124 empty couches for the daring traveller, to Antartica where
30 cold couches are available. It's free, it's friendly and it's
the new way to travel. Fleur Britten, Sunday Times features writer
is about to lose her couchsurfing virginity. Starting out in Moscow
and taking the Trans-Siberian Railway with a couple of stops in
Siberia and Ulan Ude, she'll then fly to Beijing and travel through
China, crossing into Kazakhstan, followed by Ubekistan. Finding
couches in the unlikeliest of places finally arriving back in
London to play host to other couchsurfers. With the promise of
'couch available' rarely entailing a couch alone, with stories of
meals, unofficial local tours and a family-like welcome, she will
explore the unique couchsurfing community and so-called
'couchsurfing spirit'. What motivates people to invite strangers to
sleep on their sofas? How is it possible to couchsurf and stay safe
and what is it that is it that has made couchsurfing such a
phenomenon? This is an adventure of kindness that will lead Fleur
to meet the most unusual people and visit the most unexpected
places. Combined with revealing, candid images this promises to be
much, much more than your average travelogue.
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