Book description
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.
