Sintra: A majestic wonderland
A great deal of travellers live and breathe off of their travel guides. The Lonely Planet has become the largest and most successful of these, but…
Francisco, Marcelo & Hugo, Aveiro
Let me introduce you to something I call the Couchsurfing Fatigue Effect. It essentially goes something like this. When a Couchsurfing host hosts a Couchsurfer, they typically…
Oleksiy, Esmoriz
I quite often preach that the best way to use Couchsurfing is to stay with a local of the city or town that one is currently…
Oporto: The unexpected
What to expect from a place like Portugal? It’s simply not a country that gets too much coverage or advertises itself for tourism too greatly, at…
Salamanca: A frustrating beauty
It’s interesting to observe how the architecture changes not just from one country to another, but from within the country itself. The arrival in Spain came…
Márcio, Paolo, Cássio, Giovanna & Ricardo, Madrid
There exists many levels of dedication to Couchsurfing. It’s one of the great strengths of the system – the individuality of it and that everybody participates…
Madrid: A challenge begins
Welcome to Spain. First stop, Madrid. The capital, ideally located smack bang in the center of the country built on the Rio Manzanares. The country of…
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