When did you visit http://www.couchsurfing.org/ the last time? On a journey when all the hostels where booked? Before you started your travel and you didn´t want to spend too much money? Did you ever even think of surfing the couches in your own city?

When I moved to Hildesheim, Germany for my studies in October 2010 I met a lot of lovely people in the university and I entered a shared flat with a colleague I got to know in my part-time job. But after … read more

Bob can not deal with the malodorousness of the colleague in front of him anymore. Since half an hour he is standing on the highway and the burning sun makes him suffer. The fuel in his tank is turning aeroform and liquid again, the temperature of the bonnet is raised to 70 degree Celsius and dark clouds get out of his exhaust pipe.

The people in his cabin seem not to be affected by all of that because Bob is a Proton 313 and these … read more

This is our bubble. It is round, unique, closed, united and clean.

Somewhere you can find the edge of our bubble. Somewhere it always ends. But don’t think that behind this area something new begins. Behind our bubble is no men’s land.

Now, imagine this entity in any colour you like. If you chose red the bubble would start from the center in a deep red, almost purple, and when you go outwards, it gets brighter the closer you come to the border. At the … read more