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

Thinking about collaborative consumerism as a principle of sharing things of economical value, you quickly get to the point that this idea fulfills its purpose best, when things which are popular but expensive (like, let´s say: traveling) are made easier by sharing things that nearly everybody has (for example: couches). I think you already know now where I am heading to with this.

People benefiting from other people`s roofs or cars, just because these roofs or cars are big enough for more breathers, exist since … 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