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Salut globe trotteur

Je suis sur ce site web pour rencontrer des voyageur et aussi pour voyager. Car je suis un globe-Trotteur de 45 ans a la recherche d'une globe-troteuse entre 29 et 40 ans.

Une Amoureuse de voyage pour partager amoureusement des expériences de voyage 8 mois par année.

Et ça partout dans le monde mais en toute sécurité. 

Je suis ouvert a me déplacer sur le pouce, (stop) en vélo, ciclotourisme totalement autonome, en train et en avoin .

Je n'aime pas les voyages organisers en groupe de plus que 4 ou 6 personnes. 

Je n'aime pas les voyages organisés.

J'adore organiser avec ma future copine nos propres futures voyages.

Cela nous fais rêver.

Car un couple sans proget en commun na pas beaucoup d'avenir. 

Je cherche une globe-Troteuse qui travaille dans le domaine de l'écriture du tourisme ou autre. 

Et que sont travaille lui donne finacièrement la disponibilité de voyager 8 mois pas année.

J'aime la photo le vélo gym la marche et je suis très jeune retrité de 45 ans mais pas très riche mes libres.

a plus 

Salut tout les globe trotteur et trotteuse

      Excuser moi mais je ne sais pas très bien écrire en anglais. Je suis nouveaux sur se site et je serais heureux de discuter avec vous amoureux de voyage. A j'oubliais de me présenté mon nom est Pierre et je suis un passioner de voyage d'aventure, Mais je ne supporte plus très bien les voyage en solitaire. Et aimrais rencontrer des gens qui comme moi sont des passioner des voyages. Mais excuser moi nous devrons discuter en français. 

Au plaisr de partager mon appartement et notre passion des voyages. 

Hi everybody,

my name is Carme and this will be my first experience with this kind of communities, and I'm sure it will be great.

I choosed BeWelcome because I saw is completely free, unlike other famous site, and because of many other differences. I don't mind paying for a service, but not in the way that is done there.

I've been exploring the web these days and I've found it very nice. I specially like the profile pages, I think they allow people to really introduce themselves. I've found also very useful to see when was last time someone logged in. But in fact, that brings me one question: are this people available? I mean, people that hasn't logged for a year or more has any kind of application that allows themselves to receive a notice in their usual mailboxes? Or this means these persons will never know I wrote them? An another thing that surprises and worries me is the great amount of people that have not filled their profile, should I supose they are not really participating in the community?

Well, questions finished, I am from Spain, born in the east but currently leaving in the north, a very beautiful country surrounded by the ocean (but a very very calm ocean, you should see it). I have not travelled for a while, but is a thing I always loved. Most of my beautiful memmories from youth come from travels I made with really wonderful people to really wonderful places and I hope I will find more of these moments in my most near future.

Nice week to everybody!!

Carme

Hi, glad to see some familiar faces here though I guess they're not glad to see mine. :)

Ilya from Saint-Petersburg (Russia). 1 year in HC, 2,5 years in CS - both hosting and traveling. Right now me and my wife are busy with our 8 m.o. daughter but looking forward to get back to the field ASAP. Still don't understand why do so many people make buzz against CS internal changes - they don't touch my regular CS-activity, imho. Thanks to Polyglot who reminded me about BW with his CS-profile, so here I am.

Let's see how productive 13K+ BW can be comparing to 2M+ CS. Life says that smaller communities are stronger and more sticked to the topic. I'd like to find a good quantity/quality balance here.

Welcome to SPb!

Hi everyone,

my name is Jadra. I'm a deserter from couchsurfing. Had a lot of great experiences there - and hope to continue having them here. I have been living in Split, Croatia for last year or so, but am soon moving to the northen Croatia to start a new family :) And that's all.

Cheers,

Jadra

so cool to see you here Viviane

ingrid

Thanks for your welcoming note Claudia. I'll join two groups you mention. I'd love to find what it is like to travel and to host with a small baby. And also if you come to Croatia, you are welcome to visit us. I'd love to show my kid a taste of different cultures from his early days.

Welkom Gijs! Hopelijk heb je het hier een beetje naar je zin.

Ik merk dat je al druk bezig bent om je plek hier te vinden. Als je met vragen zit: aarzel vooral niet om me te contacteren. Ik heb zeker niet op alles een antwoord, maar kan je waarschijnlijk wel naar de juiste persoon doorverwijzen

groeten,

Frank

Hello all,

I am Loïc Alejandro. French from Provence region. Freelance in web design and graphic design, expert in SCENARI technologies. And I am a nomad. I work with my laptop from anywhere so I travel. I don't have any home.

I have been a CS member during a long time (I am still in CS) when I was living in San Sebastian (basque country). There I hosted a loooot of people and I was one of the most active members of the SnSn CS community.

CU :)

L @_ï c

• Je suis un homme de 55 ans, passionné par les voyages,
   les rencontres humaines et culturelles
  
  Lorsque je ne suis pas en voyage, je vis à  AIGREFEUILLE SUR MAINE en LOIRE ATLANTIQUE.
• En trente années, j'ai travaillé pour plusieurs types de sociétés dans l’événementiel en tant qu’animateur présentateur et j’ai animé, accompagné et encadré des groupes de tous âges et de toutes catégories sociales lors de voyages ou spectacles.
  (Comités d’entreprises – particuliers – mairies – vacanciers - entreprises).   
  
• J’ai beaucoup voyagé à travers la France et l'Europe,  mais également dans  les Pays de l’ Est, le Brésil , la République Dominicaine, Russie, les États-Unis, la Thaïlande
• 
  J'ai visité et découvert la plupart de ces pays, en partant seul, avec un sac à dos, et des "Favelas du brésil aux villages reculés d'Asie" j'ai  fais de merveilleuses rencontres humaines, vu et découvert des paysages magnifiques, vécu des moments et des situations extraordinaires  et "Inoubliables"
  

Hi everyone,

I found BeWelcome yesterday when looking for alternatives to CouchSurfing, and I think this looks very promising.

I am a laidback guy from Spain, and within this country I am half Galician half Catalan. I am a keen language learner, currently involved with Arabic, and taking it as seriously as I can. I love dancing, yoga and sports in nature, as well as cooking and having fun (who doesn't :)

I hope I and some of you will have some unforgettable experiences and personal challenges together.

Cheers, Manuel

Hello all,

I recently joined BeWelcome, and I thought I introduce myself. My name is Michel, 46 years old and living in Leidschendam, a place close to The Hague in the Netherlands. I am a quiet person, and maybe even a bit shy when I meet new people.

I have worked for 18 years at an education office, doing computer work, but unfortunateley I lost my job due to medical reasons, I have rheumatism. For this reason I am a bit limited with intensive activities, for example when I go on vacation.

Two years ago I had an account on CS, but I deleted that, I think CS is too much focussed for people younger then 40 years old, I mostly see events there in pub here pub there, and party here party there. I am more cultural minded, going to a museum, a castle or something like that. I hope to see it being different here.

That's all for now.

Greetings,

Michel

BMO reprezzeeennnnt !!!!!!!!!!

Hi All,

My name is Amar am from Dubai. I am an editor for an online travel company. Love meeting good people, exchanging languages and cultures. Feel free to contact me if you're in the area.

Peace,

A.

hi everybody,

i like the idea of neighbourly help, exchange and contact. since the world has become more connected it seems that i need to extend my neighbourhood. thats how i landed here.

looking forward to have my first guests!

#fare36

Hello, my name is Roman and I live in Valencia. I am about to leave the CS corporation website and start using bewelcome.org for obvious reasons. I will try to see if I can also get involved in things related to the website as I have worked with Drupal for some years and perhaps there is something I can help with.

Thanks for bewelcome.org!

Hello to all!

I'm Alan, English, 32, just joined. I love music, mountians, forests, smiles, wood, and all things good! I set off on an indefinate traveling adventure in november 2011 with no fixed plan. I'm currently in Norway but will be heading to Sweden in about 2 weeks. The next destination after that is Italy via Netherlands... all on foot or hitching so I'll be doing Denmark, north Germany.. after Netherlands I'm not sure but really want to pass through Ticino, Switzerland on the way. I've not done any CS before but have done helpx... Well thats about it for a quick intro.

Peace out for now peoples! 

P.S. Whats everyone so upset about with CS?

Hi everyone,

We are Charles and Siugi, right now travelling the world from Cambrai, France to Cambrai, South Australia, on bicycles. We've been on the road for one year and should reach our destination (very close to Adelaide) end of August. We are now close to Bangkok.

Our website : http://cambrai-cambrai.net

We've been active members of other hospitality networks, both as hosts and guests. These networks have been really useful for us on our way to Australia, so we can't wait to host people again when we're back.

Hopefully see you all on the road,

Charles and Siugi

Hi everybody!

New to the whole "couchsurfing" entity of the world.

Hopes for green pastures and plentiful good vibes, times, and hopefully some actual results with this...

PEACE AND LOVE

:) 

Hi!

I am an Austrian living in Siberia for one year. If anybody feels like spending a few days in a hearty atmosphere in in the middle of Russia, fell free to drop in.

There are many things I can share.

Se you then!

Tobi

Hi I live in Atlanta Ga where its nice and warm even in Feb.  If your on facebook feel free to add Me. And if your traveling to Atlanta let me know.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532240017

Bonjour à tous!!!

My name is bilal french-marocan of Strasbourg ( Alsace - france)

I'm 28years old, i'm a new bewelcome's surfer, i hope to discover the world and welcome you here in strasbourg!!

I like football ( it's my first practice ) , when i can't play football i run and swim!

I like cinema, dance, play billards.

Indeed, i like travel, my project is Indonesia and south of marocoo, and more inchaalah!

Professionally i'm an allarm home systeme dealer.

You're welcome in Strasbourg The capital of Europe, this nice city is very beautifull in December all troughout the year we can visit europeen parlement, and his proximity with germany allows you tu visit germany to !  2in1 in STRASBOURG !! COME on ;)

more informations about me in my profil!!!

your host!

BILAL 

Bonjour,

je viens d'arriver sur le site...

j'avoue de façon "intéressée" car je dois aller à une soirée en mai à Lausanne donc je cherche un lieu où arriver la veille et dormir le lendemain... Alors que je suis de Paris.

je n'ai jamais essayé cette formule de voyage, un ami m'a dit du bien de couchsurfing, mais je dois être trop limitée intellectuellement pour m'en servir et je n'y suis pas arrivée du tout ! Donc, j'ai cherché des alternatives et me voilà...

je verais ensuite si c'est une formule qui me plait sur la durée : je n'ai jamais essayé avant ! :o)

im shahab from iran

after hc and cs i start experience  be welcome

i enjoy  and hosting new people

new cultures and new ideas.

i try to find a different look to the life and change my habbits

Hello, I'm Sapi and I just signed up for beWelcome.

I'm living in Amsterdam since some years and I'm currently working on developing a participatory video project between people in Amsterdam and Manila. I live in a legalized squat and like hanging out at alternative spots in town.

I'm mostly hosting at the moment and I prefer to host people that are interested in similar things as me, which is one of the reasons I'm looking into migrating from CS to beWelcome: I'm hoping to find more likeminded people here, because I'm fed up with copy paste messages of people that obviously didn't read my profile...

So I'll be exploring this space and find out more about the comminity and all you members :)

It seems we have a lot of CS migrants lately!

A big and warm welcome to everyone new here!

What a lot of people!  

Hi everyone!  I am also another refugee from CS - I loved the idealism so was really disappointed by the values in practice.  

I am in London, often travelling in Europe but would love to explore other parts of the world - where I used to travel as a student - with fellow independent travellers.

And of course if you are passing thru London, please say hi.

Bye for now

Rajji 

Be Welcome Bianka, Rajji and Maan,

I wish you all great experiences using BeWelcome.

Greetings to Jamaika, England and India :-)

crumbking

@ Rajji, why not adding a profile pic? Don't worry it's hidden to non members if you set your profile to members only. :-)

Hey, my name is Nuno. I'm born at central Java, Indonesia. but raised verry well at Jogja, Special District in Java. I am quiet. I am very simple person and likes simplicity. I live in Jogja ranging from college to work, probably about 13 years, were living in Jogja and to this day. I get around Indonesia while working on the project. I like to explore nature around Jogja, likes to ride motorcycles in roam. I've got a very powerful principle and I always need someone else in my life so I like to know and build friendships, help each other and sharing also respect will be more important than anything. because I'm an ordinary person and there are still many weaknesses, I really love learning so that any weaknesses can be overcome. I'm a thinker, I really want to know what makes me interesting and I really enjoy the learning expression, character, mind and human nature is actually present in the heart. I love gadgets, networking, computers also technology, my work is also related about it. My activities currently is taking care of my internet cafe and WiFi with strong signal that can be accessed in your home.

Hey Daniel

I see you made the jump too, welcome!

Greetz

Viviane

Hello everybody!

Guido, from Italy.

On BeWelcome since I think 4 years ago, but never actually active. I've been active on CS (http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/guidoz/) for years, but I'm now worried about where CS is going.. so I'm thinking about the "big switch", or at least to finally start using Bewelcome, and, why not, help in its developement.

Hello hello! My name is John and I'm new to this whole situation.  Im looking forward to meeting some great people and hopefully have some local insight on my europe trip in september.  Im in Long Beach Califorina so feel free to come on over...

Hello everybody,

My name is Greta (Greta888) and I live in the near of Kiel, which is in the north of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).

I'm 21 years old and I just got graduation of school. In the beginning of August I have a Voluntary Year of Ecological Service in the near of Lübeck. So I have 2 month left of vacaction. I wanted to travel to Finland on the 6.6.. I already was there with the organisation AFS in 2008/2009 in the area of Seinäjoki. So I will meet my host family and friends, but I also wanted to travel on my own....

It's also my first time with an organisation like this and I'm really excited about it. But I look forward and I think it will be a great time with a much of new experiences, gorgeous people and so on :)

Lovely Greetings

Greta

Hey Roel

Welcome here too!

Another CS-er coming over .

Have fun

Viviane

Hi people,

we are Nora and Sophia, two girls from Germany. We finish school next year and want to go a year abroad.. basically travelling around spontaneously, wherever it will take us:)

At the moment, we still live with our parents, which his why it could be hard to host someone right now. But as soon as we will be living apart from our parents, we will be happy to host travellers, even though we do not know yet, where we will be living by then.

We think this community is very helpful and hope to meet new people and just gain loooots of new experiences;)

Hope to meet some of you soon (our travel will start in about august 2013)! :)

Hi!!

I'm Alexander, hitchhiker from Ufa, Russia. Recently migrated from CS as most of you seem to have done earlier :) Why? I used to surf/host and I like Open Source projects ;)

Looking forward some new experience here!

Kia Ora from Tavis and Judy. Two refugees from the CS nightmare. Looking forward to meeting lots of new and interesting people when we next adventure out into the world.

Eventually when we are settled in New Zealand again we will be offering a place to stay for wayward travellers. Until then kia kaha one and all.

Hi to everybody,

I'm Michele fro Roma, and I'm another ex Cs..but my reason to be a refugee are a bit different ..not offended by cs becoming b corp...but hei people on cs are changing. after hosting many times things are becoming worse everytime i find a lot more people who don't want to share anything about cultures or even simple chatting, but just thinking about finding a roof on their head the host is an optional. Maybe it's only me that i'm thinking about this but i remember that in the beginnign of my experience there there were more genuine and really cool people there. hope bw would be the same of cs in the beginning.

happy travels

Michele 

Hello Kimmay,

Welcome to coach surfing !

Hello, 

I am praveen from India. I love travelling and meeting people, interact and exchange thoughts on different cultures. I love food and always looking for different cusine to try out. I believe the best way one can bond is over food.

I am looking forward to meet people and discuss worldly issues :D 

Have fun Travelling 

hi There..!

My name is alejandro, i'm 25 years old and i'm from Ypacarai, Paraguay. I'm a college student and i'm currently working as an accountant's assistant.

I like to travel and discoverer new places, and most of it...i love making new friends.

I'll be glad to receive travellers in my place while they're here so we can exchange our cultures.

See you soon..!!

xoxo 

Ale.-

Buongiorno! Hello Bewelcomers,

here I am, one more couchsurfer who didn't like to be sold out by Casey Fenton.

I'm looking for a community believing in hospitality as a way to improve the world where we live in. BeWelcome seems to me a warm and engaged group of volunteers far away from the marketing of personal data recently showed by CS.

Hope to get more engaged in the BeVolunteer project too. I'll write the remainder of my story in the profile.  See you around, for example in Lorraine (NE France, where I'm living), and... BenVenuti :D

Big hug,

Dd (a.k.a. pievarino)

Wow! We grow to fast!

I can't follow up to "Be Welcome" you all.

So..

Hi to Gustavo, Nuno, Daniël, Guido, Greta, Roel, Louis, Nora and Sophia, Heri, Alexander, James, Tavis and Judy, Yamin, Michele, Kimmay, Erik, Praveen, Alejandro, Orkney, EcArbre, pievarino and Adam.

greetings to Argentina, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, Russia, United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Paraguay and Australia!

Wow it's getting crowded ;-)

greetings

Manuel

Hi Guys !

Rico, from Nantes. ex-couchsurfing freak who calmed down because :

- B-Corp (of course) : that sucks

- Link with Facebook : that sucks

- "open-couchrequest" : that sucks

So now, as many ex-CS i'm here on BW and i stay active for now on CS, but mainly to stay in touch with CS-mates and communicating as much as i can about BW...

Happy to feel here as CS was 4-5 years ago ;)

cheers guys !

Hi, im new here, I dont like the colour of the website, gray? Any plans to change it?

Bonjour à tous, je suis CS Niçois depuis 4 ans, je m'appele Marc, Du Tiers-Ordre Franciscain, et Anarco-Libertraire.

je suis Peintre, Guitariste electro-acoustique Celebrity by Ovation Model CC57, et D'jembeiste.

Votre projet beWelcome, m'interesse beaucoup et chers amis Voyageurs (ses), ma casa vous est ouverte, 25 m2, couche sur tapis Marocain, Manufacture Royale de Tanger, authentique, avec Day"C" mon Chat, petit balcon avec vue, sur  montagne et Observatoire.

Hi everybody,

I introduced myself few weeks ago. Until that time I try to "wake-up" my local group with meetups. I know other BWers try to do the same.

Then please if you are new here, susbscribe in your local group to keep in touch with the community and why not propose yourself activities to do with the others. And let it know around you  ;)

Cheers

BeWelcome ye all ;)

It's nice to see the growing activity here, so keep on posting, hosting, travelling and meeting :)

My name is Manuela, I am 32 years old. I am Argentinian living in Germany and I love the Csing spirit that now is being transferred to Be Welcome.

I know it will be hardwork to make this network so "smooth working" as Csing, but if we are idealists, we will make it as it happened with Csing.

I am interested in getting to know and learn from new cultures and sharing my home and my place with people i dont know is a way of leaving my confort zones to discover the other person reality.

I will be living in Netherlans from next year and I am already talking with my boyfriend how great it would be to host interesting new people there....

Hope to get to understand this site better and get to know all of you,

Regards,

Manuela

Hey folks, Dan here.  Just moved from CS where I went by Drifter Mistwood.  Very much looking forward to building up the BeWelcome network.  I have no pooter-skills, but will start a cross-country road-trip from NYC to California within the next few months.  Looking forward to meeting as many BeWelcomers as possible en route, and am totally comfortable taking long detours just to meet you fine folks!  When my dates are set, I'll send a message out to BeWelcomers and see if anyone wants to have a 6 week or so BW road-trip with me!  In the meantime, if anyone wants to get together in NYC, just drop me a line!  Thank Jeebus this site exists because I got pretty disgusted at CS's shenanigans of late. 

Hello All

This is Vivek from New Delhi, an entrepreneur by profession & a traveler at heart..:)

I have been pretty active on the other travel forums like CS, HC etc. Got to know of BeWelcome, seems like a nice interface we have here..:)

I have been extensively traveling earlier, not so much now because of work..!

Anybody coming to Delhi or wanting to know a bit about India, give a shout....:):)

Luv n light

Vivek

Hello everybody :-)

my name is Dana, i live with my family (husband and 2 kids) in Switzerland, Bremgarten. We are very new here, have just signed up and i will fill my profile soon :-)

We have surfed and hosted for more years through couchsurfing and had excellent experiences. I hope to meet many travellers also here and explore our beautiful world together.

Families with kids are especially welcome.

Hope to meet you soon

Greetings from Switzerland

dana

Hey,

I am Ziki. I live in Bonn, Germany. It is a very nice and beautiful city. I like to know more people and to hang out sometimes. I would love to know and meet new people around. You can write me and message me.

Cheers

Ziki

hello,

 we are couchsurfing refugees as well, keeping a mostly emptied profile over there, after the recent changes, hoping  "be welcome" will developpe in a good way and be a family friendly organisation.   We changed our profile name , but  CS profile is linked in our brandnew BW-profile. We are 6 at home, we love to travel and  to host, even if it is sometimes complicated with our every day routine, we just started to migrate our  profile, more info about us over there soon!

PS:  there is one thing which makes me feel uneasy as soon as I realized during my first visit browsing profiles to inspire mine:  that  feature that shows profile visitors concretely , cannot really say why, may be  something to do with stalking, but it keeps me from browsing  other profiles! I've seen that there is a discussion about it, hope they will find a  convenient solution for everybody!

Welcome everybody!

I'm thrilled to see more families joining BW now! Winfriend, it would be sooooo great, if you could also transfer some of your expertise and experience to BW! I have always envied CS for their family group... (Member there, too...)

We made a modest start to gather some information: http://www.bewelcome.org/wiki/Travelling_with_family - I'm sure you can add lots more!!!

I´m not THAT new

am a member for about a year now.

I am Heidi, living in Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg - southern Germany.

Born and raised Bavarian (don`t like Oktoberfest though!)

My home is open for people who like to share their view of life, respecting other views.

I dont like "to hang out" but I like to show you around, have tea or wine with you, share my home.

No chance to "crash on my couch" but climb the stairs of the highest steeple in the world! - a bit more stressing out and challenging than just crashing!!

I am also on helpx.com and still keep my rudimentary profile on couchsurfing; it really hit me hard that they made all these changes in 2011 and now 2012 ....

Now I am here! Looking forward to the first couchrequest I`ll get here!!

Best wishes

Heidi

Welcome to BeWelcome, Dana, Heidi, Winfried!! :)

I know you through CS, especially Winfried. I was in a NMW(New Member Welcome) Team of CS with Winfried being there too as a Volunteer.

I must admit, it is a great feeling to see Winfried joining here, he can be a great asset for any community.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see you here, Winfried :)

Please help us build BeWelcome more, and join as one of the Volunteers. We are honoured by your presence here.

Regards,

Ajay.

Hello everyone,

 I am  new to BeWelcome, but I really liked the concept , though didn't host or visit anyone the BeWelcome way, but I have been hosting people i have met during my travel to other countries.

I am taking the step to introduce myself, because I would enjoy hosting and meeting new people. I am really looking forward to host people at my place in Lucknow, India.

 When you visit me, I am open to spend time with you. I can show you around the historical sites and nature parks. So looking forward to some interesting associations.

Best wishes

Alex

hi folks!

i'm mais i live in (dijon) france, i' star t on bewelcome few week ago, since i leave cs like lot of people here , i'm very happy to join this adventure. 

i can't  just resume my self by words , but i can say,

i'm vegan, crazy about bike, i like punk (culture music) , i'm in D.I.Y,i like alternative way of life, i love travel with my back pack , i do hitchhiking  ...

so if some people like this,and  want visit and have talk in dijon, be welcome.

Mais

Hello people,

I joined Bewelcome just to see what options are out there within this emerging culture and I hope to be a part of it for a long time.

I am getting ready to embark on a trip that i hope will mold me into someone new, I want to see the world by volunteering, Bewelcoming and be involved in this way of life.

I have yet to be hosted or be a host, I would love to meet like minded people along the way.

I have moved home from interstate to save a little cash and then travel from S.E Asia around into Erope for as long as I can

Enjoy your free trip around the sun.

Bonjour tout le monde!

Je m'appelle Laura et je suis française. Je fais actuellement des études dans le commerce en alternance, donc je suis un mois au travail (dans une banque) et un mois à l'école. J'adore le contact avec les gens c'est pour ça que j'ai choisit cette voie, maintenant j'ai envie de voyage et je pense que Bewelcome et la meilleure solution! Alors j'attends toutes les personnes qui voudront connaitre les Sud de la France! 

Bon voyage à tous!

Laura

Hi everybody !

I'm another "refugee" from CS.  I was very active there but since their new orientation, I quit about 1 week ago...

I love to travel and meet people from all over the world.  So I need to use more Bewelcome :-)

I used to be host and guest and intend to continue the same way here.

Take care,

Sonia

  After very careful maneuvering and being ever so patient with the butter knife I had in my hand I finally managed to get the evil COUCHSURFING sticker off the side of my house. I used the bumper sticker size Logo next to the front door to help visitors find my house. Never thinking I would want or need to remove it. Symbolic as it may seem it is gone. and so is my relationship with the "children" that run THAT organization. It's playtime over there right now and everyone else suffers. A b unch od twenty-somethings with a lot of money and an elitist mantra absolute. I recipe for disaster. I have deleted my account.

I am ready to help here in any way I can. Even though I live in a very obscure region of New hampshire that ir rarely visited I certainly can keep close via Internet. I do not expect many visitors here. Boston is 75 miles south of here.

I was fortunate enough to travel full time fo six years.  I want to give back.

Time and inclination. Seasoned advice and computer skills. This is what i can offer this community. A fresh start and an eager mind. What can I do to help? 

  For starters we can convert a domain/website I had intended to use (over there) for use in promoting Be Welcome.

http://www.couchthoughts.com  It is intended as a photo journalistic celebration of couch hopping. 

the PHP database is WORDPRESS at the moment, but could be used for anything.

I am hoping for a stronger North American involvement. More media attention. and storming twitter, facebook and google+ with information and a strong message of good intentions.

messages and suggestions very much welcome. ...and this is just my first day!

Hi, my name is Marina form switzerland

I just arrived back home after traveling for over one year through thailand, laos, bali, new zealand and australia it was a great experience and i allready plan new trips, probably smaller for the moment. I thought about norway or iceland to see northlights and the beautiful nature.

i had a couchsurfing profile but i never used it, and now i deleted it.

i hope i will meet here many nice peoples, i m not really able to host anybody at the moment because i live at my dads place. I defenitly will use the site for my future trips and as soon as i have my own place i will host, for the moment i can offer to show people around.

about me i like good books, music, cooking, beeing outside, meet peoples....

Cheers 

Marina

An homage to all those that make this community thrive and burn bright.

http://www.couchthoughts.com 

hand made website by yours truly with Bewelcome in mind. May it bring a smile to your face.

enjoy.

Welcome,orenburzhezky!!!

How are you?

Enjoy and explore beWelcome :)

Welcome to beWelcome, Ville!!

Good to see you here, and to know some details about you.

If you come to India, you can be my guest

Enjoy and Explore, beWelcome!!

Cheers!!

Hi, I am totally new with this host stuff. Just read about it on the newspaper in our country last sunday. I visited CS first as it was what mentioned earlier on the newspaper, but got a little bit confused with the web appearance and then I visit BW and find it more easy to understand for newbie like me.

I live in Bogor west java Indonesia, close to our President's Private Residential. I can show you the house anytime if you visit me hohohoo... not showing the house, because they have army guard in front of the housing complex. But if you are lucky enough you may see him in his car leaving or arriving the house from his work at the state palace.

I love reading people's stories of their trips abroad.. got jealous soooo many times with their experiences.. I travel more on the net than in real life hiks... :( I envy you all for your chance of travelling to so many places but this is all I can do.. at least until now.. travelling by reading your stories and watch your travel pictures..

I may step up with hosting you guys at my place soon before I can make my own trip to  anywhere out of my country. I am willing to learn from you all.

nukenuke, I can relate to your feelings. While I might get to travel more than you, I still see plenty of people around me who get to travel a lot more and who I envy for that.

But then again, I envy you for having a 3yo daughter at home as well. I think I'd trade having kids for a significant number of trips. You see, there is reason why people might envy you as well... :-)

hello guys

my name is ihsan, i'm a college student from indonesia. i live and studyn in bandung, west java. i still need to learn more about BW. so, guide me to be a good traveller.

thanks for this helpful forum! :)

Hey everyone!

I'm Ronald, a civil engineer from Rotterdam, Netherlands, 30yo.

I've been a member of CS for about 3,5 years. Hosted dozens and dozens of people (60+ references, 40+ friends), been active as an organiser of meetings including our annual CSinterklaas party which hosted about 250 surfers here in Rotterdam. So I'm quite familiair with the hospitality concept.

More and more getting fed up with the recent changes in CS (they took our jo... ehm groups!!!), lack of communication from the top (besides the 'thank you for your feedback, it's very helpful' and then ignore it), horrible generic new logo (google+ anyone?) and the fact they move away from hospitality towards just another social network site...

That's why I decided to take a look here. Some of my CS friends have been around for a while already, some moved recently. So, I'm curious about BW, hope I like it!

Welcome to beWelcome, Ronaldde, and Findehase!!

Good to see you here!!

If need any help, please post on an open forum, and/or ask anyone of us by writing to us in our Inbox.

Cheers!

Ajay

Hi Sarah,

Welcome to beWelcome!!

I was on CS for 4 years, here I'm since more than 5 years. I may come to Germany next year so will love to surf at your place, if you visit India you can stay at my place. I think people term me in all the categories you mentioned in the aboove post of yours :)

Cheers!

Ajay

Hi !

I am a CS experienced too, and I do not trust them anymore.

I like hosting people from everywhere in the world, and I love meeting people when I am travelling.

I live in Brittany, in a house in town, whith my husband.

I hope we shall share the best !

Hi all of you!

I'm Luisa (India nickname here) I was born in Barcelona, Spain, and lived there for a long in this nice city. Courrently I'm living in Girona's sourroundings, in a quite place in the forest area, quite wild.

I'm a nurse, a mother, a traveler, a host, I love to make friends... Actually I was BW years ago, but never used, til now, when I fell really Be Welcome member! =) and I'm still CS member, but not for a long, no way!

And..... easier: I'll copy-paste my profile from "another web":

Personal Description

I'm http://www.BeWelcome.org/member as well.
People tell that I am a person with courage, easygoing, enough enterprising, hardworking, dynamic and cheerful, which always try to find the positive side of things.

I adapt like a chameleon to kind of situations. I'm easy to treat if people treat me well, but not if I get a hard abuse.

I've spent much of my life educating my children, of whom I am proud.

Once a year I take a break in my daily caregiver's routine, so I go vacation alone

I love Canada. I've been fortunate to spend some summers in Vancouver BC, Toronto ON, Ottawa ON, Montreal Qc, Halifax NS, PEI and Cape Breton NS, whose greatest pleasure I found is their CouchSurfers. Last but not least, the Buffalo NY CouchSurfings are noteworthy and commendable for their great hospitality.

My Surfers at home have been excellent as well, so I'm happy about that.

Interests

Read, write (finish my autobiography), archery, DIY (I just finished my wood cabin), painting, listening music, go dance, traveling, go sailing, waterski, ski, swim, relax, make new friends, make love, have fun and laugh.

Philosophy

Living to travel as much as possible, to meet new people in my way, crossing our ways as deeply as possible .
And always remembering that monogamy is overrated.

"What does not kill you makes you stronger" J.

We only live once, and time runs over speed, so we should remember :)

*LIFE IS SHORT
*BREAK THE RULES
*FORGIVE QUICKLY
*KISS SLOWLY
*LOVE TRULY
*LAUGH UNCONTROLLABLY
*AND NEVER REGRET ANYTHING THAT MADE YOU SMILE.

Music, Movies, Books

Pop music, rock, country ... music from Elvis and Dylan until to Queens, Bruce, Joe Coker, and so on.

Traditionalists novels and science fiction, classic and contemporary.

Types of People I enjoy

Young-minded people, uninhibited, wanting to laugh, talk and communicate, to share experiences, see sunsets, sunrises or star shower, singing and playing guitar or just listening to the music of silence, sharing our own feelings, sensations and new emotions.

And physically: People who like shower :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I would like to learn English, Canadian accent.
I would like continue to learn to sail.
I'm able to teach Spanish or Catalan.
I'd like to share travelings and I like to share information.
I'd like to learn Telemark.

One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done

Go to Rotterdam, Holland, to put Stem Cells to stop the degenerative process M.S. to one relative.
And, against our doctor's thoughts, they are working!!!

Then, here I am! Hope to meet all of you, BWmates, and thanks to Claudia cause openned this thread

luisa

Coucou !

Je me permets de poster en français, je suis bien plus à l'aise ! Toute neuve sur ce site, toute neuve dans l'échange de services d'hébérgement, toute neuve dans les voyages ... J'éspere rencontrer des gens, des moments, des idées, des choses qui se rapprochent de moi ! Pour comprendre jetter un oeil à mon profil que j'ai detaillé studieusement !

Même si le profil est assez complet, n'hésitez pas a prendre contact, rien n'est figé !

Sinon, je traine dans ce coin, car j'ai un projet de roadtrip avec ma grande soeur  et on c'est dit que le CS était le petit bonus qui nous manquait ! Pour faire court, on souhaite decouvrir l'amérique du sud façon sac à dos et woofing !

A bientot !

Hag

Hi everyone:

Dede and I have just joined BeWelcome.  it seems that a "Great Migration" from CS to BW is underway.

For BW members who are also active on the CS site, our membername/profile is the same on both sites -->  NORTHATLANTA

https://www.couchsurfing.org/people/northatlanta/

we will be completing our BW profile in the coming days, but wished to briefly introduce ourselves and say  

"Joyeux Noël"    I like the fact that this site is based in France.  I hope to improve/freshen my skills at reading French by reading some of the posts written here in French.

by the way, Dede and I love the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur area of France, especially the Luberon region (we stayed in the village of Saint-Martin-de-Castillon for two weeks in June 2012).

should anyone ever visit Georgia and the Atlanta area, we would love to have you visit our home!    -Dede and wayne

Pierre from France, known as PIOIOP on HC and CS :)

In Brazil now

Hey there!

My Name is Igor and I also immigrated from CS. I hope that cosmopolitical hospitality found a new home here on beWelcome and I want to continue contributing to it.

I live in Bremen (Germany) right now and I am looking forward to my first request here. Be welcome!

Igor

Hi guys!

Not really new to BW, I even hosted through it already, but I didn't know this thread existed...

So here I am!

Vincent, 32, from Paris, now listening to "fip" radio on a good vintage stereo - kind of a new hobby!

^^

If you come to Paris, you'll BeWelcome!

See you,

vincent

Hello Everyone,

After being since 2007 in Cs i heard about this new webpage for some people from this last organisation.Anyway got little fed up lately of the numerous changings that make you to get lost plus lately Cs is becoming like a dating website for India/Arabic countries so i hope on this website they consider the idea of ban people when this happens from the first time to stop watching dating sentences all the time in forums or post and avoiding people to ask for a couch to SAVE MONEY and not to meet new people for a nice understanding of cultures.

Now i introuduce myself.This Is Xosé,Im 31 as you can see in my profile and ive been into hosting/surfing places to meet people since 2007.I worked seasonal in summer time mostly as entertainer in summer resorts and anytime i try to find time to get to know new people around.I live in Galicia in West side Spain close to the borderline with Portugal.So anybody coming around dont hesitate to contact for a beer or showing around.My city is in the middle of the portuguese way to Santiago¡¡¡¡

Cheers

"Hospitality geeks" - well, I suppose that's me. More a hoster than a hostee. Also coming from CS because of changes, though I was hosting before that through Travelhoo.

I have hopes of BW but cannot yet properly jump ship as there are difficulties with the BW site (e.g. with the search engine). I live in the countryside south of Edinburgh. It was difficult enough for CS surfers to locate me and I often had to trawl the lists of surfers looking for Edinburgh hosts. It looks pretty unlikely that users of BW will find me, the way searches are organised at the moment.

However, I can hope. BW seems welcoming and willing and where there's a will...

David

i am also new here :(

Hi All New BeWelcomers,

Welcome to BeWelcome!!

Explore more and more beWelcome, and feel free to respond to anyone, or start a thread from your side.

BeWelcome has good members, and members are increasing in large numbers these days. Make it more active, by being active, and this community will be better than CS...Because remember, Members make the community and it is not the other way round :)