CouchSufing report card

After a few months of blogging for helpmemovetosweden.com I finally get to say this:

Hello from Sweden!

We are in Lund, we have successfully rented the apartment and we have spent our first night at our CouchSurfing hosts. I know many of you are interested in CouchSurfing so I've decided I take a few minutes to write about our experience.

Let's get something out of the way first: We loved it! If you are thinking about trying it, try it already! Right, now that that's taken care of, you can hear our story.

We agreed with our host, Erik, that we can come straight to his place after we arrive to Lund. He was kind enough to let us drop our bags and leave them there while we go around and wonder around town and run our errands. We warned him that we will be bringing a lot of luggage, but he insisted it's not a problem. So we didn't hold back: We filled the biggest bags we could get our hands on with as much stuff as the airline allowed us to carry.

In the evening Erik had a surprise for us. He knew we are looking to meet people in Lund so he invited some friends over for drinks. We had a great evening talking about Swedes and what to look forward to in Sweden while sharing a couple of bottles of wine. We had a blast and it was exactly what he have hoped to get from the experience: We met a friendly, open and local people to share an evening with. We have high hopes that we can stay in touch and meet again after we've moved to Sweden.

We brought a bottle of Slovenian wine for our hosts as a thank you gesture. Hopefully they were as happy with us as we were with them!

I realize our experience may have been expectationally positive. Nevertheless I think you should know that only friendly and open people will sign up for hosting strangers from the internet, so you're bound to make friends. Give it a go, and let me know how it goes!