Hospitality Club’s happy couple
Hooray! A Hospitality Club wedding! Norman Javier, my host last year in Venezuela, and his lovely German girlfriend, Bianca, have just tied the knot in Frankfurt. The couple met when Bianca hosted Javier as he travelled around Europe, crashing with various strangers via Hospitality Club’s online network.
Neither of them signed up to the concept looking for love; they simply wanted to travel and meet people from around the world. That’s why they took thing slowly at first, getting to know each other as friends before romance blossomed. Finally, after many trips across the Atlantic and many, many long-distance phone calls (I remember the nightly fixture when I stayed at Javier’s), they are now officially man and wife.
Although I’ve never met Bianca, last year we exchanged a series of emails. It was Javier’s birthday and she was secretly creating a special, homemade piñata filled with postcards sent from around the world by all the people he’s met via Hospitality Club and Couchsurfing.
How lovely is that?
I say Javier’s a very lucky man. May you both be very happy together. Congratulations!
Photograph: copyright Norman Javier Guaimare
