thetravelclub

The Travel House gathers many diverse people under the same roof, where they learn from each other, share things, skills and ideas, organize workshops, and get in touch with the local community. The simple CS hosting could never be as effective, intensive and interactive as The Travel House.

Not at all. First, it's completely free, and second, people nowadays don't mingle so much in hostels, they are mostly hidden behind their tablets and mobile phones, or stay in their room (experience of many people we spoke with). In our house people constantly communicate/share, and they really learn what's it like to live with people from other cultures, which you cannot really feel in a hostel :)

Most of the time we ate together. There was a donation box in the house, for the running costs. It worked out better than expected :)

There was a guy from Italy who had walked for 2 months. And a girl who could balance a knife on her nose!

Some of them were rather smelly. They had to be sent to the shower the moment they stepped in.