Sunday, October 21, 2007

Back from a 24 countries Couchsurfing experience

Hey guys !
After 10 weeks of traveling by train, plane, boat and foot, I'm now back in France with a workload of no less than 1800 hours of video to edit from the people I've met and interviewed, here and there, during this summer EU trip.
An amazing and passionating experience to get hosted in the whole European Union, mostly on the last minute -say day- and always meeting great, smart, open-minded people. Different cultures, different languages, different currencies and fashions, religions and philosophies, different faces and different differences. But we're all the same in the end.
An average of 3 days spent in every EU 24 countries visited.
8 categories of people filmed to answer the same list of 10 questions, about the E.U., politics, money, culture, life...
A documentary shall then be edited and produced within the next year, to show the result of this adventure, thanks in a great part, to all the couchsurfers I was hosted by in

Bologna, Roma, Bari, Patras, Athens, Thessaloniki, Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warszaw, Crackow, Warszaw again, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki, Turku, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, Paris, London, Dublin, Madrid and Lisbon...

...before coming back to France on the 23rd of September.
Since then I moved to a new place and I'm now ready to get started with all the material collected, and to get back to you all with a testimony of the real people's people opinion about Europe and us being together.

A very big THANKS to Couchsurfing and to all of you who make this happening every day. Thank you.

aRno Jullien

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