ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 2月15日 11時21分

Happy Valentine’s day! Photo by @gabrielegalimbertiphoto - Couchsurfing stories /// Rob and Marika – Buggibba, Malta - They fled the city for an island in the Mediterranean. That sentence sums up the story of Rob and Marika – well, if you throw in a case of love at first sight and a highly unlikely cross-continental move executed on four wheels, one-way from Riga to Buggibba. Marika is the one from Latvia. She met Rob one sweltering summer during a two-week vacation in Malta. Rob is from Germany and had come to the island for a master's program after finishing his degree in communication technologies. "It's quiet and sunny and everyone's nice here. When I realized I could come here,” he told me, “I didn't think twice. “ Francesco, that cupid of couchsurfers did the rest. Not only does he host numerous visitors in his own home but, once a week, he also organizes a dinner for all the couchsurfers on the island. It was thanks to him that Rob and Marika met. Something sparked between them and they spent two weeks together – until Marika's vacation ended and she had to go back to Latvia. For a year they stayed in touch, talking and writing using every means that technology put at their disposal, until she made up her mind to move, too. That is how they ended up packing a car and driving it across the whole of Europe. Their endpoint was the little apartment building in Buggibba (on whose roof they posed for this photo, surrounded by those same antennas that had helped them to stay in touch during their year apart). I spent five nights on the couch in their kitchen-cum-living room, their home's center of activity. When I left, we promised to keep in touch, and we have. Not only did I meet up with them in Latvia while they were vacationing there but, a few months later, they even invited me to their wedding. Sadly, I couldn't make it, but not long ago they sent me a photo of their first baby. #couchsurfing #love #couple #valentineday #malta #buggibba

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