Julia

On Wednesday, I waited at the busstop for my couchsurfer from Germany, Julia (who strangely sported a very funny Australian accent). After some mix-up with busstops, we finally found each other and our three-day adventure began. As one of my friends had invited us to go see a film with him and some mates, we dropped off Julia's bags and headed straight to town, grabbing a MacDonalds before starting the evening adventure, which eventually led us to the Wirral - the "other side of Liverpool", being, the part of Liverpool on the other side of the Mersey -, where I had never been before. The film was brilliant (go watch Inception!) and the company was very pleasant. We caught a bus home afterwards (after taking the train back under the river) and after the realisation I had forgotten to get the spare matrass out of the storage room, Julia made her bed on the couch and the first day came to an end.

On the second day, we decided to take a lazy day and went to Sefton Park, where we met some interesting creatures (more on that later) and where I got a very pleasant phone call (also more on that later). We then made ourselves some pasta and left the house again, this time to spend a very pleasant evening at a friend's house with a very chaotic, noisy, crowded and down-right delicious Balderdash (google it). Julia left early, I joined her an hour or so later and as we had managed to get the matrass out of the storage before we left and Julia was now sleeping in my room, we had a short chat before wishing each other good night.

On the third day, we left for the City Centre early in the morning (that is, 11am), as I had a job interview and Julia was going to spend the day exploring the city on her own. After spending our day separately, we met up again in the evening and set out for a final night on the town, meeting up with some other couchsurfers for a drink at the Peacock. Which was lovely. This morning I waved her goodbye as she left for the busstop (I was still in my pyjamas, shame oh shame) and that was the end of my first hosting experience, altogether a very pleasant one!