I Stayed on a Stranger’s Sofa in London

Katie Sea
5 min readMar 22, 2020

My experience of trying Couchsurfing for the first time (as a solo female traveller).

Photo by Joyce Romero on Unsplash

“I’ve not done this before”, I said as I entered the flat of a guy living in London, whom I was meeting for the first time… ever.

This wasn’t a date or a hook-up or anything like that. This was my first time staying with a Couchsurfing host.

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Katie Sea

Biology Grad & PADI Divemaster | ex-Producer at a travel startup and accumulated a year's worth of travel experience | Writing whatever piques my curiosity